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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s the kid, not the age.

-Youngest in my class. Varsity all 4 years of HS and then D1. [/quote]
This may be true for the phenom, but not for the kid on the bubble.  It's also an issue for the pipeline.

I have a 9 yo who adores basketball.  She's pretty good, but was born the day before the AAU cutoff.  That made her the absolute youngest at tryouts.  She was still 8 yo in a gym with kids who were mostly 9, with many only a month or two from being 10 yo.  It showed in her size, attention span and coach ability. She's still wearing girls size 7 jeans and a size 13 shoe and not yet 50 lbs.  There were kids in her group who were into puberty and easily over 5 ft in a size 14 with a size 5 shoe.  She played hard but looked really little and young--like the baby sister of the girls she was trying out against.   I don't even know if she would have made the team because she was so frustrated at being outmatched and pushed around that she wouldn't go back for the last day of try outs.  I was frustrated for her.  Unfortunately AAU is the pipeline for improving in basketball in our area and I suspect that it's not going to work out for her.  If she'd been born 30 minutes later she'd be a grade down and I really think it would be an entirely different outcome.  She still wouldn't be the biggest, but she wouldn't have as many girls who were so so much bigger and already well into puberty.  Perhaps it wouldn't matter if she was a kid who would go through puberty eary, but she's not.  She'll probably shoot up around 13 yo given her family history.  By then club and travel teams are established and kids will have years and years of skill development on her.  [/quote]

Keep trying. You basically admitted she wasn’t ready (attention span and coachability). This is one of the reasons I don’t stack rank my kids against others on a team - it’s more than just ability. Your daughter may be ready for that level of play next year (of the year after).[/quote]

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