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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your DD is a bubble kid. She would have to significantly improve her skills to be noticed. [/quote]

Can you explain what a bubble kid is? You mean that she’s on the bubble and could be good or bad, or that she’s in a bubble…?[/quote]

Not PP, but we use the term a lot. It’s a kid that is good at the sport, but not really good. So there are lots of kids with similar skill, so on the bubble of either being a starter or on the bubble to even make the team. [/quote]

I don't think that sounds like OPs kid. To me it sounds like OPs kid knows the sport and is probably very coachable, but something is missing. It may be game day performance, it may be athleticism, it may be size. Those kids make team and usually play a lot early in a season, but they end up losing playing time as the more athletic kids start grasping the system better or as the coach realizes that what they see in practice and what they saw in tryouts isn't translating to games. The kid is still probably a solid off the bench player, but they aren't the coach's focus. My DD has definitely been here. I think the options are move down a level and start or move up a level and know they'll be a bench player. Being in that in between position just kind of sucks [/quote]

Thank you, OP here and you and a few other PPs have put together a few different ideas that help me understand the situation. I think what happens is that as my DD received diminishing attention in early weeks, her confidence slowly goes down. She is small for her age and young for her age bracket, so depending on the season (fall, spring/summer travel), the age/size difference is more apparent. I think she also doesn’t have the big personality that coaches are drawn to. Her specific sports are ones I associate with fairly peppy, chatty, bold girls and her coaches are pretty big and loud and drawn to those types. My DD is one of those kids that lets her actions speak for themselves…but it’s not a timed sport and once she starts getting benched, she basically is invisible to the coaches.

I’m going to work with her on early season tactics to prevent the midseason slump, and also think about the leagues she’s in and what might work better for her. At some point this isn’t about sports but about how she enters new situations and sustains relationships and growth. I don’t want her to one day become invisible to a professor or boss![/quote]

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