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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS’s rec soccer team is really good, but they add players if there is space on the team. Maybe the friend’s team’s roster is full with the kids from previous seasons. [/quote]

Nope roster is not full, registration just opened. [/quote]

Different leagues have different rules on team selection. From what I have seen, most teams allow returning coaches to choose to keep players from previous seasons on their team. If the Coach chooses to keep all the players from a previous season, then they will not add any new players. I have seen this in basketball, soccer, and baseball.

Coaches might also be allowed to say that they will not take a player back, my husband coached baseball and told me he could say no to a player but that he never did. Our team ended up with a lot of kids who had issues that made them hard to coach and the team to manage, mainly because other Coaches had the players before and choose not to have them on their team again.

DS ended up on a soccer team that was short players, they had 10 total while all the other teams had 14-15. It turned out that none of the kids on DS team had played in that particular league before. It was a nightmare when we started playing other teams where the players had clearly all played together before. The other teams had more subs and had a better idea of how to play as a team then DS's team. It was an awful experience for the boys and the vast majority of kids on that team did not play the following season. DS gave it another go and ended up on a team with some kids he knew, it was a night and day difference. DS was 9 when this happened.

We have neighbors whose boys started practicing 2 weeks before rosters were sent out. The Coach knew he would be able to pick up the players he wanted from previous years and started holding practices for the kids early.

So yes, rec sports are rec sports. They don't have the time demands, paid coaches, and the like that travel sports have. But they are competitive and the Coaches who have been Coaching from the start like to keep their players together and will not keep a kid who was a problem on their team. The Leagues that allow this, give the Coaches the ability to do this, probably because it incentivizes people to return and Coach another season. Finding volunteers is hard. [/quote]

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