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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would recommend starting a year early if possible. Just go out to the free spring tryouts to see. But if you wait another year, you are at risk of getting put on a the B team or the C team, believe it or not, it could be years before you climb up to the A team.  You might not mind that now, but after a few years of it, it might get old.  If you decide to wait another year now (and do not go out to the spring try outs), but have second thought over the summer, then just come out to practice and ask to start right away in the fall time.[/quote]

Just to counterbalance, I'm the PP who suggested holding off, and this was not our experience. Kids switched to travel at 8 and 10 and made top teams. Plenty of their teammates were also new to travel at those ages.[/quote]

PP Here, that is good to hear and that is the right thing to do.  Our club seems to have a longevity over talent policy.... i.e., the longer you are with the club, the more likely you will end up on the A team.  The coaches always seem to place most new kids automatically on the B team.  We have folks we are very frustrated on the B team and we easily have a 30%-50% turnover rate on the B team.  All the players that got in on the ground floor( for 2013s and 2014s), except 1, are on the A team now. And all the players who joined a year later, except 1 are on the B team.   [/quote]

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