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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depending on the club, if you are looking for kid to improve and teach the importance of getting better = moving up, go with club B.

We did this.  From top team at a losing club to mid-tier at a highly rated but large club.  My kid moved up.  She was unafraid of starting low and rising.  I gotta hand it to her - I really respect her for this attitude.

Way too many people just want to be on a top team - even if that team is a loser team - because they like to think of their kid as awesome.  T[b]he truth is, it's better to join a top organization and rise than it is to be with an organization that is irrelevant at the top.[/b]  Even if you never make it to the top of a top organization, you'll prob be still pretty damn good because in a large club, providing that they are respectable, has certain standards.

In any case, it's a good lesson for kids.  I agree with coaching better at top levels but at some point it's not about the coach - it's about the kid developing themselves.  That's a lesson that is more valuable than winning or losing a game.[/quote]

You're assuming that there is any organizational continuity between the top teams and bottom teams at large clubs. The D team is not practicing with the A team. The A team coach will not even know your kid exists. The technical director and any age group coordinators do not care about that team. When you kid shows up for tryouts the next year, they are already labeled. Meanwhile, smaller clubs  care about their teams and if the team happens to be one of their better teams, they will get attention from the TD. They aren't automatically slotted (can't have the C team rising above the B team), so they'll play as high as they are capable of playing both in league play and in tournament brackets [/quote]

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