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[quote=Anonymous]Op here. Thanks to people who said kind things. I haven’t found a general forum like this in our area (and still miss DC / like “checking in”) so I post here, albeit just found the soccer forum so hadn’t read or posted on it before.

She is very physical / aggressive. She’s not the biggest on the team at all (and probably won’t be tall given my height). She does have very good field sense and her teammates seem to listen to her / value as she’s yelling out instructions from her spot (ie “Sara, mark #14; Caroline, watch the right wing…). She does a good job with things like switching the ball from one side to the other or mixing up long kicks vs short passes so does have a lot of strategy. We try to go to a few Stanford women’s games a year and she likes to watch recordings of their games too, which I think helps.

She’s not on ENCL. The league plays in NPL but not at this age. The highest level is pre-NPL but she’s moving to the 2nd highest (“premier”). That said, the players from the two highest teams do a lot of practicing and scrimmaging together and players across teams will sub at each others’ matches / tournaments.

When she originally thought she was invited back to the 3rd level this coming year (out of 4  teams) her reaction was “oh yay, I made a team and I get to keep playing.” Honestly I think getting to have fun playing and continuing to improve are her goals. Especially since we have a younger daughter and we want to have time / energy to support her interests as they become clear I’m happy our 11 year old is playing at a level that requires her to work hard to be competitive and is showing commitment and grit but I’m also happy it’s not all-consuming.

I did look up ENCL (which I’d never heard of). I had seen before that about 3-4 of the Stanford women from our area played for the same town (not where they grew up) and now it makes sense to me since that’s an ENCL team. We play that club and, although matches are sometimes competitive, it’s clear that club and one other north of us are pretty consistently the best in the league. [/quote]

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