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Also if you have to spend that much time and money too makes the team it does not look good for the future. At some point you max out your technical skills. A good athlete will beat a good technician if the technician does not have the athletic skills or size. The top 5% of athletes(including size) can easily beat the of 90% of players without good technique. [/quote]

While the point is good that athletes can beat out technical players in middle school, its not accurate as players get older and sports get more competitive with a smaller pool of players.  Once you get above rec leagues, there is a minimum amount of athletic ability and coordination required for almost all sports.  If you can't meet that standard, you won't be playing the sport for long. The inverse of your statement is true at older ages -- the top 10% of players with good technique can easily beat the 95% of good athletes, provided those skilled players meet the minimum athletic standard for their age and competition level.

Athletic ability always maxes out first.  And even before it maxes, it takes months or years of work to improve fundamental athleticism.  Technical ability never maxes, there's always something more to learn.  As a result, top level sports teams often value consistency and performance much more than raw athletic ability.

At the MS level coaches will sometimes take the athletic ability because they believe they can train your DC to become a good player, or because your DC can just run through others on the field. But you won't see a successful middle school team filled with only athletes. In every MS sport, there is a mix of players-Athletic & Skilled, Skilled & Acceptably athletic, Athletic & Unskilled and not athletic & not skilled.  The more popular the sport, the less likely it is that the last two groups make a team. Since cost limits sports participation, the lowest cost sports usually have the most players competing for spots and the more athletic and skilled you have to be to succeed.[/quote]

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