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[quote=Anonymous]To respond to others, I will repost something from the very first message I wrote on this post (see below).

[quote=Anonymous]We've been doing club and she is pretty resilient to rejection. We talk about how clubs give preference to their returners, especially when the skill level is comparable. We talk about how tall girls may make a team, despite lower skill level. She knows that she needs good skills to compensate for her height. She went through tryouts and she understands why she gets cut by certain clubs and why she can still play for her club. Her entire understanding of tryouts collapsed during the HS volleyball tryouts. A few taller girls made the team despite lack of skills. Pretty much expected, even though club players started being cut. Eventually she got cut herself - a decision she was relatively comfortable with. Until she learned that a girl who got cut earlier in the tryouts made the team. I don't want to make this post about the other girl, but I need to offer some context: she is shorter and her skill level is much lower than the skills of any of the girls who got cut in the last day of tryouts. [/quote]

I thought I made it clear that my DD successfully handled multiple rejections in the past. She plays club for several years and didn't make it into some of the top clubs she tried out for. But she knew that clubs show preference for their returners and for taller girls (even with lower skill level). What she didn't expect was JV to pick on her position a [b]shorter girl with less experience and skill level[/b]. And we are not talking about any of them having any advantage as returner player. Stop telling me that this is normal. [/quote]

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