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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our son has been playing for mad lax for 3 seasons and we have no complaints other than its a little expensive. While my husband and I have not dealt with Cabbell that often, we haven't had any type negative interaction with him. We do find the coaching to be very strong and our son seems to love the boys on his team from the various schools. [/quote]

Interesting. The boys on my son's team are a large part of the reason my son may not go back after three seasons with Madlax. And his coaches definitely favored one kind of player--and it's not the kind of player--or kid--that my son wants to play with. I"m sure this is too general to apply to all Madlax teams, his particular team just didn't come together well. [b]He'll be looking for a team in the fall where the bad habits of arrogant players are coached out of players, not encouraged.[/b][/quote]

Well stated and good choice.

As parents we need to model the behavior we want to see and allowing, nay, even encouraging, continued contact with bad behavior sends a message to our children that this type of behavior is desirable.  There are lots of good teams out there.  Choose the one that does the best job showing your child what it means to play well on a team.  We did. This was a few years ago when there really was only one travel team in town.  Madlax.  We switched when our son said that although he really liked lax he wasn't sure he wanted to play any more.  We dug deeper and found that he didn't like his fellow players or their behaviors and he ~really didn't like some of the behaviors of the coach/es.  This from a kid who started every game, got a lot of playing time and was kinda the fair-haired child on the team.

Our son ended up playing on a travel team with a lesser win record but a nicer group of kids/parents.  Son then decided he wanted to play in college.  We thought, 'oh, criminey, what did we do?' since we didn't see the pipeline with the relationships that we needed between coaches/schools.  As it turns out, our son still had a choice of D1 and Ivy teams although we had to work it a little harder to make it happen.  But in the end it all worked out and he is playing happily at his first choice, an Ivy.  He will graduate next year and has had a wonderful experience.  My wife and I did what we thought was the best for our child and we are happy we went with our gut to move our kid before he lost his love for a sport that he, well, loves.  Our advice to you is to do what is best for you and your family.

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Two addenda to my prior post.  First, 'practically'.  He started practically every game.

Second, it is a completely different environment now than it was when we first began this odyssey.  So don't sweat when I said we had to work it harder.  It is a different lax world now in this area with a plethora of choices.

Oops is getting old enough now that we soon will be considering travel teams.  There are so many options these days, unlike the past, and, who knows, the kid may not even end up liking lax all that much or want to play in college.  But he idolizes his older brother so you can guess what trajectory we're on.  In any event, we've decided not to sweat it.  Unless we see that he needs the LD program at JH, we will keep encouraging strong academic performance over athletics so that Oops can go to the best school he wants, and then we'll make the lax thing work.

Good luck to all and we'll be seeing you on the fields.

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