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[quote=Anonymous]10:32 - re: playing on a lower color team.  It kind of depends.  We played on the "F" team last year, which ended up being the "E" team in terms of season record.  During the tryouts for the second year, 4 girls stayed on F, 2 girls moved to E, and 4 girls moved to the B and C team.  1 girl was cut.  Similar results on the E team.  So there is movement available if you can stand out on a lower team. If you get noticed by a higher team, you can get asked to sub in for games when they have players absent.

As for playing on the F team, I feel like the level of training was in general better than rec or ADP, in part because of 3 weekly practices vs. 1-2 and a year-round training schedule.  Plus all the coaches are pros, and some are VERY good.

Games were tough because most of the clubs do not have 6 teams at the same age like ASA does, so our 6th team was often playing some other club's 3rd team.  We got creamed in most of our first season of games.  In our second season, we won about 1/2 of our games, and the losses were close.  We did ok in tournament play.

My daughter was the one who got cut, so we switched to ADP.  Things I like about ADP: the cost - around $600/year vs. $2,400/year.  Big difference.  I like not having to give up all my holiday weekends for tournaments and I like not driving to Ellicott City or Haymarket.  I like not having to get to Long Bridge park by 4:35 on a Monday for skills training.  They're more casual about uniforms for games and practice, which is nice if you're scrambling to get out of the house with all the uniform parts.

Things I don't like: ADP schedules things last, after rec and travel, so you can have more conflicts with other activities.  And the training can be uneven depending on the coaches you get - it's 1/2 volunteer coaching, 1/2 pro coaching.  Teams are supposed to be evenly matched, but they do try to keep existing teams largely intact, so the teams that played together the year before have already gelled and a new team can have a hard time beating them.  And the commitment level of the kids can be lower.  Travel kids are mostly pretty committed.[/quote]

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