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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]US Youth Soccer has asked its State Association Presidents to provide feedback on the impacts that occurred when changes were made from a school year to calendar year, and what they’d foresee as impacts if we went back.[/quote]

It will only cause more kids to quit — I don’t really have a Preference between the two, but the change itself was incredibly disruptive and shouldn’t happen to the same generation of kids again.[/quote]

Kids are leaving soccer and not coming back. [/quote]

I left when I was 14 and came back to it in IMs in college, and enjoyed that a lot more, but don't regret leaving when I was 14 - I wasn't big or fast or skilled enough as a late-bloomer to compete at the level that I wanted, and was destroyed by kids my age  (some of who went on to play at UVA in its heyday, etc.)  If kids don't come back, why does it matter?  Like piano lessons or ballet.  it's something you learn, and learn to appreciate later in life.[/quote]

I think that one of my kids who is also a late bloomer will have an experience similar to yours. However, as a governing body, US Youth Soccer should want to keep as many kids playing soccer as possible. From a health perspective, physical activity should be a regular lifelong habit. The system should not be set up to drive kids out because soccer isn't fun or because they are too late to puberty to compete. Maintaining soccer as a fun and desirable sport encourages the best athletes to choose it (benefiting the elite) and promotes fitness and physical activity for players of all levels. [/quote]

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