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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The sessions on the girls’ side appear to be well thought out and merit based. Good players will be cut due to positional needs of the roster. The teams should be very competitive next year. [/quote]

What does sessions being merit based mean?[/quote]

Merit based = based on skill[/quote]
Truth is it is very hard to determine skills and merit from a couple of large ID sessions. These sessions tend to favor players who are able to be on the ball the most and the physical ones. When a coach knows a player and has seen their body of work over time, they know about their work ethic, how they treat teammates, how coachable they are, how their parents behave. [/quote]

Not really. My kid is rail thin skinny and not the biggest and he was on the ball constantly--and shields it extremely well.

Some of the bigger kids were dribbling into the ground, not completing any passes and getting knocked off the ball.[/quote]

But this is in your eyes. Coaches might think otherwise.[/quote]

Oh definitely.  And they don't always select for the same type of players.  And there are team 'needs' too.  I'm very astute at picking talent (not talking about my own kids either--though I'm very critical of them). I played and was raised as a coach's kid. I have an 18-year old and the kids from young age that he played with and against--and many on very low teams early on--some are DC United Academy, Chicago and D1 rides now.

A lot of those kids were overlooked in the early years. [/quote]

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