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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD plays for an elite team in the 7th grade.  There's probably a couple of girls that can be replaced on that team.  But for a new player to come in there and carve out significant playing time, she is going to have to be something special.  That player is certainly not coming from rec.

If your DD wants to make the jump to a club from rec in the 8th grade, it can be done.  It just won't be for a top club.  [/quote]

My daughter's team had this exact thing happen.  Plucked a girl they saw playing on a rec team.  Good players/athletes are hard not to notice.  [/quote]

especially true of goalies.  [/quote]

Not sure any young goalie is going to look like all that unless they are getting privately trained.  It takes time for young goalies to be competent in goal.  Maybe 4th grade if they've had a couple of years of goalie-specific training.  And then you start to see some pretty good (or at least markedly better) stuff from goalies come 5th/6th grade.  I would think you'd only grab from rec if you actually needed a goalie or backup.  Otherwise you go with what you have and try to help them improve, at the younger ages.

I'll be curious to see at tryouts this summer what goalies show up and if there's actual competition for the position.  I think each team tries to hold 2, right?  Have you all seen more than 2 goalies show up for a team tryout in elementary school years?  I think the times they are a changing and we will start seeing more goalies at tryouts than slots. That said, there's a barrier to entry for younger kids to try it or come from rec because you have to show up to the tryout with all the goalie gear.[/quote]

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