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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm waiting for the parents of preschoolers/babies to infiltrate this thread with their outrage. 
Your sister is right.  Your nephew can't miss this tournament.  [/quote]

The thing is, he really can, or its at least a possibility he can. AND continue to play the rest of the year, especially if the kid and parent give the coach plenty of notice. That's the key there, LOTS of notice and the kid continues to put in big effort at practice and other games as if he were still playing. I have 2 nephews in D1 football and one in D1 hockey. Their parents definitely had interesting values (sports over academics for one) but family was key and they missed nothing like this for sports, and honestly, it was so ingrained into them that they would honestly be upset to miss things like this almost as much as missing a tourney weekend. But we have that kind of very close family too.

In some cases, yes, missing the tourney would be bad news for the rest of the year, but to act like that is the case all or even most of the time is silly. There are plenty of coaches at even the highest levels that "get" that team members are members of families and society too, not just their team. Notice and communication are key[/quote]

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