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[quote=Anonymous]“ Biomechanics and running

As far as biomechanics, men usually have longer legs than women do, meaning they have more room for muscle, as well as a longer stride length, said Dr. Miho Tanaka, an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery and director of the Women's Sports Medicine Program at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Moreover, because women tend to have wider hips, their running stance is not as efficient as a man's is, Tanaka said.

"Muscles work efficiently when everything is in line," Tanaka said. "If your hips are very narrow, like a man's, then your quads are running straight from your hips, past your knees. It's in a straight line, so it's acting in the same direction that you're running."

For a runner with wider hips, however, the "muscles almost have to turn a corner, so to speak," Tanaka said. "It's not like the optimized function for the muscle."

This isn't to say that women with wide hips can't run, but it's one of the many factors that explain why women, on average, aren't as fast as men, she said.”
https://www.livescience.com/59289-why-men-run-faster-than-women.html

The article compares men and women but biomechanics can carry over with comparing women to women. If a 12 year old with skill hits puberty and doesn’t get particularly tall and has wide hips relative to her peers she will likely not be as fast as she once was in a relative sense. The player will not have lost any skill but may very well have lost some athleticism.

Kids who never developed technique skill and IQ CAN be passed by if puberty was particularly unkind relative to her peer group. The speed that could always be counted on is just no longer there and now is just average speed with average skill.

Other things that come along with puberty that can pile on is simple body fat. 
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