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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry the coach lied.  Many coaches are really terrible at this age - any coach who thinks winning is important at age 11 (select team or not) has a screw loose and is getting some sort of weird validation from being a winning coach instead of developing athletes and setting a good example for kids.

[b]My only advice is to find a more casual, local-only travel team that’s not trying to be “competitive” (I take it that’s what you were trying to do, but don’t give up because of one crappy coach!). We have always sought out teams like this for our son, and I thi[/b]nk it has only helped his development as a player, teammate, and quite frankly as a person.  He is in high school now and nobody knows or cares who was on the “elite” team three or four years ago.

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My experience is that the better the team, the better the players and the more everyone plays. One of our kids was just a very natural athlete from elementary through high school and they tended to play for very competitive teams. Our younger is just not their sibling and they've played on a wider range of teams.  YMMMV, but it's the worst teams that have the biggest skill disparity that leads to kids not playing the ultra competitive teams tended to play every kid because they were all really good [/quote]

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