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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it makes you feel any better, my daughter was straight B teams until she tried out for Capital and made blue. She tried out the first time in fourth grade after moving gear and playing one season in rec. We didn’t do anything crazy, like get a personal trainer or strength and conditioning coach. We did spend a little on some one-on-one lessons (a lot more in high school though). However, never more than once a month when the weather was warm. The biggest thing we did. was watch her go through puberty.  She is now a division, one lacrosse player, while many others that were in the same club, and on the A-Team in middle school are either not playing or at a lower level. There’s actually more opportunities with boys to do this since there are so many more teams, and moving around is the norm.

Your child will rise to the level, more or less, where they should be at. If I was to recommend anything, it is one on one position specific coaching lessons. Not only did they get better with that type of attention, but it is its own CrossFit workout.[/quote]

I second this. ⬆️ - Also a D1 lax parent. My daughter was on B teams until high school. I have seen WAY too many kids start too intense too young and burn out. So much burn out and injuries by the time they get to high school. A lot of them ended up quitting or dialing way back in high school.

We just had our daughter play seasonal rec sports and camps, stay active and practice her wall ball. We noticed the skills gap beginning in middle school and had her join a lax club at the end of 6th grade and occational 1-1 lessons starting in 8th grade. And she was recruited D1 by the end of September her junior year. If she is athletic and likes sports the rest will fall into place. [/quote]

So interesting.  Based on all of the stories I have seen it is rare to go from B teams to A teams.  To me, it seems like you get on that track and it’s very difficult to get off—definitely at the same club.  In fact, at Hero’s, they seem to often intentionally allow a move up just to have some evidence it can occur to not totally deflate the White kids and families.  We have a few friends who started on White and that remained their destiny and same for their teammates.  Maybe they could go to the A team of a lesser club.  And, as the OP said, starting on the B team puts the kids at a disadvantage.  All the good coaches and resources and attention go to the club’s A team.  They are able to do far more advanced things more quickly with the better talent, so the kids develop faster.  The kids and parents are more serious/intense too, being on the A team, and the B team is more chill about everything.  When the A and B practice side by side, it can be really evident.

I’m sure at puberty things can change but elite clubs have their teams pretty set by 7th/8th grade.  Elite athleticism definitely can break in but elite athleticism is uncommon.

I have a kid close to yours’ age and we played up on a B team to start the journey and then moved to the A team on grade level.  Night and day experience.  I have not seen one B team kid move up or advance to the skill or athletic level where they should have.  Our A team would likely beat or be competitive with the older B team.  I don’t think the same-age B team girls will have much of a chance to make our A team next year because we are developing at a way faster clip.  That said, all of these girls are pre-puberty.  But we do have a friend whose daughter is on an elite 2027 team and she said that a good chunk of those girls have been on the team since they were little kids.[/quote]

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