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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  DD was not fouling anyone or being overly aggressive.  She takes good sportsmanship seriously, for example, if she gets tangled up with another player and the other player or both of them fall down she helps her up and asks if she ok.  She really is an exceptional athlete, I'm not just saying this, I've been told by coaches and parents for years.  I think the parents are responding to the fact that DD can out run their kids and steal the ball away from them and score.  So they were heckling her pretty badly.  This has never happened before where she was being called out by her jersey #, I've hard it in the past where they will yell at the ref saying that play wasn't fair or whatever, but it was never directly at her and never personal like it was last night.  She has always been able to ignore that type of stuff in the past, but last not was different, it was vicious.

I'm saddened and surprised that people automatically assume its her fault somehow, instead of being appalled like I was that grownups are acting this way at a child's game.  [/quote]

Okay, but I have three kids who are in lots of sports and the only time I have seen this extent of upset from parents is when an otherwise talented kid was elbowing and pushing players down and the ref wasn't calling it. The parents were mean and wrong but they were reacting to being worried for their child's safety. I have never, not in many years of watching many different kinds of sports at higher levels and lower levels, seen parents act like this just because a child could "out run their kids and steal the ball away from them and score." Never. No one is saying your child is doing anything wrong on purpose but you seem really defensive to a fault.[/quote]

SAME. OP, your story does not ring true. [/quote]

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