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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d suggest helping your daughter learn to speak up. I’ve coached rec league soccer for the past few years and it can be really confusing and chaotic as the coach.

In one game, I accidentally sat one kid for 2 quarters and let someone else play the whole game. It was a completely honest mistake—the other team was short players so we loaned some of ours, a few kids got hurt and had to come out, and they were all yelling and horsing around on the sidelines in the insane way that third graders do and I just got confused.

Nobody said anything, so I discovered my mistake at the very end of the game. The kid who sat out was quiet and well behaved so I kind of forgot about them. Again, completely my fault but I reminded everyone next time that they should always speak up if I make that kind of mistake. And even if I don’t make a mistake, they should speak up and let me know that they’re eager to play (or not).

I have a few kids on my rec team who are there because their parents make them. Those kids hate to play (and sometimes are very quiet). They’ll ask if they can NOT play as long as they play the first two quarters so I’m trying to accommodate those kids too.

All of this to say that it’s a great chance to teach your daughter about self-advocacy and to articulate her needs and wants to a coach.

And as a coach, I hope you give the volunteer coach the benefit of the doubt!

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This is a really good point PP. Thanks for making it. Have definitely seen situations where good coaches make honest playing time mistakes in rec. There can be a lot to balance and it definitely happens unintentionally sometimes (it also sadly happens intentionally sometimes).[/quote]

The mistake is easy to make with big teams and rosters -- say, 11v11 soccer with a roster of 16. But with a roster of merely 5 for 3v3 basketball, giving one kid 300% of the playing time of another kid is most likely intentional. It is hard to mess up by such a massive margin.[/quote]

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