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[quote=Anonymous]Our club basically won’t move kids down until U12, so it’s very easy to get trapped as spaces just don’t open that frequently. My kid is a Q4 birthday and so started travel a year after many others at our club did (rec in our local league is SY based); as a result (in part), he started on the third team as they were really only doing open tryouts for the 3rd & 4th teams (though I have no doubt that extreme talent would be handled differently). He lucked into a temporary bump up to the second team during futsal season. They split the teams and a few kids decided against participating (non mandatory for our club); he got bumped to the 3rd or 4th team (which was really half the 2nd team) and they stressed repeatedly it was only temporary for futsal season. Well futsal season showed us that the 2nd and 3rd teams were close to comparable because of how they treat the teams and my son went from top handful of 3rd to top handful of 2nd immediately; only real difference is one kid on 2nd clearly superior skills wise but tiny. After futsal season, all talk of temporary disappeared. Simply sent a spring schedule for 2nd team.

All of which is to say, I saw first hand how easy it is to get trapped when I had absolutely no idea and would never have complained. Just lucked out. You know, so absolutely don’t feel bad about exploring options.[/quote]

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