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[quote=Anonymous]Kids can be coordinated, relatively big and/or fit at any age, and that will help in most any sport (gymnastics may be the exception where small is better).  Kids who understand how to be appropriately aggressive in sports where that is part of the game will appear to be "better" than kids who still have not figured that aspect of the game out.

Really with girls I think you are going to have to wait until they are 15 or so to get an understanding where they are going to be with their size, speed, quickness and coordination.   My daughter plays college soccer now.  Over Christmas break she had some of her old club soccer friends over to the house and they were looking up kids from their 11 year old team.  Of that particular team of 14 girls 7 went on to play college soccer and 1 runs cross country.  But that was the club's "B" team.  Of the "A" team 1 went on to play in college and 1 plays lacrosse.  Kids were just at different stages of development.  By the time they were sophomores in high school things were pretty well set in terms of athletic ability.  [/quote]

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