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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't agree with "don't play club until 7th or 8th grade". Most good players start playing club in 5th grade at the latest. You want your kid to play with and against them. If you stay with rec or lame travel teams, your kid won't get better. You also want better coaching sooner.[/quote] This is correct - kids get much better playing w kids w good stick skills and hopefully preventing or fixing bad habits.[/quote]

Have the "stick with rec league" people ever seen a rec league game?  Get good coaching early.[/quote]

Our "lowly" "rec" team has excellent coaches and my kid is very good considering the limited time she dedicates to lax. Why on earth would she sacrifice all her time to go from being among the best players in her team/league to maybe being a contributor on some fancy sounding "travel team"?

[b][Because she will get better playing with (and against) the better players, who play travel, than she will playing rec. And if she gets better, she will not be sidelined on a travel team. Sure, if all she wants to do is have time on the field, and doesn't want to put the time in to be good, rec is fine, but if she actually wants to be good at the game, travel is the way to go. And oh by the way, your rec coaches are not better than travel coaches.][/b]

Not to mention probably giving up the other 4 sports she plays?

[b][My son and daughter play travel lacrosse AND play other sports as well. Try again. But hey, if it's not her priority to be good at lacrosse, so be it.][/b]

It makes no sense.

[b][No sense to you, but it makes plenty of sense to kids who want to play with, and against, really good players.][/b]

All these "travel" sports force kids to give up way too much.

[b][Nope. I know plenty of kids on travel teams who, like my kids, play other sports too. Indeed, the club [i]encourages them to do this[/i]. At the youth level, they want the kids to play rec lacrosse [i]as well as[/i] travel.][/b]
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