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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wouldn’t a date change like that blow up a lot of teams? Our 12U team has 6 girls with Sept-Dec birthdays (including the coaches daughter). I assume they’d play another year at 12U and the rest of the girls would have to find another team?  That really sucks![/quote]

The team would have split up in time anyway. [b]IME parents have these romantic dreams about their 10- and 12U squads staying intact all the way through HS but it never happens that way. [/b][/quote]

This.  And honestly, it's often better that the girls get to play on different teams with different teammates.[/quote]

Absolutely it is. But what happens is by second year 12U is teams start to solidify in terms of primary positions and parents and players of bench riders start agitating, thinking they’re better than they are. And so they go looking for different teams in search of more playing time. [/quote]

As a parent of a 12U, this is helpful. It often seems like very few teams that start in 10U (or earlier) stick past that second season 12U. Teams that form a little later seem to have a better chance of staying largely intact, and I've often wondered why.[/quote]

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