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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - I AM WITH YOU.

Nothing says I CARE more than a parent asking strangers on the Internet how to make your 9 year old DD play the game she tells you she loves, despite adverse weather conditions, hunger, thirst, or even injury.  I mean, 2-3 months without high-level, pre-D-1 academy soccer would set back her development.  Nonsense.

Start with hydration and lots of A/C and wet towels in the car that she can come back to during breaks, but you need to rely on mental training more than the physical.  Delaying gratification, fear-based logic, or comparisons with peers.  These all work their magic in mysterious ways.

You mentioned in a previous post she's worried about getting cut.  Tell her she'll get cut if she can't play as well with in the 100 degree as she does at 70 degrees, when she's killing it on the pitch.  That will motivate her to play THROUGH the pain.

Of course, you love her, so you don't want her to actually get hurt- so continue hydrating.  Gatorade or anything with electrolytes is key.  The wilting, the heavy feet you described, that's all in her head, imaginary.  You can train her to push through.

You mentioned you hated the heat until you lived in a subtropical climate.  Now you hate the cold.  Why can't a 9 year old acclimate like an adult does?  She will, if you push her buttons the right way.

Don't listen to the loser strangers here unwilling to push their own DDs as if they're on a Japanese game show or in a cram school.

Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.  Let her take breaks in the car with the A/C on full blast.  But reduce those breaks over time and next thing you know, she'll be ready for Parris. when she's 18 (or a D-1 program anywhere east of the Mississippi)!

Good luck OP.  YOU CAN DO IT (Waterboy)
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Sooo… all this to say to just drink more water?[/quote]

YES[/quote]

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