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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How often do kids who are slow at ages 10-11 speed up later?[/quote]

I can't answer in general but my older son was chubby and slow at 10-11 and then between 7th/8th grade grew 8 inches, slimmed out and now is markedly faster. He made the team he didn't make the year before when he was chubby and slow. We didn't bother to try out again for the one that told him he would never be a travel soccer player at U9. These kids can change so much when they hit puberty, for better or worse. Puberty happened to be kind to my son. [/quote]

Yep.  My kid was an enormous chubby baby/toddler and a husky (but fast) first/2nd grader.

Theyboegged him as slow his first year of tryouts---mainly by first sight.  He excelled greatly and his. Is h kept telling RD and those above they made a placement mistake but to deaf ears.

He is now 11.5 and one of the younger U12s and now dwarfed by the middle schoolers on his team.  Now as one of the smaller kids on his current team--he plays whole game and is a clutch player.

The first club left such a sore taste in my mouth.  Ironically, all of the kids they praised and said were unbelievable at 8--none of them are on the Ateam 3 years later.  Many are in the lowest team going into U13 and their parents are pissed.[/quote]

We are experiencing the great irony as well.  The smug parents that walked around at U9/U10 saying anyone that complained about placement was delusional and their kid was no good.  Now at U13, every single one of those players was dropped down, some as far as the bottom team.  Guess which parents are running around crying now?  Our kids have now moved up and they are crying it's so unfair to their children.  It can only be an error if it's their child.[/quote]

The funny thing about youth soccer, is that kids develop at different paces. A star at U9 isn't necessarily a star at U13, and a dud at U12 can be a star by U16, hence the whole "demotion/promotion" thing. They are placed where they belong according to their development. I know that is not a popular mindset, but it is just how it is, delusions of grandeur notwithstanding.

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