My 11yo dd has played her entire fp life with a core group of kids in our local rec league. The year before her first year in 10u she worked her butt off to learn to pitch and became a solid pitcher in her first year and a dominant (for our rec league) pitcher the following year when I got a highly regarded local pitching coach to work with her.
To make a long story short, she has a chance to play for one of the best travel teams in our area next year, wants to do it, but isn't sure she's ready to cut the cord with her friends, specifically her best friend who is just good enough to stay in rec ball (therefore unlikely to quit) but doesn't have the skills for travel. She's been asking about playing both travel and rec and I've been reluctant to agree to let her, she couldn't play for the above referenced team because they're A level and our rec league only allows B level travel players to participate.
I'm sympathetic to her desire to play with friends as most of the travel teams seem to have a core group that came out of rec together and know each other socially while she wouldn't know anyone at first. Our rec league doesn't sponsor a travel team and while I know a couple of her friends and teammates other than her best friend who could play travel if they wanted to, I don't know that they intend to and feel it would be innapropriate to recruit them to join my dd in travel (I coach a younger dd in that league so I'm pretty involved with the rec league).
I'm curious if anyone else has gone through this and how it resolved itself.
Dusty
To make a long story short, she has a chance to play for one of the best travel teams in our area next year, wants to do it, but isn't sure she's ready to cut the cord with her friends, specifically her best friend who is just good enough to stay in rec ball (therefore unlikely to quit) but doesn't have the skills for travel. She's been asking about playing both travel and rec and I've been reluctant to agree to let her, she couldn't play for the above referenced team because they're A level and our rec league only allows B level travel players to participate.
I'm sympathetic to her desire to play with friends as most of the travel teams seem to have a core group that came out of rec together and know each other socially while she wouldn't know anyone at first. Our rec league doesn't sponsor a travel team and while I know a couple of her friends and teammates other than her best friend who could play travel if they wanted to, I don't know that they intend to and feel it would be innapropriate to recruit them to join my dd in travel (I coach a younger dd in that league so I'm pretty involved with the rec league).
I'm curious if anyone else has gone through this and how it resolved itself.
Dusty