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If that be the case, I still wouldn't have them playing every weekend.
Playing too much and burn out for 10u ? Any happy medium?
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- Jun 8, 2016
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Like I said in a previous post with the weather you could get caught in a situation where a bunch of tournaments are rained out. What I would probably do at that age is pack the schedule and if you end up playing a few tournaments in a row you can always back out of the next tournament. While this probably won't allow parents to go on vacation during the season it would give the girls a break.
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That would be a viable approach. Indiana gets its share of rain problems, we always just add more if we run into weather early. Spring is our bigger problem.
My daughter plays 8u and we had a big uproar on our team because parents wanted to play more tournaments. The problem with 8u in our area is there are not many teams, so we usually have to travel at least a hour and a half. We are playing every other weekend from the second week of April until the end of July. I for one thought that was more than enough at 8u. Our coach told us how many tournaments we would be playing at tryouts. Sometimes parents and coaches push too hard and it burns out not only the kids, but the entire family from softball. Let kids be kids, softball isn't life.
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As an example DD's coach (1st year 12U) has 12 tournaments scheduled starting from the last week of March through the second week of July with 5 requiring hotel stays (2 in state, 3 out of state..) Over the last 3 years the least amount of tournaments we have had rained out I think is maybe 2 or 3 so it will probably end up working out to about 3 tournaments a month for us.
My only complaint is that one of the in-state and one of the out of state stayovers are unncessary imo as there is a better tournament locally for the out-of-state tournament and the in-state one isn't that great and was recently added to replace a closer one which doesn't appear as if it is going to make. That said the kids seem to really enjoy the stayovers..they act like they never have seen a pool before
On the otherhand my 1 YO isn't too fond of sleeping in hotel rooms so my enjoyment level isn't quite as high...
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In my opinion that schedule is crazy, not only are you going to burn the girls out, you're going to burn their parents out also. My 11 year old loves to play but we had to pull her back from rec this spring so both she and I didn't get overwhelmed. Practice is an hour each way, we are playing 9 tournaments with in an hour or so of the house. Also have a 6 year old who I coach her team, that needs just as much attention.
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I don't really understand why 10U teams are traveling 2+ hours away unless you're in an area where there just aren't any local tournaments at all. Why spend that kind of money at that level? You're not being recruited. We didn't start TB until 12U, so 10U was rec ball with one practice and one or two games per week.
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Doesn't sound too bad just seems like you are stuck being far from some good complexes we had a couple go to complexes that were great and less than an hour away but that because we were next to a big city
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Yes I agree. We as parents need to have some sort of life too! haha. Especially when there are other kids in the family as well.
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