I’ll have to do more looking.. I haven’t seen much of them here in Florida.I had a kids play in many odd year tournaments at 11u. You just have to have enough teams interested that are true birth year teams.
I’ll have to do more looking.. I haven’t seen much of them here in Florida.I had a kids play in many odd year tournaments at 11u. You just have to have enough teams interested that are true birth year teams.
I don’t disagree with your point. I was just curious about the lack of 11u. At the tournaments, seeing 14u level and up, size and age seem to level out.
I like your analogy, one of DDs 10u teams actually, had a coouple of girls much more physically advanced than rest of team or most of 10u for that matter, one in particular was a little ackward after a big growth spurt, her nickname became BBG (for BaByGiraffe), someone even got her a small stuffed giraffe to attach to clip to her bag.The growth 'height spurt, is not necessarily control of physical ability. Example noticeably so like a baby giraffe.
The next growth spurt is more weight and muscle. And better mental connection.
It is notable teams chose to either go all one year roster or mix up ages. And still play against 2nd year teams?
?What is that reason?
I think teams recruit to mostly one birth year so that they can keep the team together as much as possible (laughing as I write this, knowing how much players jump around; although I hope DDs current team, 14u, with a mix 07s and 06s is able to stay together, HC has said his intention is to move them all to 16u in fall)
When you get to 14u, the differences are minimal...
Yes... I love this fantasy also. Two of older girls we have are due to cuts from the ‘older’ 12u team from our org ... but they both have been great assets as they have developed skills further just because of more play time with our team. I can already see 1-2 of our same year girls suffering from the same fate when tryouts happen later this year.It all starts out so well, doesn't it?
"We'll keep this whole team 2009 birthdates so we can keep it together for years". Hahahahaha
imo
softball is about talent level not age.