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Coach,
After doing this for the last three years I do not believe my child feels any pressure to perform.I will say that struggling thru region ball is sometimes tough on her but I do believe with more looses than wins that playing at that level has just made her stronger and smarter as a player..If she had to choose between playing at a lesser level and having fun or playing at the top level and struggling to achieve..I think she would take the latter..She has always chosen her path and is realistic to what her chances are at playing college ball.This adventure started out as a simple game and has turned into quite the competitive quest but not for one minute did she ever say that she was not having fun..



She sounds like a great player, and I really am looking forward to meeting her...for players like that (who are my favorite type, by the way) challenging themselves IS the definition of "fun."

Reminds me of my high school team...there has been talk lately of our school dropping to 3-A in the next couple of years. We would probably have an easier time being competitive with the 3A schools in our area in soccer...but my team wants to stick with 4A--they say they'd rather take their lumps until they learn to win consistently at that level than drop down and feel like they were settling for less competition!

(Guess their crazy coach must be rubbing off on them.)

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