Coach P. My daughter and her team are a product of the playing up philosophy. For the last 2 years she has consistently played teams a year older than she is, who are bigger, stonger, and faster. Sure they have had a good many losses, however I believe in the end they will end up at a higher level of development then they would have if they had played teams they could easily have beat. I can remember our first RBC Tournament her team played one game at U-11 where they lost around 20 to 0. My daughter was 8 at the time. Man that was tough. The other team was amazing with ball control and speed. Now however, everything has changed and I believe it is in part due to some of those early beatings.
We are now at it again with our youngest who is 8 years old playing on the U-10 Development teams against U-11 teams.
