"Here's a warning about training for parents,,,,
The two year younger girl this poster describes, they exist in nearly every town, usually a coaches daughter or a kid who has been brought into the sport early because an older sibling plays. They get out to an early jump and stand out head and shoulders, even on a top travel team at a very young age. They always get surpassed when the teams get older. You will see in 7-9th grade, all the kids with the rare athletic ability finally start catching up in stick skills, these kids disappear. You start wondering why that little kid with incredible stick skills doesn't look so good anymore. This post isn't singling out any one girl or meant to be mean in spirit, it is more directed at parents, to put their kids lacrosse success into perspective, it is a long process with lots of leap frogging through the years. At the end of the day, stick skills in only a small part what makes the great ones great, much more to do with athletic ability and heart."
The post became idiotic when you said always. Plenty of these early overachievers stay at the top and have great success. Take a look at the LI kids playing in college now and in the past and many were phenoms as young players.Are there kids who are late bloomers , absolutely .Seems to me your kid was not very successful as a youth player and there must have been a kid who she was always in the shadow of. Give it a rest there are so many different stories to these top players that they do not fit in any one mold.
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