Nems and M&D did not combine. A few girls from each club joined together with some other girls. The NEMS and M & D Clubs just did not want to send teams. With the heat and humidity in Florida as well as all the costs hard to argue why this makes sense.
I give the club owners credit. Do not see how any of the benefits outweigh the above.
For some reason there seems to be an inordinate amount of kids from Maryland who can't manage to get out of kindergarten and/or first grade at the proper age, so the majority of players on 2016 teams are too old to qualify for a u-15 tournament(forget any 2015 kids), which means they would be playing on equal footing, this is why they don't enter - has nothing to do with cost, it's a simple risk/reward decision, they can't win at the proper age group, so why expose themselves?
