Can someone help shed some light on the 2019 teams? It's clearly the largest age group. What is to be expected as a member of the Fleming group? Will this team play in all of the lowest brackets?And does anyone know anything more about who Fleming is?
I think she is a 2nd year player on Stony Brook and played on YJ. Since she is in college and will be tied up with lax at school she will not be around very much as she is the only coach listed and between school and lax will be very busy. Its a 6th team. I dont think it matters nor does YJ care what person they put in there to coach the team. I doubt she ever coached before and needed a name/warm body so that they can list somebody on that team as the coacj and cash your check. Just go with it. Where are you going to go now, all the tryouts are over so what options do you have?
As bad as this sounds, this will likely be what happens. I wouldn't put it exactly how this poster did, but the bottom line is that you will get the minimum 10 practices. Meet at the tournaments. You will feel separated and distant from the other teams, and feel very much like a third wheel. You will also probably play 50% or more of your games against younger YJ teams or YJ north teams. When it is all said and done you probably will feel like you wasted a lot of time. You will not have the same experience as a top team does and you child will not improve much if all you do is attend the 10 practices.
You child will probably play 20 games in the travel season of which she will see 20-30 minutes per game max. So that's about 2 hours of playing time for five weeks. 10 hours of game time total and 15 hours of practice. All that money and time for so little in return.
