My take is have your daughter play for the best team she can get playing time on. If she's on the bench for more than half the game, drop down to the team just below. It seems somewhat common sense, but parents have egos and want to see their kids on the best team regardless. I get they'll play with better girls at practice, but getting game experience is very important.
Once they get to HS and almost everything is a showcase everyone at M&D is required to play at least half the game so it's not really a concern at that point. The concern is how will she look playing against the quality of teams M&D plays. Again, the key is to be honest about how good your daughter actually is, and not how good you think or wish she was. Playing for the best team where she can compete and excel should be a priority.
You are kidding yourself if you think equal playing time really happens at the high school level at M&D
Well considering my daughter played for M&D it happened on her team. Was mandated by SR.
When it comes to recruiting tourneys / showcases playing time is even but if it is a tournament final ... you play to win... I’ve been through this and it’s what happens . You play most games evenly and if you make it to the final ... you play your best .
Playing time is not even at M&D at the high school level in showcase events. Anyone saying otherwise is lying. Go on the high school forum and ask M&D parents. Multiple complaints to SR over the years about it yet he continued to sit on the sidelines and let it happen.
Everyone played 50% in showcases on the 2021 team. Originally she tried to go 50% of the weekend and parents went crazy and it was changed to 50% of every game.
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