"not because she was not one of the best at her position , but because she didn't try out with a blu or gold pine on her back . " Many parents feel their child is one of the best at her position but the coaches believe otherwise.If the coaches thought your daughter would help them win more so than other girls on the team she would have been placed on that team,the coaches want to win.That being relationships with the kids ,parents etc. from the prior years team will naturally have an impact on the coaches choice.
When you have tryouts for a team that has been together, it is very difficult to break in. Unless your daughter is so much better than the girls already on that team the coaches are going to go with who they know. Why break up team chemistry with both players and parents for a player who may not be much better.
This is true and maybe it makes sense to keep teams together. Here is the problem. YJ tend to keep teams together and when there is an opening say on gold they go for the new kid rather than take a kid that has been with them from a lower team. The rational is of course to keep the lower team together. The problem is they lose respect from parents and kids from the lower team who have been loyal and many times, not all the time, are as good as the kid they took. I think it is easier to walk onto a YJ team than move up.
It makes perfect business sense to do this as you say. If they already have a kid on yellow paying and playing that's cash in the bank. The new kid looking to get on a team may only jump to YJ's if they make the blue. Solution- offer the new kid trying out the spot on blue and collect money from both- its genius.
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