Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
In girls league, there are two 8 th grade travel teams (2018) playing in the 7th and 8 th grade division. That's not playing up.


Who really cares where the teams play? First of all, town teams spend WAY more time playing and practicing together and have played together for a long time and are more of a "Team" than most travel teams. And, even if (and it is not always true) the travel team girls have better skilled players, the fact that they do not play together a lot really evens that out. Also, on the travel teams, many girls do not play winter with their travel team and play with their town teams so the travel teams are somewhat pieced together. And, I will add, since tryouts were in September, some girls on the travel teams are seeing each other for the first time as teammates as they are really getting to know each other now before spring practices and summer. So are travel teams really better "teams" this early in the season when they are missing girls and many kids are meeting each other for the first time?


That's a nice try, and decent argument, but with the exception of a few towns, YES, they usually are "better"!