All of you will have to revisit this forum 3 years from now with a lot of mea culpas about how over-the-top ridiculously intense you all were. I guarentee that most of your boys are not nearly as intense about the "domination" of their summer club team as you are. All they want to do at this age is have fun playing with their friends. Three years from now none of what is happening today will every be remembered or at least certainly won't matter. Trust me, my oldest son is a freshman in college now (yes, he is playing varsity lax at highly ranked DIII school) and I can't remember (nor does he care right now) what happened in 8th grade. Stop with the snarky, nasty comments and JUST CHILL!!! How about discussing really important issues such as over-use injury prevention, academic study habits and aids, best tournaments and must avoid tournaments for this age etc...