14u team is into sixties game wise for the year (and very successul, which helped up the # of games). In addition, couple of the girls played HS (rest still in MS with no MS ball), several others played for town select teams (kinda in between rec and travel).
team lost 3rd round elimination game this past weekend, very hot and humid day. last game had more than normal errors. couple of girls coming back from some minor injuries that sidelined them a couple of weeks.. Nationals in a week, most leaving Thusrday, and we have a one day scheduled after that.
I get why the aggressive schedule, counting on a few rainouts somewhere along the way (DDs first year 10u team, schedule 4 or 5 tournaments, played one due to rain). but I think part of the troublre the girls had Sunday was just fatigue, couple of other parents agree.
do you think we should say something, nothing to be done for this year, but maybe to get a little less aggressive schedule in the fall (when several girls will be playing fall HS sports, including DD, and starting HS) and next spring? in our area, you can usually find a tournament nearly every weekend looking for a team to round it out if possible, or someone for a friendly DH (heck, our org has two teams at each age group other than 10u and 18u, could find a 14u or 16u team to play nearly for certain).
team lost 3rd round elimination game this past weekend, very hot and humid day. last game had more than normal errors. couple of girls coming back from some minor injuries that sidelined them a couple of weeks.. Nationals in a week, most leaving Thusrday, and we have a one day scheduled after that.
I get why the aggressive schedule, counting on a few rainouts somewhere along the way (DDs first year 10u team, schedule 4 or 5 tournaments, played one due to rain). but I think part of the troublre the girls had Sunday was just fatigue, couple of other parents agree.
do you think we should say something, nothing to be done for this year, but maybe to get a little less aggressive schedule in the fall (when several girls will be playing fall HS sports, including DD, and starting HS) and next spring? in our area, you can usually find a tournament nearly every weekend looking for a team to round it out if possible, or someone for a friendly DH (heck, our org has two teams at each age group other than 10u and 18u, could find a 14u or 16u team to play nearly for certain).