As I've lamented on this board many times, DD plays for a bad B team. She's the best player on it, but it's still a bad team.
But as parents and I lamented yet another 0-for-tourney today, we tried to think of a way to make next year more fun. They'll be going to 18U, and so far have said they want to stay together. There is not much most parents want to do less than do another season of this.
We've talked about registering as a C team next year -- we should be competitve in C tournaments, and we'd have the option of playing up if we were feeling stupid. But the idea came to us -- it started as a joke, but sort of grew -- what if instead of playing 14 local tourneys, what if we played 4 or 5 travel ones? Go to Orlando and get beat up; go to Vegas and get beat up. Maybe go to Myrtle Beach or California to get beat up. I mean, it beats going to Nebraska or Kansas to get beat up, doesn't it? They don't even need to to be the big-time showcase ones -- just local tourneys for those areas.
We'd have more travel costs, but the girls would be seniors and it might be a fun time for them. And as parents, we'd at least be somewhere funner to, you know, get beat up.
Does this make any sense to anyone? I mean, I'd prefer to think we'd just get better and all have more fun next year, but ...
But as parents and I lamented yet another 0-for-tourney today, we tried to think of a way to make next year more fun. They'll be going to 18U, and so far have said they want to stay together. There is not much most parents want to do less than do another season of this.
We've talked about registering as a C team next year -- we should be competitve in C tournaments, and we'd have the option of playing up if we were feeling stupid. But the idea came to us -- it started as a joke, but sort of grew -- what if instead of playing 14 local tourneys, what if we played 4 or 5 travel ones? Go to Orlando and get beat up; go to Vegas and get beat up. Maybe go to Myrtle Beach or California to get beat up. I mean, it beats going to Nebraska or Kansas to get beat up, doesn't it? They don't even need to to be the big-time showcase ones -- just local tourneys for those areas.
We'd have more travel costs, but the girls would be seniors and it might be a fun time for them. And as parents, we'd at least be somewhere funner to, you know, get beat up.
Does this make any sense to anyone? I mean, I'd prefer to think we'd just get better and all have more fun next year, but ...