We aren't to 12U yet but DD played on an 8U team and is on a 10U team now. She is always the smallest on the teams, but both coaches have said she is the most improved over the winter.
That is what I preach to her when DD gets down for being small. She has to accept the challenge of outworking every other girl out on that field.
Yup.
And as the dad of tall, strong girls I watch girls like yours with envy. I watch them beat out grounders to 3rd that my daughter will never do.