At the younger ages, we typically told the players at practice when the next practice would be. We then sent a text to the parents after practice was over. That was pre-high school. Once DD started playing high school sports (basketball and softball), interaction with the parents was nearly nonexistent, unless they wanted our support with a fund raiser. All team communication was given to the players only. We continued communicating to the group through 16u. At 18u, we switched to player only. We did have a group email and an app (can't remember what it was called) that we used to communicate tournament information; game schedules, etc. At 23u again it was player only. In fact, several of the players were making their own hotel reservations for those events.