Why don’t the U12 and U14 kids get to travel and participate in PYSA games?
The costs for insurance is high. Team sizes (usually very large) don’t afford young players enough time to develop skills to be successful soccer players. Coaches in these younger age group teams work hard to get every player time on the field and this makes it hard for our teams to compete against towns that have smaller teams and more competitive players. Finally, the burden of having kids on different teams means that parents are spending lots of time trying to get kids to games. Coaches also have a lot of uncertainty about what teams they can field from game to game. I don’t understand what the older kids (player coaches) have to do with LISSP. The idea is that we are trying to provide mentors (or player coaches) that serve as positive roll models for younger players.
