Originally Posted by Anonymous
You are very fortunate to have a PAL team in your town that has kids that can play. In my town we aren't that lucky but the kids have fun, even the few kids that do play travel. I'm sure they would prefer to be more competitive, but I think they look at PAL as practice and look at their club team as their "real" team.


What grade is your kid in? I have a 2023 kid and we haven't encountered any PAL team's that I would say were terrible. Obviously some are better than others. There are even some really good ones (Manhasset, Massapequa, RVC etc.) But at the 6th grade level most of the kids on the team can catch and have decent stick skills. We have a few kids that are new to the sport but when mixed in with the seasons kids they do ok.