Ok, please excuse my ignorance because I'm not up to par on the 18U or HS age groups as my daughter is younger, but why couldn't these players play with their summer ball teams for their regularly scheduled tournaments, whether college exposure or not, and then come together to play the additional open tournaments as pick up players under the "NEW" team? Most organizations would already know the dates for their entire season. These gold teams can't be playing every weekend and if it is the additional competition that the girls seek then why couldn't they put this team together to play on weekends when they aren't playing with their committed teams? I looked on Eteamz and there are 18U tournaments just about every weekend this summer. The manager of our team has told all of our players that they are free to play with other teams as pick up in OPEN tournaments as long as our existing team is the priority and so far that has worked well. We also pick up players occasionally and are very understanding and considerate of their own team committments as well.
