Youth Player’s Skill Improvement

The skills of a young athlete are improved through coaching and competition.  The coaching aspect is obvious.  A player will improve faster under the tutelage of a good coach than a bad coach.  As important as having a good coach is playing with and against comparable or better competition.  No one became a superstar playing against inferior talent.  

A player’s talent improvement correlates directly over time with the talent they play against.  An A-team player’s skills will improve faster playing against A-teams than a comparably talented player playing on a lower level team and against lesser talented players.

The teams your child play for matters. It matters that your child plays on the best team possible because they will play with and against better talent.  This will in turn make them better players