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Originally Posted by mikec
I think "Gold" and "exposure" are being used as synonyms here, and they are not.

Your daughters travel team can succeed at getting exposure by playing in the right tourneys.

We have been fighting through this ourselves.  My DD is on a team she likes. She is a Jr in HS.  This past summer, I was pushing to leave for a Gold team to increase her exposure.  She convinced me to let her stay put for Fall, and we'd reevalauate in the spring.  So far, her college choices have not been impacted.  She is not, however, trying to playing the PAC-10 or points west.

We are, though, struggling a bit to get her teammates to commit to playing a few tourneys that involve some travel.  We may or may not pull that off.

So, it is a difficult and personal decision to leave a team.  At age 14, you have some time to think it through.  In the meantime, look at some schools she is interested in.  On the online questionnaires, many schools now have a checklist of recruiting tourneys they attend.  Try to get to some of those, and let the coaches know you will be there.  They will come look at her if she shows interest in them.

As we are finding out, this takes work to get noticed.