by bigbats » Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:45 am
To Whom It May Concern:
We can revisit this again. I am the manager of the FC01 team, and you are correct, I did not let my girls play that championship game. My coaches wanted to play the game, however I have the responsibility for looking out for my 10 year old girls. I chose not to play the game because of the 25 minute delay in the semi-final game. Since you were there, you know that the championship game would have started around 8:30-8:45 pm due to the lights going out during our semi-final game against OCBB. I didn’t think it appropriate to have our 10 yr olds play a championship game that would be ending about 10 pm on a Sunday night. I realized that the next day, Monday, was not only a school day, but also Halloween. I took into consideration that the girls will more than likely be out late that Monday night having fun and being a 10 yr old. Therefore I made the unpopular decision to not play the championship game because I was looking out for a bunch of 10 yr old kids. If the situation arose again on a Sunday night and the kids had school the next day, I would make the same decision. As a manager, my main job is to look out for and protect my girls. Sometimes that means making an unpopular decision which I am ok with. As a manager, it's unfortunate, but sometime we even have to protect our girls from coaches and parents that feel at the age of 10, our kids must go out there and prove something to some parent not even on our team, on a Sunday night. I look after our girls and will continue to ensure that they are safe, happy and that they are allowed to be 10 yr old girls. Our girls are in this sport for the longevity, in the hopes of teaching them to be good young ladies, role models and scholars in the classroom. I feel that it is important to protect them now and not burn them out, so that when they turn 16 or 17 and have offers to play at a college, they don't tell mom and dad that they are burned out and don't want to play the game any longer.
Again, just like we did back in October, we give the Gamers team nothing but congratulations on that tournament in which they won the championship, won the cash and they also beat us in pool play 3-2.
In saying that, please look to our friendly on 1/22 and see who’s coming. Looks like we have FC01, OCBB and Gamers 01. So I think that some of the bigger teams that everyone wants to see so badly will be out there and playing.
Thank you for your time,
Roman Gallegos
Firecrackers 01
562-607-1292