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Does anyone out there combine age groups for their rec and club teams for practice ? We are a little town and - for some ages - have both rec and travel (my u 12 team plays lowest division for context). We have someone in charge who wants to try to make things more collaborative between both groups. While it sounds nice in theory, I have a hard time with this. Anyone have an experience like this ? Thanks.

We played in a tournament last weekend and there was a lot of jersey pulling. Am I a naive and delicate flower or is it a thing at this age? I was just surprised by it and my kids were thrown off by it (I get that that is the point of doing it)
(for reference we played in lowest division of the tourney and we threw together a team of the willing for the games. It is not our regular team and we are not doing a spring season otherwise)