I appreciate all your kind responses to my question. First off, if I may clarify, this isn't about my team so I have limited influence on what they choose to do for their own reasons. I have two separate teams of my own (at different schools - ACK!) and my plate is more than full! I will pass on your responses to the other team's coaches. I too would like them to participate at whatever level they can. Our local program's goal was to have as many interested kids participate as possible and circumstances resulted in this third team getting the short end of the stick with time and resources. I have talked to the coaches a bit to try to help them out but there's only so much I can do due to my own over-commitment. I am gratified that, despite their difficulties, both the coaches and the kids on that team are not rejecting our local program or FLL. There is now even more interest in a year-round program which would go a long way towards preventing another situation like this. Again, thanks for your responses. Stuart ______________________________________________________________ To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE YOUR SETTINGS, please visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or leave the list". If you want to join the VADCFLL-ADMIN-L mailing list - to which FLL administrative announcements will be distributed - visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-admin-l.html and select "Join or leave the list".