Thinking about the next soccer season - club players on recreational teams

I've been thinking about our girls next soccer season.  When the fall rolls around, due to our 2nd place finish, I suspect we'll be moving to the top bracket.  In Texas, kids can play both recreational and club soccer until U11.  Our girls will be U10 next year.  That means the upper bracket is loaded with girls that, year around, practice twice a week and play a league match or participate in a tournament almost every weekend.  The result is they have about 4x the playing time of our most experienced player.  They are infinitely more experienced than 80% of our team.  This translates to a very uneven playing field.  

I suspect we'll persevere for a season, take our lumps, get sent back down to the lower bracket in the spring and then flourish in the season after that when all the club players are restricted from recreational soccer.

Times have changed.  Kids putting in this kind of time into a sport before the age of 11 used to be rare.  It's common now.  Our recreational leagues need to realize this and group the club kids on separate teams in separate brackets.  My girls will have a tough time next season.  However, they're a tight team and I think they'll take care of each other just fine.

-Bill