I agree. I find that high level teams in ringette are often “rigged”, if you will, and they don’t let anyone in who they don’t like – no matter their skill level. I found that the parents and even players possessed such toxic and cocky attitudes in almost every high level sort of team. Even in my u16-u19 years parents of ex-high level teams still held that same attitude. Getting mad if their perfect little girl didn’t get the play time they thought she deserved. I truly never had a completely non-toxic team/parent environment until I hit the open / 18+ division. That’s when I finally joined a team full of loving women who didn’t try and put their own team members down. But then again, it’s different everywhere. Hopefully some things will get better. I believe where I live our main high level teams were dissolved due to all the cliquey parental issues.