Our Thunder program, like PBO, is a volunteer not-for-profit program that creates one to many teams at multiple age divisions (from 8U to 14U) depending on the level of talent and our assessment of their current abilities to appropriately compete in travel baseball. We value repetition and experience while balancing a player's desire to improve and win. At the younger age divisions, 8U (2nd Grade and Lower) and 9U (3rd Grade), when there are multiple teams, we will build competitively split talent rosters as it's our belief pitching and defense are the key components to maximize at these ages. Beginning at 10U, we work to deeply assess individual talent levels that create more competitively tiered teams for the level of competition players face as they get older.