Is this normal for travel tryouts.

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Anonymous wrote:Tryouts were split between multiple fields for each travel team. Newcomers were placed on the lowest field. My son was eventually moved up two fields, but was not offered a spot for any team.

yes

[Anonymous]

Yes - many clubs put out invites only. If you didn't receive, assume rejected.

The other thing is there are certain years with a huge showing of talent. When we tried out for our club, I was told that they only extended 9 or 10 invites out of something like 124 players. it's more likely when you have 75+ kids trying out for a year, depending on current roster turnover, you may just not have many new players who will receive invite.

[Anonymous]

Eventually after a while, some clubs send a blanket note to all those that did not get offers to "close out" the formal tryout process. If it's a club you are truly interested in - you can always check back late summer - things do change.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait, you Had two kids try out? Perhaps they got the invite/rejections confused because you use the same email address for both kids. I have seen this happen before.

I thought it might be that. A few years ago they tried out for PSA travel and I got an acceptance letter and they never replied when I asked which kid was accepted. Months later I started getting texts about practices.
Looking back at the e-mail, I don't think it was a rejection but something sent to everyone, possible for my older kid.

Haha, you should have just started showing up with your kid. Maybe you could have gotten a whole year of soccer for free.

We did summer league with PSA, and got invited to a lot of free extra sessions over fall and winter, so this scenario is not out of the question. I think they were even taking rec players at no extra cost.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I got an e-mail saying they tried to put everyone in a position to be evaluated thoroughly. However, there was no line about being rejected. This could easily have been sent for my other kid who made a team. I asked whether this was a rejection, and was told to ask someone else. I'm going to leave it at that since I wasn't planning on accepting an invite, but it seemed unusual that he didn't make a lower (moneygrab) team.

Wait, that's wild. The person who sent you the email wouldn't tell you if it was a rejection or not?

You got put on waitlist for travel soccer?

[Anonymous]

We had an odd tryout over a 3 week period where my son started on the top field with that club's current top team. Over 3 tryouts he was not moved off that field once, but was also never approached by a coach either. We don't have a offer for any of their teams, but yet not rejected either. LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, very normal.

The top field is typically the set roster. Most of the movement down from that field is a baseline making player or group, and most of the movement up from lower fields is a positive sign about your kid and how they performed at the eval. That said, there are only so many roster spots, and typically on any given team, only the bottom 25% or so is at risk any given year, so for a 17/18 person roster, you’re really only competing for maybe 3-4 spots, not accounting for positions in the pool mix.

Also, many clubs don’t reject, they only accept. So if you were not explicitly offered a spot, your player was rejected.

I would also say on some websites you will see that current players are guaranteed a spot meaning for external you need to be really good to hit a top team as a lower team may not get an offer if there isn’t space. I know of multiple clubs that guarantee space for kids already in the program

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had an odd tryout over a 3 week period where my son started on the top field with that club's current top team. Over 3 tryouts he was not moved off that field once, but was also never approached by a coach either. We don't have a offer for any of their teams, but yet not rejected either. LOL

If your son has interest in this team, reach out to the coach. There may be an opening after someone other player doesn't accept an offer. You showing initiative that your son wants to play there could give the coach the incentive to choose your son over other boys at the same ability level.

If your son is OK playing on the 2nd team at this club and if the coach doesn't have a spot on the 1st team, ask about the 2nd one.

[Anonymous]

Its normal for kids they don't know to go on one field at the outset. Then coaches send them to other fields fairly quickly based on ability. Usually they have a strong coach watching that field to make the right decisions, so the first field is not an issue. Its where they wind up as the day goes on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had an odd tryout over a 3 week period where my son started on the top field with that club's current top team. Over 3 tryouts he was not moved off that field once, but was also never approached by a coach either. We don't have a offer for any of their teams, but yet not rejected either. LOL

We had this happen at Loudoun when my son was younger. Spent all three tryouts on their top field, knew all the players and they him, fit right in. Not a peep from them. Not even a reply to two emails asking for feedback. I think it is not uncommon there. It was definitely not impressive. I assumed he would at least get a second team offer, but nothing came. This was at U12.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had an odd tryout over a 3 week period where my son started on the top field with that club's current top team. Over 3 tryouts he was not moved off that field once, but was also never approached by a coach either. We don't have a offer for any of their teams, but yet not rejected either. LOL

Weird, he flew under the radar.... perhaps the coach assumed he was already part of that group and didn't evaluate any of the top team players as they were already a lock for the club. The evaluator sometimes doesn't know all the kids. Defiantly reach out!

[Anonymous]

We tried out for U12 Loudoun last year. There were about six fields full of kids. It took me a minute to figure out where the A, B, C, D fields were. They were just holding a practice. The last field was where they put all the kids that were new to Loudoun with a disinterested coach playing on his phone while they kids kicked the ball around. The second-to-last field is where their challenge players were trying out.

This year, I have noticed less kids for U13, but still the same format. I did notice more coaches watching the last two fields, and some kids get pulled up from the sixth field to participate with the challenge kids. We'll see how day two goes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had an odd tryout over a 3 week period where my son started on the top field with that club's current top team. Over 3 tryouts he was not moved off that field once, but was also never approached by a coach either. We don't have a offer for any of their teams, but yet not rejected either. LOL

Weird, he flew under the radar.... perhaps the coach assumed he was already part of that group and didn't evaluate any of the top team players as they were already a lock for the club. The evaluator sometimes doesn't know all the kids. Defiantly reach out!

Definitely!