RE: Cold Emailing a coach to ask if your kid can attend a practice ahead of tryouts
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Anonymous
To be fair to OP, she was pretty honest that her kid was Not Great, which I found refreshing. |
Anonymous
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We watched these teams play before reaching out.
I mentioned in the email that I had watched the team play and think my son may be a good fit for the team if they have any space for new players. |
Anonymous
good point... just a very talented 2012 boy.lol |
Anonymous
top 5 national team. interesting. Congrats anyways |
Anonymous
Hey now! Don't forget my kid too! |
Anonymous
One edit- if your kid is U15 or older this needs to come from your kid- not you. |
Anonymous
smart move… seen it work out w players from our club even though they weren’t supposed to do that. I highkey think a lot of players did this. Could be wrong…. |
Anonymous
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I would email the director of the age group, or the director of coaching if you can’t find contact info for age group director. I did that last year and was purposely vague about which club and team my child was on at the time. They replied asking which club and team level, lol. So even if you don’t say it up front they will probably ask.
We ended up staying put last year but looking around again this year. My child has attended a practice at one other club so far. They didn’t tell us which team they would practice with ahead of time, but we figured out it was the second team. Funny enough later in the week our child was at their own club’s practice and a few new kids showed up, including one from the team where our child had just visited. Those kids were told to go practice with the second team. So maybe that’s the default… start with second team and if you stand out maybe you get asked to come back and try with first team, or if you don’t look good you are asked to come back and try with third team or just not asked back. |
Anonymous
| So the normal thing is for the kid to be slotted into a practice, and then the coaches email or speak to the parents and tell them to come back, or not ? |
Anonymous
In a nut-shell, yes. Coaches should give some type of general feedback along the lines of, 'yes they might be a good fit for this team' or 'we would like to see more of your kid in order to do a make a better assessment' or 'we would like your kid practice with a higher or lower team.' You may be encouraged to have them tryout at the open tryouts. Rarely will they say they can't come back (unless they are too small or it's a safety issue). But they are vague with wording. A positive sign is an open invitation to come back anytime to practice. |
Anonymous
Good point. |