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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am the op and I just learned my dd was invited to the additional tryout.

Congrats OP! did you think the field 1/2 theory above was right?

My dh took her but it sounds like she was in the front half the whole time, so yes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are new to the travel soccer world, but had overheard another group of parents saying something similar - that there was a method to the madness with the field assignments which be used to gauge likelihood of getting on the team. But I had not heard what fields were what! So thanks for the tip about the Field 1 and Field 2. We are keeping fingers crossed, but there were lots of eager young boys playing their hardest! Good luck to all!

So, the field with the best players are the ones who will most likely make the team. The kids they take off the best field and are just sitting on the sidelines, already made it. The kids you see moving fields are the ones they want to see more of. Don't look at just your kid's field. Look at all the others. Be objective. I may not know a lot about some sports, but I can pretty well tell who is good at it and who isn't.

[Anonymous]

The kids we know that made it (boys) all ended up on the field closest to the parking lot. As far as 2014 kids the 4 or 5 my son knows didn’t make it but I would think at least a few did. It seemed like all the 2014s started on the back field making it harder to make it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any 2014 players that made it?

Just curious why travel is opened to 2014 but ADP is not opened to 2014...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any 2014 players that made it?

Just curious why travel is opened to 2014 but ADP is not opened to 2014...

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[Anonymous]

I think it’s designed to be in between travel and rec. In the past the younger kids could play because there were more spots than kid’s trying out 60 spots and only 50 kids. I heard the last time they did the full tryout there were over 120 kids in the age group for just 80 spots. There is a jr academy that practices 2 times a week and will occasionally scrimmage the travel kids. I believe it’s called advanced academy. The other option you could do if you want your kid to play on a bigger field is sign them up for 3rd grade rec soccer in the fall.

[Anonymous]

After going through this for the first time and my DS getting and offer for the team (he was so happy), here is my hindsight advice if this is the path your child wants:

1. Do all the “academy” programs when offered for the age group (or at least as many as possible) - but maybe most important is the winter program. The advanced academy (which was mentioned in a prior post) was by invitation this year (although not sure if others who learned of it could have joined?!) and my theory is it was based on kids who have already showed an interest the additional training programs.

2. Definitely do the advanced academy program if given the chance - the vast majority of kids on the top fields for tryouts came from
Advanced academy.

3. This past year, the field predictions were spot on - Field 1 vs Field 2. And within Field 1, you could walk down it and see the progression from the top fields to the lower ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After going through this for the first time and my DS getting and offer for the team (he was so happy), here is my hindsight advice if this is the path your child wants:

1. Do all the “academy” programs when offered for the age group (or at least as many as possible) - but maybe most important is the winter program. The advanced academy (which was mentioned in a prior post) was by invitation this year (although not sure if others who learned of it could have joined?!) and my theory is it was based on kids who have already showed an interest the additional training programs.

2. Definitely do the advanced academy program if given the chance - the vast majority of kids on the top fields for tryouts came from
Advanced academy.

3. This past year, the field predictions were spot on - Field 1 vs Field 2. And within Field 1, you could walk down it and see the progression from the top fields to the lower ones.

I am the OP. My kid did not of these, just a few half day summer capstone summer camps last year and rec soccer this year. Just want to give others hope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After going through this for the first time and my DS getting and offer for the team (he was so happy), here is my hindsight advice if this is the path your child wants:

1. Do all the “academy” programs when offered for the age group (or at least as many as possible) - but maybe most important is the winter program. The advanced academy (which was mentioned in a prior post) was by invitation this year (although not sure if others who learned of it could have joined?!) and my theory is it was based on kids who have already showed an interest the additional training programs.

2. Definitely do the advanced academy program if given the chance - the vast majority of kids on the top fields for tryouts came from
Advanced academy.

3. This past year, the field predictions were spot on - Field 1 vs Field 2. And within Field 1, you could walk down it and see the progression from the top fields to the lower ones.

I am the OP. My kid did not of these, just a few half day summer capstone summer camps last year and rec soccer this year. Just want to give others hope.

Also to give people hope. We haven’t done anything but rec soccer and our July 2014 son made it. We decided to wait another year before we turned our life over to sports (he is our oldest).

[Anonymous]

That is great to hear! I was the one who posted the 3 points, and candidly did so because I was completely taken by surprise about how competitive things were at tryouts (purely in the sense of number of kids trying out vs number who could make it). We were not prepared for it - who knew at this age! But my DS loves soccer and he happened to have done the various programs even before travel was on any of our radars and so we felt more comfortable in our chances.... figured I would pass that along. But I am so happy to hear stories of kids who didn’t go through that route who still had the chance to shine and make the team! I think that is proof the system of tryouts worked!