American Select Tryouts - What to expect?

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2028s out now

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Anonymous wrote:2028s out now

You know because your daughter got an invite?

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Anonymous wrote:2028s out now

You know because your daughter got an invite?

Right.

Post this morning was probably from a trouble-starter.

[Anonymous]

Oh well. Did not get the email. Daughter disappointed but not end of the world.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh well. Did not get the email. Daughter disappointed but not end of the world.

All America tryouts on 5/19

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Anonymous wrote:Oh well. Did not get the email. Daughter disappointed but not end of the world.

All America tryouts on 5/19

Isn’t that one combined with 27s?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh well. Did not get the email. Daughter disappointed but not end of the world.

All America tryouts on 5/19

Isn’t that one combined with 27s?

Yes

[Anonymous]

What is All America and how many teams should my daughter try out for or be on? She has club and High School JV (she’s a 28). Will it help for Capital to be on All America if she did not make America Select?

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I don't think these teams matter for Capital. Some girls have made AS and not Capital and vice versa.

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They just want your money

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Anonymous wrote:What is All America and how many teams should my daughter try out for or be on? She has club and High School JV (she’s a 28). Will it help for Capital to be on All America if she did not make America Select?

Save your money

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Anonymous wrote:Any idea what the breakdown of the 2027 team is? How many pride and BLC?

From what my daughter knows, at least 8 from Pride, 4 from BLC. Admittedly BLC probably has more, by daughter doesn't know all of them.

Preview of what the 27 Capital Blue team will be. Stars is in trouble.

AS is not a preview for Capital. A LOT of strong players did not try out from all of the teams in the DMV.

This has been the historic norm for years. These events do not attract all the top players. They don’ need the politics, don’t need these events and don’t need to spend the unnecessary thousands of dollars to participate. These events promise a recruiting windfall but ask many of the best players in the area if AS impacted their commitment to a collage program and many would say no.

Not true. The AS event attracts a lot of talented area players and has for many years. There are no “promises of a recruiting windfall.” All the top coaches are there but they won’t be watching the 27s or 26s - only the 25s. AS helped my kid (a top D1 commit) because it gave coaches interested in her a final look before Sept 1 during her recruiting year.

No one (other than you it seems) believes this event proclaims to have magical powers in getting kids recruited. The job of every player who wants to get recruited is to go where the coaches are. This is the last opportunity before the deadline where they have the chance to do just that. For a 27 or 26 I’d say it isn’t important, unless money isn’t a problem and you want to do it for the experience. But for 25s, this event could absolutely help some kids who want to leave one last impression before the dead period.

I’m guessing your DD either didn’t try out for AS because you thought it was wired for Capital, or did try out and didn’t make the team. Either way, you weren’t there, so you have no idea just how many top coaches were roaming around at this event.

Good points here and they track with our experience having been to AS. We went because it was a good way for our daughter to be seen one final time during her recruiting year. There were a lot of coaches on the sidelines of her games. We’ve heard since that top coaches don’t start looking seriously at players until midway thru the summer before junior year because they are busy competing in the NCAA tourney and want a some time afterward to unwind. These coaches finalize their lists in August. They were at AS scouting and we found it was good to get our daughter a last round of exposure.

ummm. I want to be polite here, but this is so inaccurate I don't want folks to read and think it is true.

Recruiting at least for top 50 schools (and Ivys) starts in earnest in October of your sophomore season. In the fall, coaches start building lists and then work through them through the summer (and in some cases the spring if you are on a top HS). This is why it is critical to send out films/letters to get coaches to your games in the fall.

One good performance in front of coaches in the summer won't get you an offer. If the first time a coach sees you is at AS or even G8, that coach probably isn't interested in you.

AS and the last chance prospect days in August can be great events to "seal the deal" but that won't happen if you havent performed in front of that coach before.

[Anonymous]

Coaches are up on the website now

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Anonymous wrote:Any idea what the breakdown of the 2027 team is? How many pride and BLC?

From what my daughter knows, at least 8 from Pride, 4 from BLC. Admittedly BLC probably has more, by daughter doesn't know all of them.

Preview of what the 27 Capital Blue team will be. Stars is in trouble.

AS is not a preview for Capital. A LOT of strong players did not try out from all of the teams in the DMV.

This has been the historic norm for years. These events do not attract all the top players. They don’ need the politics, don’t need these events and don’t need to spend the unnecessary thousands of dollars to participate. These events promise a recruiting windfall but ask many of the best players in the area if AS impacted their commitment to a collage program and many would say no.

Not true. The AS event attracts a lot of talented area players and has for many years. There are no “promises of a recruiting windfall.” All the top coaches are there but they won’t be watching the 27s or 26s - only the 25s. AS helped my kid (a top D1 commit) because it gave coaches interested in her a final look before Sept 1 during her recruiting year.

No one (other than you it seems) believes this event proclaims to have magical powers in getting kids recruited. The job of every player who wants to get recruited is to go where the coaches are. This is the last opportunity before the deadline where they have the chance to do just that. For a 27 or 26 I’d say it isn’t important, unless money isn’t a problem and you want to do it for the experience. But for 25s, this event could absolutely help some kids who want to leave one last impression before the dead period.

I’m guessing your DD either didn’t try out for AS because you thought it was wired for Capital, or did try out and didn’t make the team. Either way, you weren’t there, so you have no idea just how many top coaches were roaming around at this event.

Good points here and they track with our experience having been to AS. We went because it was a good way for our daughter to be seen one final time during her recruiting year. There were a lot of coaches on the sidelines of her games. We’ve heard since that top coaches don’t start looking seriously at players until midway thru the summer before junior year because they are busy competing in the NCAA tourney and want a some time afterward to unwind. These coaches finalize their lists in August. They were at AS scouting and we found it was good to get our daughter a last round of exposure.

ummm. I want to be polite here, but this is so inaccurate I don't want folks to read and think it is true.

Recruiting at least for top 50 schools (and Ivys) starts in earnest in October of your sophomore season. In the fall, coaches start building lists and then work through them through the summer (and in some cases the spring if you are on a top HS). This is why it is critical to send out films/letters to get coaches to your games in the fall.

One good performance in front of coaches in the summer won't get you an offer. If the first time a coach sees you is at AS or even G8, that coach probably isn't interested in you.

AS and the last chance prospect days in August can be great events to "seal the deal" but that won't happen if you havent performed in front of that coach before.

"Top HS" would include maybe 4 in the DC area (SR, Saints, Visi, GC) and, even then, you are unlikely to see a college coach on the sideline of your HS game unless he or she is related to one of the participants. Potentially a good source for film, though.

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Everyone is an expert. But anyone who tells us how it is, is only telling one story.

All these coaches do their own thing. Some scout real hard at the tournaments, some only go after girls they saw at their camp, some are just lazy and let the top 5 programs tell them who is good. Some schools recruit mostly local, some only from LI or MD, some from anywhere. Do all businesses do it the same way as their competition?

Play hard, score goals/make steals/make saves, be a decent teammate (even though plenty of bad teammates still got recruited to top teams), get good grades, run and workout in the weight room, try and make at least a couple of all-star deals, and go to a few camps.

Oh, yeah - and pay HB thousands of dollars for mediocre condition instruction once or twice a week 🤣 That’s a joke - don’t do that.