Volleyball tryouts in real time

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Anonymous wrote:"They also make it pretty clear that if you don’t go to both days of tryouts that it reduces the likelihood of making a team."

How the heck can folks fit in tryouts for more than one team with that requirement?

The whole process doesn't make any sense. Its especially confusing for new parents. A better process would be to stretch out tryouts over a week or two time frame giving clubs and players an opportunity to evaluate and see who's a good fit. All clubs send out offer emails the following day after tryout week. Monday morning 8am etc... Give parents and player 48 hours to decide. Boom, done, simple. The tryout rules are governed by CHRVA not the clubs. It's my 3rd year of this madness. This weekend will be brutal for girls who have their hopes up to make a specific team or make a team at all. Good Luck!

I don’t understand what the “simple” part is in your ideal description. Don’t you realize that clubs would just send out their offer emails to the same 12 girls? Then what?…they get 48 hours to decide while your DD has no offers and waits until the next round of offers? And then does round 2 get 48 hours to decide as well?
What if a player accepts an offer when it comes in the second round but then in round three, she finally gets an offer from a club she really wants that still has a spot? Can she change her mind?
The system they have is imperfect, but your proposal is a nightmare.

+1. That proposal would be awful. My DD and her friends went to 5-9 tryouts over that weekend. They were all trying for open level or national teams. It was a terrible weekend and we knew it would be. Stretching it out over a longer period of time would have these girls going to even more tryouts, out of fear that they wouldn’t have a spot anywhere. Even with 5-9 tryouts in that short amount of time, everyone we know can away with 0-2 options. So don’t say they went to too many. Every girl went to some lower level clubs too. I wouldn’t want to stretch this out over two weeks.

Like one parent said the clinics are basically pre vetting 100% correct. And the try outs aren't really try outs they throw 100 girls on a court at time. You can't truly evaluate players in that short amount of time and especially with overcrowding. It's like having 200 guys on the basketball court and saying go for it, let me see what you got. Some girls don't know positions or understand rotations. Stretching the time period out would allow for a more comprehensive evaluation. That's the point I'm trying to make. Having them wait two weeks vs two days is reasonable. New parents after your first tryout experience this weekend. Come back and post here, provide your honest thoughts on what you think of the evaluation process.

I wish the coaches would provide honest feedback during / after the pre-tryout clinics. We've never had honest feedback even though we always tried to figure out whether my DD has any chance of making a team at various clubs. All the answers we received were sugar coated and ended with something along the line "you will never know unless you try out." This happens even at the top clubs, where the coaches watch you for five minutes and can tell that you have no chance whatsoever to make any of their teams. We saw exactly the same approach every single year since my DD started playing volleyball. The coaches encourage everyone to sign up for tryouts no matter how many left hands you have. Then they end up at the tryout with a bunch of players with rec-level skill, which they discard on the bottom court and they pay no attention to. I feel like this is extremely unethical and they do it just to brag about how many players show up at the tryouts. I watched the coaches during pre-tryout clinics collecting a lot of data on each player and I think they use that data to make their lives easier during tryouts, when they already know who has a chance and who doesn't. Unfortunately, players and parents are not offered any insight into that data - they simply learn during the tryouts that they had no chance to begin with.

I wish I could better read this sugar-coated language that the coaches use. Many posts here suggest that coaches use more positive / warmer feedback, in line with "I would really want you to play on one of our teams" for players they would get on their teams. That might be code for "you have no problem receiving and offer after the tryouts." We've never heard that from any coach, which might speak volumes why we didn't have successful tryouts at top clubs. It is not clear what language the coaches use for players who are almost there, but not quite. I wish they could use some more quantitative measures to tell you "The bottom player who made one of our teams last season was at 70%, comparatively your DD is at 30%." Parents could decide to show up for tryouts if their DD is at 60%, but not even bother at 50% or lower. I agree that it would be a little more work for the coaches: they would have to get all the data aggregated (probably an Excel sheet would do it), but it would make everyone's life so much better. I would be willing to pay for this data rather than pay a lot more for the tryout and waste time showing up.

Bingo, well stated. New parents warning! Bring a lawn chair to sit in you'll have to wait in long lines to speak with the coaches about your DD "evaluation". Then rush to the next try out if you have others that day. A simple email to athletes on Monday would avoid this headache.

Let me rephrase the new parent warning. If you ended up at a tryout where you have to wait a long time to speak with the coaches, you are likely not going to make the team. Don't waste your time staying in line: go back home and look up low and mid tier clubs and sign up for their tryouts.

Uggggg my player waited to talk to the metro coach. We thought it was a good sign.

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Anonymous wrote:"They also make it pretty clear that if you don’t go to both days of tryouts that it reduces the likelihood of making a team."

How the heck can folks fit in tryouts for more than one team with that requirement?

The whole process doesn't make any sense. Its especially confusing for new parents. A better process would be to stretch out tryouts over a week or two time frame giving clubs and players an opportunity to evaluate and see who's a good fit. All clubs send out offer emails the following day after tryout week. Monday morning 8am etc... Give parents and player 48 hours to decide. Boom, done, simple. The tryout rules are governed by CHRVA not the clubs. It's my 3rd year of this madness. This weekend will be brutal for girls who have their hopes up to make a specific team or make a team at all. Good Luck!

I don’t understand what the “simple” part is in your ideal description. Don’t you realize that clubs would just send out their offer emails to the same 12 girls? Then what?…they get 48 hours to decide while your DD has no offers and waits until the next round of offers? And then does round 2 get 48 hours to decide as well?
What if a player accepts an offer when it comes in the second round but then in round three, she finally gets an offer from a club she really wants that still has a spot? Can she change her mind?
The system they have is imperfect, but your proposal is a nightmare.

+1. That proposal would be awful. My DD and her friends went to 5-9 tryouts over that weekend. They were all trying for open level or national teams. It was a terrible weekend and we knew it would be. Stretching it out over a longer period of time would have these girls going to even more tryouts, out of fear that they wouldn’t have a spot anywhere. Even with 5-9 tryouts in that short amount of time, everyone we know can away with 0-2 options. So don’t say they went to too many. Every girl went to some lower level clubs too. I wouldn’t want to stretch this out over two weeks.

Like one parent said the clinics are basically pre vetting 100% correct. And the try outs aren't really try outs they throw 100 girls on a court at time. You can't truly evaluate players in that short amount of time and especially with overcrowding. It's like having 200 guys on the basketball court and saying go for it, let me see what you got. Some girls don't know positions or understand rotations. Stretching the time period out would allow for a more comprehensive evaluation. That's the point I'm trying to make. Having them wait two weeks vs two days is reasonable. New parents after your first tryout experience this weekend. Come back and post here, provide your honest thoughts on what you think of the evaluation process.

I wish the coaches would provide honest feedback during / after the pre-tryout clinics. We've never had honest feedback even though we always tried to figure out whether my DD has any chance of making a team at various clubs. All the answers we received were sugar coated and ended with something along the line "you will never know unless you try out." This happens even at the top clubs, where the coaches watch you for five minutes and can tell that you have no chance whatsoever to make any of their teams. We saw exactly the same approach every single year since my DD started playing volleyball. The coaches encourage everyone to sign up for tryouts no matter how many left hands you have. Then they end up at the tryout with a bunch of players with rec-level skill, which they discard on the bottom court and they pay no attention to. I feel like this is extremely unethical and they do it just to brag about how many players show up at the tryouts. I watched the coaches during pre-tryout clinics collecting a lot of data on each player and I think they use that data to make their lives easier during tryouts, when they already know who has a chance and who doesn't. Unfortunately, players and parents are not offered any insight into that data - they simply learn during the tryouts that they had no chance to begin with.

I wish I could better read this sugar-coated language that the coaches use. Many posts here suggest that coaches use more positive / warmer feedback, in line with "I would really want you to play on one of our teams" for players they would get on their teams. That might be code for "you have no problem receiving and offer after the tryouts." We've never heard that from any coach, which might speak volumes why we didn't have successful tryouts at top clubs. It is not clear what language the coaches use for players who are almost there, but not quite. I wish they could use some more quantitative measures to tell you "The bottom player who made one of our teams last season was at 70%, comparatively your DD is at 30%." Parents could decide to show up for tryouts if their DD is at 60%, but not even bother at 50% or lower. I agree that it would be a little more work for the coaches: they would have to get all the data aggregated (probably an Excel sheet would do it), but it would make everyone's life so much better. I would be willing to pay for this data rather than pay a lot more for the tryout and waste time showing up.

Bingo, well stated. New parents warning! Bring a lawn chair to sit in you'll have to wait in long lines to speak with the coaches about your DD "evaluation". Then rush to the next try out if you have others that day. A simple email to athletes on Monday would avoid this headache.

Let me rephrase the new parent warning. If you ended up at a tryout where you have to wait a long time to speak with the coaches, you are likely not going to make the team. Don't waste your time staying in line: go back home and look up low and mid tier clubs and sign up for their tryouts.

Uggggg my player waited to talk to the metro coach. We thought it was a good sign.

You may have a chance for the regional teams if your player is tall and / or very athletic (still find a safe club just in case Metro doesn't work out). There is no incentive for the coaches to say it in your face that you have no chance: they will sugar coat it to keep you playing volleyball. If they are nice to you, there is a good chance that you will pay for more clinics and tryouts in the future.

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Anonymous wrote:"They also make it pretty clear that if you don’t go to both days of tryouts that it reduces the likelihood of making a team."

How the heck can folks fit in tryouts for more than one team with that requirement?

The whole process doesn't make any sense. Its especially confusing for new parents. A better process would be to stretch out tryouts over a week or two time frame giving clubs and players an opportunity to evaluate and see who's a good fit. All clubs send out offer emails the following day after tryout week. Monday morning 8am etc... Give parents and player 48 hours to decide. Boom, done, simple. The tryout rules are governed by CHRVA not the clubs. It's my 3rd year of this madness. This weekend will be brutal for girls who have their hopes up to make a specific team or make a team at all. Good Luck!

I don’t understand what the “simple” part is in your ideal description. Don’t you realize that clubs would just send out their offer emails to the same 12 girls? Then what?…they get 48 hours to decide while your DD has no offers and waits until the next round of offers? And then does round 2 get 48 hours to decide as well?
What if a player accepts an offer when it comes in the second round but then in round three, she finally gets an offer from a club she really wants that still has a spot? Can she change her mind?
The system they have is imperfect, but your proposal is a nightmare.

+1. That proposal would be awful. My DD and her friends went to 5-9 tryouts over that weekend. They were all trying for open level or national teams. It was a terrible weekend and we knew it would be. Stretching it out over a longer period of time would have these girls going to even more tryouts, out of fear that they wouldn’t have a spot anywhere. Even with 5-9 tryouts in that short amount of time, everyone we know can away with 0-2 options. So don’t say they went to too many. Every girl went to some lower level clubs too. I wouldn’t want to stretch this out over two weeks.

Like one parent said the clinics are basically pre vetting 100% correct. And the try outs aren't really try outs they throw 100 girls on a court at time. You can't truly evaluate players in that short amount of time and especially with overcrowding. It's like having 200 guys on the basketball court and saying go for it, let me see what you got. Some girls don't know positions or understand rotations. Stretching the time period out would allow for a more comprehensive evaluation. That's the point I'm trying to make. Having them wait two weeks vs two days is reasonable. New parents after your first tryout experience this weekend. Come back and post here, provide your honest thoughts on what you think of the evaluation process.

I wish the coaches would provide honest feedback during / after the pre-tryout clinics. We've never had honest feedback even though we always tried to figure out whether my DD has any chance of making a team at various clubs. All the answers we received were sugar coated and ended with something along the line "you will never know unless you try out." This happens even at the top clubs, where the coaches watch you for five minutes and can tell that you have no chance whatsoever to make any of their teams. We saw exactly the same approach every single year since my DD started playing volleyball. The coaches encourage everyone to sign up for tryouts no matter how many left hands you have. Then they end up at the tryout with a bunch of players with rec-level skill, which they discard on the bottom court and they pay no attention to. I feel like this is extremely unethical and they do it just to brag about how many players show up at the tryouts. I watched the coaches during pre-tryout clinics collecting a lot of data on each player and I think they use that data to make their lives easier during tryouts, when they already know who has a chance and who doesn't. Unfortunately, players and parents are not offered any insight into that data - they simply learn during the tryouts that they had no chance to begin with.

I wish I could better read this sugar-coated language that the coaches use. Many posts here suggest that coaches use more positive / warmer feedback, in line with "I would really want you to play on one of our teams" for players they would get on their teams. That might be code for "you have no problem receiving and offer after the tryouts." We've never heard that from any coach, which might speak volumes why we didn't have successful tryouts at top clubs. It is not clear what language the coaches use for players who are almost there, but not quite. I wish they could use some more quantitative measures to tell you "The bottom player who made one of our teams last season was at 70%, comparatively your DD is at 30%." Parents could decide to show up for tryouts if their DD is at 60%, but not even bother at 50% or lower. I agree that it would be a little more work for the coaches: they would have to get all the data aggregated (probably an Excel sheet would do it), but it would make everyone's life so much better. I would be willing to pay for this data rather than pay a lot more for the tryout and waste time showing up.

Bingo, well stated. New parents warning! Bring a lawn chair to sit in you'll have to wait in long lines to speak with the coaches about your DD "evaluation". Then rush to the next try out if you have others that day. A simple email to athletes on Monday would avoid this headache.

Let me rephrase the new parent warning. If you ended up at a tryout where you have to wait a long time to speak with the coaches, you are likely not going to make the team. Don't waste your time staying in line: go back home and look up low and mid tier clubs and sign up for their tryouts.

Uggggg my player waited to talk to the metro coach. We thought it was a good sign.

You may have a chance for the regional teams if your player is tall and / or very athletic (still find a safe club just in case Metro doesn't work out). There is no incentive for the coaches to say it in your face that you have no chance: they will sugar coat it to keep you playing volleyball. If they are nice to you, there is a good chance that you will pay for more clinics and tryouts in the future.

I get it. This weekend just stinks.

[Anonymous]

Advice needed: DD didn’t get an offer from her first choice club today but was invited in a mass email to attend callbacks/makeups tomorrow. The issue is the callback/makeup conflicts with another club tryout she hasn’t been to yet bc she “prioritized” the first. WWYD?

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Anonymous wrote:"They also make it pretty clear that if you don’t go to both days of tryouts that it reduces the likelihood of making a team."

How the heck can folks fit in tryouts for more than one team with that requirement?

The whole process doesn't make any sense. Its especially confusing for new parents. A better process would be to stretch out tryouts over a week or two time frame giving clubs and players an opportunity to evaluate and see who's a good fit. All clubs send out offer emails the following day after tryout week. Monday morning 8am etc... Give parents and player 48 hours to decide. Boom, done, simple. The tryout rules are governed by CHRVA not the clubs. It's my 3rd year of this madness. This weekend will be brutal for girls who have their hopes up to make a specific team or make a team at all. Good Luck!

I don’t understand what the “simple” part is in your ideal description. Don’t you realize that clubs would just send out their offer emails to the same 12 girls? Then what?…they get 48 hours to decide while your DD has no offers and waits until the next round of offers? And then does round 2 get 48 hours to decide as well?
What if a player accepts an offer when it comes in the second round but then in round three, she finally gets an offer from a club she really wants that still has a spot? Can she change her mind?
The system they have is imperfect, but your proposal is a nightmare.

+1. That proposal would be awful. My DD and her friends went to 5-9 tryouts over that weekend. They were all trying for open level or national teams. It was a terrible weekend and we knew it would be. Stretching it out over a longer period of time would have these girls going to even more tryouts, out of fear that they wouldn’t have a spot anywhere. Even with 5-9 tryouts in that short amount of time, everyone we know can away with 0-2 options. So don’t say they went to too many. Every girl went to some lower level clubs too. I wouldn’t want to stretch this out over two weeks.

Like one parent said the clinics are basically pre vetting 100% correct. And the try outs aren't really try outs they throw 100 girls on a court at time. You can't truly evaluate players in that short amount of time and especially with overcrowding. It's like having 200 guys on the basketball court and saying go for it, let me see what you got. Some girls don't know positions or understand rotations. Stretching the time period out would allow for a more comprehensive evaluation. That's the point I'm trying to make. Having them wait two weeks vs two days is reasonable. New parents after your first tryout experience this weekend. Come back and post here, provide your honest thoughts on what you think of the evaluation process.

I wish the coaches would provide honest feedback during / after the pre-tryout clinics. We've never had honest feedback even though we always tried to figure out whether my DD has any chance of making a team at various clubs. All the answers we received were sugar coated and ended with something along the line "you will never know unless you try out." This happens even at the top clubs, where the coaches watch you for five minutes and can tell that you have no chance whatsoever to make any of their teams. We saw exactly the same approach every single year since my DD started playing volleyball. The coaches encourage everyone to sign up for tryouts no matter how many left hands you have. Then they end up at the tryout with a bunch of players with rec-level skill, which they discard on the bottom court and they pay no attention to. I feel like this is extremely unethical and they do it just to brag about how many players show up at the tryouts. I watched the coaches during pre-tryout clinics collecting a lot of data on each player and I think they use that data to make their lives easier during tryouts, when they already know who has a chance and who doesn't. Unfortunately, players and parents are not offered any insight into that data - they simply learn during the tryouts that they had no chance to begin with.

I wish I could better read this sugar-coated language that the coaches use. Many posts here suggest that coaches use more positive / warmer feedback, in line with "I would really want you to play on one of our teams" for players they would get on their teams. That might be code for "you have no problem receiving and offer after the tryouts." We've never heard that from any coach, which might speak volumes why we didn't have successful tryouts at top clubs. It is not clear what language the coaches use for players who are almost there, but not quite. I wish they could use some more quantitative measures to tell you "The bottom player who made one of our teams last season was at 70%, comparatively your DD is at 30%." Parents could decide to show up for tryouts if their DD is at 60%, but not even bother at 50% or lower. I agree that it would be a little more work for the coaches: they would have to get all the data aggregated (probably an Excel sheet would do it), but it would make everyone's life so much better. I would be willing to pay for this data rather than pay a lot more for the tryout and waste time showing up.

Bingo, well stated. New parents warning! Bring a lawn chair to sit in you'll have to wait in long lines to speak with the coaches about your DD "evaluation". Then rush to the next try out if you have others that day. A simple email to athletes on Monday would avoid this headache.

Let me rephrase the new parent warning. If you ended up at a tryout where you have to wait a long time to speak with the coaches, you are likely not going to make the team. Don't waste your time staying in line: go back home and look up low and mid tier clubs and sign up for their tryouts.

Uggggg my player waited to talk to the metro coach. We thought it was a good sign.

We waited to talk to the coaches for the regional team our DD tried out for. I thought it was worthwhile - no offer made, but they also briefly talked about if things were to come open, then what role/position she would be likely offered a spot to fulfill. No guarantee of anything, but it was more than "don't call us, we'll call you." It was also good training for my DD, who could have done a better job in her responses just the same (we talked about it afterwards). Just my opinion, but I didn't think it was a waste of time.

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Anonymous wrote:Advice needed: DD didn’t get an offer from her first choice club today but was invited in a mass email to attend callbacks/makeups tomorrow. The issue is the callback/makeup conflicts with another club tryout she hasn’t been to yet bc she “prioritized” the first. WWYD?

If the other club the first or is there a makeup for that one too?
Our kid is planning to go to a makeup on Monday for a Sunday conflict.

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Anonymous wrote:"They also make it pretty clear that if you don’t go to both days of tryouts that it reduces the likelihood of making a team."

How the heck can folks fit in tryouts for more than one team with that requirement?

The whole process doesn't make any sense. Its especially confusing for new parents. A better process would be to stretch out tryouts over a week or two time frame giving clubs and players an opportunity to evaluate and see who's a good fit. All clubs send out offer emails the following day after tryout week. Monday morning 8am etc... Give parents and player 48 hours to decide. Boom, done, simple. The tryout rules are governed by CHRVA not the clubs. It's my 3rd year of this madness. This weekend will be brutal for girls who have their hopes up to make a specific team or make a team at all. Good Luck!

I don’t understand what the “simple” part is in your ideal description. Don’t you realize that clubs would just send out their offer emails to the same 12 girls? Then what?…they get 48 hours to decide while your DD has no offers and waits until the next round of offers? And then does round 2 get 48 hours to decide as well?
What if a player accepts an offer when it comes in the second round but then in round three, she finally gets an offer from a club she really wants that still has a spot? Can she change her mind?
The system they have is imperfect, but your proposal is a nightmare.

+1. That proposal would be awful. My DD and her friends went to 5-9 tryouts over that weekend. They were all trying for open level or national teams. It was a terrible weekend and we knew it would be. Stretching it out over a longer period of time would have these girls going to even more tryouts, out of fear that they wouldn’t have a spot anywhere. Even with 5-9 tryouts in that short amount of time, everyone we know can away with 0-2 options. So don’t say they went to too many. Every girl went to some lower level clubs too. I wouldn’t want to stretch this out over two weeks.

Like one parent said the clinics are basically pre vetting 100% correct. And the try outs aren't really try outs they throw 100 girls on a court at time. You can't truly evaluate players in that short amount of time and especially with overcrowding. It's like having 200 guys on the basketball court and saying go for it, let me see what you got. Some girls don't know positions or understand rotations. Stretching the time period out would allow for a more comprehensive evaluation. That's the point I'm trying to make. Having them wait two weeks vs two days is reasonable. New parents after your first tryout experience this weekend. Come back and post here, provide your honest thoughts on what you think of the evaluation process.

I wish the coaches would provide honest feedback during / after the pre-tryout clinics. We've never had honest feedback even though we always tried to figure out whether my DD has any chance of making a team at various clubs. All the answers we received were sugar coated and ended with something along the line "you will never know unless you try out." This happens even at the top clubs, where the coaches watch you for five minutes and can tell that you have no chance whatsoever to make any of their teams. We saw exactly the same approach every single year since my DD started playing volleyball. The coaches encourage everyone to sign up for tryouts no matter how many left hands you have. Then they end up at the tryout with a bunch of players with rec-level skill, which they discard on the bottom court and they pay no attention to. I feel like this is extremely unethical and they do it just to brag about how many players show up at the tryouts. I watched the coaches during pre-tryout clinics collecting a lot of data on each player and I think they use that data to make their lives easier during tryouts, when they already know who has a chance and who doesn't. Unfortunately, players and parents are not offered any insight into that data - they simply learn during the tryouts that they had no chance to begin with.

I wish I could better read this sugar-coated language that the coaches use. Many posts here suggest that coaches use more positive / warmer feedback, in line with "I would really want you to play on one of our teams" for players they would get on their teams. That might be code for "you have no problem receiving and offer after the tryouts." We've never heard that from any coach, which might speak volumes why we didn't have successful tryouts at top clubs. It is not clear what language the coaches use for players who are almost there, but not quite. I wish they could use some more quantitative measures to tell you "The bottom player who made one of our teams last season was at 70%, comparatively your DD is at 30%." Parents could decide to show up for tryouts if their DD is at 60%, but not even bother at 50% or lower. I agree that it would be a little more work for the coaches: they would have to get all the data aggregated (probably an Excel sheet would do it), but it would make everyone's life so much better. I would be willing to pay for this data rather than pay a lot more for the tryout and waste time showing up.

Bingo, well stated. New parents warning! Bring a lawn chair to sit in you'll have to wait in long lines to speak with the coaches about your DD "evaluation". Then rush to the next try out if you have others that day. A simple email to athletes on Monday would avoid this headache.

Let me rephrase the new parent warning. If you ended up at a tryout where you have to wait a long time to speak with the coaches, you are likely not going to make the team. Don't waste your time staying in line: go back home and look up low and mid tier clubs and sign up for their tryouts.

Uggggg my player waited to talk to the metro coach. We thought it was a good sign.

We waited to talk to the coaches for the regional team our DD tried out for. I thought it was worthwhile - no offer made, but they also briefly talked about if things were to come open, then what role/position she would be likely offered a spot to fulfill. No guarantee of anything, but it was more than "don't call us, we'll call you." It was also good training for my DD, who could have done a better job in her responses just the same (we talked about it afterwards). Just my opinion, but I didn't think it was a waste of time.

PP.
yes, we learned last year that if they ask if it’s your first choice you just say yes. She didn’t say that last year - because she’s genuine and sweet. This year she played the game.
Last year she was on the bubble. We called on Tuesday. Was told she was next in line for that position. At 9:45 reached out again.
Hope it won’t work like that again but expecting it!
Good luck all!

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Anonymous wrote:Advice needed: DD didn’t get an offer from her first choice club today but was invited in a mass email to attend callbacks/makeups tomorrow. The issue is the callback/makeup conflicts with another club tryout she hasn’t been to yet bc she “prioritized” the first. WWYD?

If the other club the first or is there a makeup for that one too?
Our kid is planning to go to a makeup on Monday for a Sunday conflict.

Club A was DDs first choice and the first tryout directly conflicted with second choice Club B. So she went to Club A tryout today. She didn’t get an offer from Club A today but was invited to a callback tomorrow (assume everyone who didn’t get an offer is invited to the callback but not sure if we have to pay again….). The problem is the callback also conflicts with Club B’s second day. Both times on both days directly overlap.

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Anonymous wrote:Advice needed: DD didn’t get an offer from her first choice club today but was invited in a mass email to attend callbacks/makeups tomorrow. The issue is the callback/makeup conflicts with another club tryout she hasn’t been to yet bc she “prioritized” the first. WWYD?

Did she attend invite clinics at the other club? Do you have a relationship at the other club? If not, go to the callback instead. You have a better chance.

Or list the two clubs and we can give you better feedback. My daughter was in the same position and didn’t take my advice. She went to the tryouts instead of the callback. She really wanted the other club and it was their first tryouts. We got there are there were over 100 girls. She never had been to an invite clinic at that club and I told her the chances were slim but she didn’t listen to me. Now she’s wondering what if she had gone to the other instead. This was last weekend.

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19:26 and she didn’t get anything at either of those clubs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:St James tryouts for 15U and up was quite the experience. About 300 girls showed up in total, heavily weighted towards 15s, then 16s, then a lot fewer 17s and up. It felt like the longest pepper session ever till they got the train going.

At least for 16s (I'm guessing there were about 50-60 trying out in this age group), almost the entire tryout was just girls doing basic scrimmaging and folks with clipboards walking around. Eventually the group shrank to two courts, and it was pretty apparent that they were consolidating into a 'good' court and everybody else.

Offers were posted on their website under the tab for each team, along with callbacks (all by assigned player #s) by about 11PM the same evening.

300 is insane. Good luck to your daughter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Advice needed: DD didn’t get an offer from her first choice club today but was invited in a mass email to attend callbacks/makeups tomorrow. The issue is the callback/makeup conflicts with another club tryout she hasn’t been to yet bc she “prioritized” the first. WWYD?

I would be honest with the club that she tried out for today. Write an email and tell them that this club is your first choice, but the callback overlaps with the tryouts for the "safe option." Ask what are the realistic chances to make one of their teams if she joins the callback. They will likely be honest and tell you to go to the tryout for your safe option if your DD has little to no chance of making the club. It will be harder for them to advise you if your DD has a pretty good chance of making the team. Ask them if they have a callback for a different age group that you could join insted.

[Anonymous]

Are there tryouts not in real time?

[Anonymous]

What would you do if a club told your kid and parent that we would receive a call tonight?

No call. 9:27

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there tryouts not in real time?

Obviously they mean discourse in real time. Sigh. Go away.