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[quote=Anonymous]As others have said, ask around, look around, and contact coaches to see if your DD can attend practices during the Spring. Attending practices gives you and your DD a good idea of the club culture, the coaches, and the other girls on the team. In addition, if you find a good fit by attending practice, it is more likely that your player would be selected for the team based on her participation, as opposed to attending a cattle call tryout where no one knows her (unless your player is so superior that she would stand out).

One word of caution about the idea of having your daughter start on a second or third team and "working her way up."  People here talk about that all the time. Maybe some clubs really do provide opportunities for advancement, but in my years as a soccer parent with multiple kids (both boys and girls), that is the exception rather than the rule. In most clubs, the top half of the top team is really good, and then there is a drop off, even on the top team.  The second team will have a handful of players, at most, who would fit in with the lower half of the first team, and then there is a huge drop off in talent.  If you are close to top team talent and coming from elsewhere, there is a chance a club will take a chance on you and pick you up for the top team.  Once you are on a second or third team, only the biggest, strongest and fastest kids get second looks for advancement. From what I have seen, clubs usually add players from other clubs to their top teams instead of advancing their B and C team players. In some clubs my kids have played for, the age group coaches never communicate at all.

If you get to practice with lower teams, make sure the talent level is consistent  and the level of interest exhibited by the team is consistent with your daughter's.  It sounds like your daughter wants to "move up" in the soccer world, so you want to be sure the training and environment are worth the extra time and money. I've seen some pretty horrible 2nd, 3rd and 4th teams.

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