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[quote=retiredref]Each club runs tryouts a little differently. Some will just divide them up into teams and have them play small-sided games. Some will line them up and have them walk through drills one at a time. Most will be somewhere in between or with some combination of both. If she can try to focus more on having fun and learning something than on performing for the coaches she should do fine.

Many coaches at the younger ages are looking more at potential than at where she is right now, so for them her speed will definitely outweigh her technical ability.

At her age priority should be to stay local unless the local coaches are really bad, but depending on where you live you may have more than one club close enough to go to multiple tryouts and experience different approaches. When my daughter was 8 we could get to 4 tryouts within a 20 minute drive so we had options. If you do have options look for the club/coaches who don't lose sight of the importance of children having fun playing a game they love. [/quote]

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