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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not an expert at all. I think some clubs have invite clinics some don’t.

At the clubs that have invite only clinics, if your daughter has not been invited and she’s been to their clinics enough that coaches could have seen her and invited her, it’s not likely she’ll get a spot on that team. Nothings impossible though.

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I think this captures the reality. Not every club does invite clinics, but if they do, those are the girls most likely to get offers. So it’s not impossible to get an offer if your DD isn’t invited but it’s not likely. If the club isn’t super competitive, it might happen that they invite girls that ultimately decide to play elsewhere so keep an eye out for make-up or last chance tryouts in a few weeks. That sometimes means girls didn’t accept that the club thought would. And that tends to happen a lot at 14s where girls who have a year or more of club experience start moving to more competitive clubs. [/quote]

There are two types of invite clinics.  Public (published) and private (not published).  If a club is doing private clinics that aren't published anywhere, and the info isn't shared by the coaches with your player, our experience is that you aren't really being considered by the club. This is especially true at the top levels of U14, where some of the VA side clubs have invite only sessions.

The clubs that publish schedules usually tell you why they have an invite process. For some its due to court capacity and demand or to get equivalent skill levels in the gym. Our experience with those clubs was dependent on the number of players interested in the club. If demand is high, the club probably limits invites to make sure they see everyone.  Last year we tried out at one of the clubs with higher demand. We requested 5 tryout clinics and only got into 2. We still got an offer for that club.  But if demand is low and you don't get an invite, then they probably aren't interested in you.

[b]And remember its OK to ask the coach/club if you have a chance of making their team. [/b]

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OP here and thank you.  DD has a couple of clubs that are her top choices.  One said that they will have invite clinics but she has no idea when and we have not received any emails.  We will email and let them know she’s interested.  We didn’t know if that was appropriate.  [/quote]

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