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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have an issue with tryouts but would like to see those reduced to once a year vs 2-3 times a year and would like them to start when kids are 13/14--or whatever age makes sense for the development curve for your sport. USA Hockey did a huge overall on their coaching best practices and part of that tracked youth development arcs for boys and girls. When kids are younger than a certain age, training/play is on development, but then pivots more toward competition as kids get older. Tryouts really should be timed with the competition phase. [/quote]

St James would rather call it travel and charge you 9 year old $3,500 than call it rec or developmental and charge $1,250 [/quote]

As someone who has watched several friends try St. James and end up really unhappy, this made me laugh (at St. James, not my friends who have generally found better circumstances).

But it's unfortunately not just them. And it's not just the organizations. Parents just can't handle the kid in the dugout who doesn't want to be there, or the flaky family or 4 who make it hard to know if you'll even have the numbers for the game  this weekend or whatever. And as a family gutting rec out with kids who love their sport, every season I see more and more why the travel experience is attractive. But then I hear the horrible stories from places like the St. James and I...decide we can make rec + lessons work.[/quote]

Your comment about the families not being able to handle other families/kids being on the same page is very true. BTDT. We aren't gunning for a scholarship for junior, but our sport is very painful to watch when a kid who has zero interest in being there (yet their parent keeps signing them up) and it's even worse when that kid has zippy skill (and their parent can't see that either). When we moved to travel, we accepted tryout BS because overall DS is happier with a group of kids who are truly interested in being there and getting better. We have not run into the tryouts for the next year's team overlapping with current season though.[/quote]

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