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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After an email that was sent out by my daughter's coach, we took her out daughter for travel tryouts for u12. The whole process seemed very odd and skewed from the beginning. My daughter didn't even make the lowest team at Loudoun which seems pretty bad after watching trials. After talking to a few other parents, it seems to be the case that we never took our child out to trial for All Stars and that was why she wasn't even looked at. Where do we go from here? I'm pretty jaded by how biased and pre-placed loudoun travel seems to be at this point. Where can I take my kid? She has outgrown rec but we obviously are not in the loop as far as where and when to go for other club tryouts. Any help you can be is greatly appreciated. We aren't looking to have her placed on a top team anywhere. I just know that my child is the best on her current team and shouldn't be playing rec anymore.

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This is pretty typical of any large club.  If you are showing up to tryouts and that’s the first time they’ve seen or heard your daughter (or son) it’s almost impossible to stand out and make a team.  Loudoun especially tries to keep kids that have been on teams in a current season on A team going forward and not cut players, so spots at the bottom are rare.

Unless you reach out in advance and talk to a coach (coaches) or join a practice the odds of making it over an existing player are slim as it’s really hard to stand out on a field with over 100 players out there.  Decisions are almost fully baked before tryouts at all large clubs and you need to force your way into that pre tryout evaluation and decision making process.  [/quote]

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