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[quote=Anonymous]Well, I can't answer for the Bethesda area as we're in Northern Virginia, but I think most travel teams had their tryouts in June and July for the big Fall travel season. I found a few tryouts posted for November last year, but they tended to be for the older teams or teams needing one or two replacements for Spring. Around here, the travel teams seem to focus on Fall and then have the kids do Little League in the Spring with travel either a few spring tournaments or single game Sunday's with NVTBL. There are some travel teams that are "travel only" and the kids don't do Babe Ruth or Little League, but it's not as large as in other parts of the country where Little League is declining in favor of travel. Little League/Babe Ruth is still big around here.

The biggest problem you'll find is moving here in I assume 4th grade (we moved here in 3rd). A lot of these younger travel teams are set at 8 or 9, so it's really hard to break in even with a talented player. A lot of it is who you know and who you get seen by. We had to play for a year in little league to get noticed before being "invited" to a tryout. A lot of tryouts aren't even posted. There are some teams that will do true open tryouts, and you'll find those listed on NVTBL's website, but some teams limit the area you can be from. There is Babe Ruth in Arlington, but they've been discussing combining wit Little League for the past two years, so I don't know where that stands. I also think that at least one of the two big Arlington teams does tryouts in November, so that might be your best bet. Those tryouts can be huge - 60 plus kids if I remember right. My DS got picked up by another travel team, so we didn't actually go to it.

Hopefully some dad(or mom) from the Bethesda area responds. Right now, I would just keep checking out the NVTBL tryout site for postings. It will be slim pickings right now, but you'll see more in November and most in June/July time frame.[/quote]

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