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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes current parents don't want more kids competing for spots on the team.

I find this forum very useful for getting the real dirt people won't tell you about non-anonymously.[/quote]

Issue is you have parents with an axe to grind from experiences years ago.  They can't seem to move on.  [/quote]

People are posting about fairly recent tryout experiences. Valor has only been around a few years, right?[/quote]

YES. The CYA and SYA travel teams merged a couple of years ago. This is their third season.[/quote]

My child plays for Valor. Before tryouts last year I heard that they were only going to take new players if they really stood out because a) the entire spring season is basically a tryout for the kids already playing for the club -- they have so much more data on those kids as compared to the ones who just show up to a couple of tryouts and b) there are already so many kids in the age group. It's easier to slot a new player into a lower team because that's where the open spots are. Kids on those teams realize travel soccer isn't for them or their parents don't want to pay anymore. I can't imagine this is unique to Valor. If a player is placed on a lower team and then turns out to actually be really good, they get moved up. We have seen it with multiple kids. Moves are even made mid-season if coaches agree to it. Kids have also been moved down. You can argue Valor should do a better job running tryouts, but to their credit they seem more open to moving kids than maybe some other clubs based on what I've seen here.[/quote]

This is common practice among most DMV clubs[/quote]

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