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[i]Yes it’s nice to be “chosen” but I encourage you to take note of what happens to the girls they aren’t trying to recruit during those clinics. I’m not sure they are even aware of how distasteful it is. Maybe they think other clubs do the same “separate the wheat from the chaff” thing during clinics, but they don’t[/i].

Actually, most clubs do separate girls out during clinics. At least the majority of the ones I’ve been to with my DD. [/quote]

If the club has two courts or more courts available virtually every club will separate players at some point during a clinic. If you have a wide range of skill levels in the clinic you especially have to separate.  But there are good ways and bad ways to do it.

We've done a lot of pre-tryout sessions and a lot of the clubs are really bad at this.  Some of the worst offenses:
- Sending players to lower courts and none of the coaches will work with them or even watch.
- Pulling players aside before the clinic even starts and telling them to go the upper court (some clinics had them sorted before they even walked into the gym)
- Players grouping together into teams and making it clear that they don't want anyone else playing with them -- even if a coach tells that player to go with that group
- Coaches pulling players to the sideline that they are interested in and having a discussion about trying out for their club -- in front of multiple other players who they aren't interested in.
- Players in specific positions never leaving the court even when the drill/game has a rotation/wave system.

Our DD was on the top court at most of these clubs and had coaches telling her they were interested, and she left every one saying "this isn't where I want to play."

Ironically, the one club clinic where she ended up on the lower court is the club she wants to play for the most.  Why? Because the coaches were clear about why there were different courts. The lower court was for skills work with the goal of improving their skill very quickly. The upper court was gameplay for players that already had the skill. And the lower court was staffed and watched by the coaches for DD age group.  By the end of the session both courts were running the same scrimmage - the upper court was just running it faster and more consistently. It was the only session where she came out a significantly better player than she was when she went in.  It also helped that all the club's players from last year were genuinely welcoming new players into their teams/groups.

I'm sure some players left that gym knowing that they weren't going to make a team with the club. But I don't think any of them could say the club didn't take the time to really try to help them get better.[/quote]

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