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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SO---they put all of the kids they pre-selected on a few small scrimmage fields.  Any kids that are looking to transfer from first teams from other clubs also get a chance on those fields right at the start of tryouts.  If in the tryout form your kid is listed on a lower team at another club, they will not get a chance to be put in that sorting group.  The will get put to the neverland fields.

Most everyone else gets put on a low field where they might have one coach for 'show'.  He/she doesn't really watch the tryout and sometimes even has backed turned talking to someone else.

I have a 16-year old and a 13-year old and this is what I have seen at every Club across the DMV.

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This is what we've seen too, that the coaches are only really watching one or two fields depending on the size of the clubs.
I'm sure there are a few star kids moving from other clubs or who are already on the coaches' radar but at one club we saw the fields seemed to be assigned mostly on height and appearance for the younger ages. Then they would take kids off that field as they narrowed it down. The smaller kids never got a chance.

It seemed like the lower teams in early years were assigned at random and there wasn't a real ranking. [/quote]

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