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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had a similar experience at Mojo. There were so many girls and my daughter was relatively new to the club and didn’t get a look from the start. We left. Ironically they were still supposedly looking for players and having more clinics afterward but we had accepted another offer from a club that actually watched her play and saw her value. It was a total money grab. No question. [/quote]

That's too bad, its hard to get noticed at a club tryout if you are new to club but great she accepted an offer from another club.

Every year after tryouts we see posts on this forum about how a player didn't get a fair tryout or was on the bottom court or wasn't watched enough by coaches.  [b]While I don't think the PP story that started this discussion checks out because they weren't actually there[/b], I'm sure there are tryouts where it does happen.

Genuine question for DCUM. Would you rather have tryouts open and available to everyone or closed and invite only? The other option in between those is for clubs to tell people they've not to show up to tryouts, but if they haven't seen you they can't do that.[/quote]

So you think the DD is lying about being stuck on the 3rd court with no opportunity to play among other players with decent skills?[/quote]

I truly feel your daughters pain. Its never a good feeling when your DD feels like a tryout didn't go well. As parents our first instinct is to protect our kids from harm and always believe them and support them.

I don't think your DD is lying about being on the 3rd court.  I do think the conclusions you reached that never getting moved up = never being observed by coaches and/or unfair treatment isn't fair or accurate.  If her tryout mirrored ours, then she started with a lot of players that eventually were moved up and some who stayed and ended with a players that were there from the start or moved down.  We've been to a lot of tryouts over the years and there are issues with most of them. I've done my fair share of criticizing clubs about things, but this process is pretty standard at all the large clubs that run multiple teams.[/quote]

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