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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In our FCPS high school, there were 120 boys who tried out for the soccer team last year. Only 36 were chosen (18 each for JV and V). It's incredibly competitive. [b]The coaches do seem to know who they're going to take before the first tryout though. The guys who were strongest at tryouts were not necessarily the guys who made the team[/b]. [b]There were definitely some chosen that left everyone scratching their heads[/b]. [/quote]

I live next to James Madison HS and I enjoy watching soccer, tennis and lacrosse tryouts during Spring season for the past 20 years.  I also played D1 soccer so I think I know a little bit about sports.  What the PP said is absolutely true.  It seems like the "expert" coaches seem to know who they are going to take before the first tryouts.  I've seen many of the best athletes at the tryouts didn't make the team on either soccer or lacrosse.  There is a culture of favoritism, nepotism and corruption between the coaches and the parents who know the coaches before the tryouts.  The coach has the final said on who can make the roster.  It makes me sad for those superb athletes that didn't make the team in favor of the inferior one because of the favoritism between the coaches and parents.

The exception sport is tennis where in the tryouts, they institute match play where everyone has an equal stake in making the team.  You can have a freshman knocking out the #1 player from the previous year and take over the #1 spot.  It is a new year and everyone starts out equally.  You're what the record said you're.  At the end of the tryouts, the team selection and the position is based on the record during the tryouts.  The coach has very little said, if any, on who will be selected for the team.

When the coach has so much power on who can make the team, corruption will creep in.[/quote]

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