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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the intense winter swim programs are akin to travel sports but travel sports doesn’t even mean anything anymore. The companies have realized that it’s a moneymaker to admit as many kids as possible onto these teams so anyone can do travel who wants to pay for it now. Back in the day there might’ve been cuts to make the team - now they just have multiple levels of teams to give everybody who wants to participate a slot.[/quote]

It depends on the sport and team. Basketball still has a brutal number of cuts. DD’s club has two teams at her age, but 50 tried out for 24 spots. There are other clubs fielding one team each per age getting similar numbers at tryouts [/quote]

This.

DS’s 15U tryouts were two days and like 150 kids trying out for 40 spots on 3 teams (15-17u).  Given that most of the 16 and 17 U teams were returning players, and most of the 15Us who made the team had been invited to try out, they were really only looking for a handful of new kids.

The coaches started walking around within 10 minutes on the first day and tapping kids on the shoulder to let them know they were cut.  I felt really bad for the kids who weren’t at the right level and got dismissed like that. [/quote]

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