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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anybody heard anything about how the U15-U18 tryouts shook out? Any surprises from the top dogs (Metro, Paramount)? Did any clubs make a big jump or a sharp decline? I heard Jrs and VAE took big lumps this weekend, and that Metro and Paramount each got stronger.

For those who tried out for Tier 3/4 clubs, how was the tryout process? Did you have to do tryouts at a lot of different clubs?[/quote]

What do you mean “big lumps”? We were at VAE 17s tryout, among others, and it was mobbed. No offer but a lot of kids there. Didn’t try juniors.[/quote]

+1.  I'm going to call it out.  There is clearly an anti-VAE person/people on this thread from the beginning.  We get it - your kid plays for Metro or Paramount and you need to keep up the boosting for whatever reason.  VAE is still an outstanding club, that is just different from the others.  Year after year VAE has many of the top HS players in the region, including last year's Gatorade Player of the Year (who played there 13-18), and still has a 100% college recruitment track record. Plenty of fair criticism about the way they do things esp at younger age groups.  Agree with all that.   But if you think they are hurting for talent at 16 - 18, you are just wrong.  Quite a few sad kids this weekend who got cut from last season and alternates waiting for a phone call.  VAE is doing their thing and doing just fine.  [/quote]

Not the OP about VAE, and agree that some people have a biased view.  Objectively though, at U16 VAE had some big turnover, [b]some players leaving for other clubs[/b] by the players choice, along with some leaving by the clubs choice.  Of course they have a list of new players that want to come in and a waitlist, but they aren’t unique there—every good club has waitlists a mile long this year.

VAE has a great recruiting processes, but one note about recruiting stats that applies to all clubs: if you cut a player that doesn’t have a chance to play in and/or does want to, then the club doesn’t offer them.  If you replace them with a player already getting recruited or expected to, then the new club gets the credit when they sign.  VAE has a better track record than some clubs of developing players over multiple years, but all the top clubs play this game.  I wish we had a stat on how many players from U15-U18 who stayed with the club all 4 years were recruited, which would really tell us if a club is good at developing players, or just good at recruiting players who were developed from other clubs.[/quote]

Source for the bolded statement?  DD's HS teammate was a VAE 15 last year and is devastated she was cut for 16s.  Said half the team was cut and nobody left by choice.  DD didn't even tryout there b/c went to one fall clinic and felt like there wouldn't be many openings and they would be hard to get.  [/quote]

VAE lost their best rising 18s player (Ebo) to Metro and lost their best rising 17s player to Paramount. The rising 17s and rising 18s teams were already pretty bad, and that was with those two very strong players...[/quote]

None of those are U16, which is what the bolded statement said was where the "big lumps" were[/quote]

Plugged in parent here. I have not heard of any major shakeups with VAE rising 16s. I know that Metro did a lot of damage by snagging up a lot of the better talent in that age group that did not already play for them.[/quote]

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