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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you end up of the bottom court of a tryout there could be a bunch of reasons: the club doesn't need your position, the coach prefers someone else, you don't have the physical "stats" they are looking for, your DD's energy lagged, a skill wasn't good, etc. And sometimes it's just luck, they see you for a small period of time in a large group of people and if you aren't standing out right then they move on to someone else.
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There’s a difference between starting with all the girls in one place and then being sorted to other courts based on observations of at least a little play, vs being sorted to courts at very beginning of tryouts and never having anyone give you a chance to show much skill because everyone else on court was a beginner and no o e seemed to really care about your court.

There’s also a difference between feeling slighted and not getting over it, vs. engaging in a convo about tryout experiences and just sharing what you know. The 2 girls I was referencing in the post you responded to who were started and kept on the bottom court (never observed in a bigger group) each got offers at teams they were happy with that round of tryouts. So they were good and no one was bitter. But being started and left on a bottom court will feel like a waste of money to most if you were never on a court at all with real eyes on you so no one should be surprised at a club that does that if some people make sure to never try out there again.[/quote]
PP here (the one you responded to).
It’s great that the PP and your DD were able to make other clubs.

Everyone experiences what was talked about here eventually. It’s not an unusual occurrence for a player to go to a tryout and never get to an upper court. It’s an unfortunate reality of tryouts.

It doesn’t really matter if they were sorted before the tryout based on clinics or in the first 2 minutes based on how fast they can run to the net and back, or how tall they are or any other of the dozens of ways clubs sort players at the beginning of tryouts.

Clubs have a vested interest in finding good players. Their definition of good may not match ours or that of another club. But they all look good players and it would be highly unusual for a player to come in and never be evaluated. Its against the clubs best interests.

While the tone was definitely off from both the PP and the response from the OP, the question if others were moved off the court does matter in explaining the experience. If other players started on the bottom court and were moved up then it means someone was there watching the court and moving players around. Unfortunately it wasn’t the PP daughter.

Both facts can be true: the DD and PP can be upset because she didn’t get off the bottom court and it can be a standard club tryout with a club that didn’t take an interest in her.

That links to the point I tried to make. With 3-5x more players trying out than spots on teams, the situation discussed is much more common than many realize. Pure math means that some subset of players are going to be on a bottom court from the start and never make it off no matter how much time a club spends evaluating them.

Unfortunately, the tryout process can feel unfair to players. As I described my DD tried out for some clubs she thought she could make and never got off the bottom court. No one in the gym did anything to humiliate her, but the result of the process did.

As parents, we should prepare our kids that tryouts are not easy. A club may decide your  DD doesn’t fit. Another club may love her and give her an offer. Unless you are an incredible player who stands out in a crowd, you will likely have a lot more disappointment than you will success.

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