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Our local HS had 150 travel soccer kids try out for the varsity team the year before covid. Probably 50 of them were on the top teams for their clubs so all excellent players. They started with a timed run and if you didn't make the very competitive time you got cut automatically but I can guarantee you all of those 50 made it. There were a couple of stars and position mattered of course, but for the rest it seemed pretty random. It was hard to differentiate between many of those top 50. I'm sure politics/pressure from parents who have influence in the school plays in to it as this is a school in a wealthy area. This is the boys side.[/quote]

150 at tryouts seems crazy to me. My son plays on HS team and travel before that. At our HS of probably 1300-1400 kids, there were maybe 35-40 kids trying out. Some of those were good athletes in other sports just looking for something to do in the spring to stay active. Some were rec players who hadn’t played on a team in years. Anyone with travel level experience easily made the team. It’s so different from school to school, and year to year.[/quote]

1300-1400 is a small high school.[/quote]

Not big but not sure I would call that small either. In Virginia that would be a class 4 or 5 school. Class 6 are the biggest. Classes 1-3 are really small typically outside NoVA. Around here class 4 and 5 are the average size [/quote]

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