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Based on our experience, not doing the fall training with MOCO reduces your chances of making a team. Participation in the fall training might show some sort of commitment to the club. But that's not all: they get to know the players during the fall training program and they give the participants additional rope. We know one player who was offered a spot on a MOCO team, even though she could not show up at the tryouts (because of an injury). The offer was based entirely on her participation at the fall training. [/quote]

That's just not fair.[/quote]
Not sure if the injured player had played for MOCO in a prior season, but picking teams is a difficult balancing act for the clubs. Most clubs generally have some loyalty to players who played for them in the prior season and that makes sense. Starting the season with a core group that has played together before is definitely an advantage. But it’s also a good idea to add new players to the team, hopefully to help the overall team improve. But that can lead to situations where players who played for a club for one or more seasons don’t get offers which is a difficult thing to do.

[b]The important thing for parents and prospective players to know that every season is not empty roster that is picked solely on how a player performs at tryouts. Returners, players a club has gotten to know through clinics or high school volleyball, and other factors are all as important (if not more) than what happens at tryouts. So have a few options for potential clubs and make an effort to have your DD get to know those clubs (and vice versa) before tryouts. [/b]
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The thing the bolded part of your statement leaves out that is probably the MOST determinative of who ends up on the team after tryouts is that if girls who the coaches have never laid eyes on ever in their lives show up at tryouts and slay the tryouts - like truly stand out as really good or great - there are very few teams that will say no to those players just to keep familiar alumni players on the team.  MOCO is one of many clubs who, if you go back through the last couple of years of post-tryout reports/complaints from parents, you'll see several posts of parents having been told their girl was definitely going to be put on X team, but then tryouts come and go and they get no offer, or they get an offer for a lower tier team in the club like a Rec team.  You show up super well at tryouts, most clubs will fill the roster with whoever they think shined brightest and usually only really hold spots for their tried and true superstars.  [/quote]

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