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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was at a tryout for a travel club recently and was wondering this for my son who is trying out for the club for the first time.  It was a zoo.  I don't have a good sense of how many kids were there, but maybe 70?  Probably 2/3 were with the club this year so trying out for team placement and the remaining 1/3 are trying out for the first time.  I do not know how the coaches could possibly determine not only which kids make the club, but where to place them watching the 4X4 scrimmages for an hour or so.  For the current players, they obviously know because they've been with the club all year, but how about the new kids?  The kids had numbers but no one really seemed to be taking notes or anything.  This is a fairly young age so it is hard to believe that they are getting recommendations from other coaches (most of which probably are rec) but the team placement of any "new" players who make the club has to be pretty random.  (Although my son is big so it sounds like he had going for him...)
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Which club was it? ...Just a few thoughts: The travel coaches know the rec coaches and the rec coaches will give recommendations and tell the travel coach any and all sorts of information on those kids. Our club measures newcomers on general stuff like: technique, attitude, speed, soccer 'smarts.' Because yes, it is hard to learn a lot about a kid you are just seeing for the first time (thus all those recommendations and info passed along really do help).[/quote]

Don't want to say the club but it is a large one.

What you wrote makes sense, but I just didn't see how that was happening.  There were 3-4 coaches wandering around 8 different scrimmages and no note taking.  Only one of the coaches spent time at my son's scrimmage.  The paperwork asked where my son played now, but no one ever asked the name of my son's (volunteer, parent) coach.  I doubt they know him and that they contacted him.  Perhaps I should have taken the initiative and asked for a recommendation from my son's current coach.  Perhaps this tells me something about the club too.[/quote]

Our club asks for zero input from Rec coaches for travel teams.  My husband and I have coached 4 rec teams--K-2nd--fall, indoor winter and spring.  We know the standouts.  We know the troublemakers.  We both played soccer college-level.  I could easily assemble the teams:).  Nope. Nobody asked. [/quote]

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