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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For anybody whose DD attended Metro or Paramount tryouts this season (or any of the other more competitive clubs that are a step down from those two), how did the tryout process go there? Just trying to prepare myself for next season when I know my kid is inevitably going to want to tryout for those two clubs. [/quote]

Unless your kid is being recruited by those clubs, they have zero chance of making it. Best thing is to be the superstar on their current team and maybe, you’ll get an informal chat [/quote]

OMG STOP WITH THIS MISINFORMATION! We're 3 years in, we'll see if it changes but so far we ourselves have experienced and know SEVERAL GIRLS who have NOT done clinics... NOT played on teams beforehand (Metro is the club I'm talking the most of here)... and therefore NOT been known to coaches or club staff before tryouts, and our girls and some of their friends GOT OFFERS for U13-U16 so far (not all the girls we know, but some, enough to make it seem common to all of us).

I'm so glad we didn't hear anyone say what you're saying, or we might not have tried for Metro and 2 other next level clubs (very competitive but not Metro or Paramount) and gotten offers at them all. And none of my girls are over 5'7", and mostly they were 5'5" or 5'4" when trying out the 1st 2 yrs.

My advice to new parents: be realistic, if your girl really is brand new to it all, definitely no point in trying out for the better clubs. Ask here which clubs develop girls even if not as competitive and try out.  But if your girl has been playing and plays well in school or in her previous club she did well, even if the club wasn't great, try out, go for Metro, Paramount, whoever you think is best fit plus of course 2+ lower level clubs to have a back up just in case.

NONE of this guarantees your girl(s) will get offers, but keep listening to other parents' experiences and talk to coaches and feel it out.  It is just not true, in our and our girls' friends' experiences, that Metro and many of the other clubs here pre-offer, pre-select their rosters or all the upper age rosters. I don't know anything about Mojo so I believe they do, but 3 yrs now our girls have played for good or top clubs that they tried out for cold and got offers for. And yes, they're good, but they're not outrageously exceptional or anything. Nor are they super tall Amazons.[/quote]

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