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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For a talented/competitive child, [b]you attend practices prior to tryouts[/b] and then go to the tryout as a formality. Your interaction with the coach prior to tryouts will likely inform you how much they want you.

For your less talented child, just avoid tryouts by finding a small club where there’s only one team and they play on a league and division where the kid is not the best kid but gets plenty of playing time.

Parents just really need to manage their kids expectations better and have a realistic view of their kids abilities. [/quote]

How does this work, exactly, for a regular kid? You are supposed to email the coach well before tryouts and just ask to practice with the team, for free? That seems weird to me. If your child is a super super star, I guess it works? But 99.99 percent of kids are just regular players.[/quote]

NP. My kid did this for every club he played for and also when choosing a high school.  For clubs, it worked like this: he was working with a trainer and asked about joining a house league team.  She said to do travel instead and told him when her org had tryouts.  The tryout was a formality - we learned later that  she added him to a B team roster before the  tryout.

For high school, DS met the varsity coach on shadow day and asked about the team. Coach invited him to an open gym, and kid was practicing 3 times a week from then on.  It was actually a little weird b/c DS did well playing 5 on 5 with the varsity kids in open gyms as an 8th grader, so he started high school with very (too) high expectations. [/quote]

+1 We also plan to do this for high school.[/quote]

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