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[quote=Anonymous]My kid targeted Paramount and VA Juniors (prestigious clubs?) ... among others ... during the November tryouts.  I don't want to flat out say that the pre-tryout clinics were a moneygrab, but we tried to be a bit more strategic going into this season, which would be the second club season for my player.  We really didn't "know" any clubs going into her first club year, so we only went with some word-of-mouth suggestions from fellow high school players.  Our intent with the most recent tryouts was to be ensure that clubs had seen our kid at least once before the tryout weekend.  Before anyone screams, we did not seriously look at Metro as its practices would not work for us logistically.  My kid decided to go to make-up tryout there at the last minute "for fun."  Their rosters were likely set before that make-up, but one coach said something like "We wish we had seen her sooner."

As far as any player movement between clubs, here's what I've observed.  Paramount simply added this year's rosters to their website while keeping last year's rosters online.  As a quick check, it looks like 9 players from the 17s moved up to the 18s (4 ?new? players) while seven players from the 16s moved up to 17s (7 ?new?).  I didn't look too hard to see if some of the "new" players moved up more than one age group.  (My kid is not  playing 17s/18s.)  If you can get the VA Juniors website to work, you will see that they haven't posted this year's rosters, but last year's teams were still there.  I haven't seen VA Juniors play this season, so I couldn't begin to discern if any players are new or returning.  My kid's club from last year hasn't posted this year's rosters, but we've only seen one or two familiar faces from last year.  Most of my kid's team landed at different clubs (apparently two or more ended up at Paramount).[/quote]

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