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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bringing this back to OP’s original post about families leaving the team. Curious to know how often does your travel team (name the sport) have tryouts? What’s the time commitment? Does this schedule/length of commitment change as kids get older?

Seems like most of our friends with kids playing AAUP basketball have tryouts every season (fall, winter, spring). I know that baseball (at least for 14u and younger) tends to be a yearlong commitment but the timing of different clubs is varies—some are winter/spring/fall and others are fall/winter/spring—and payment for the year is often front loaded. I imagine the shorter tryout/commitment/payment cycle lends itself to greater movement, but maybe not. [/quote]

AAU. Fake tryouts in fall mostly to replace players who have either left or focus on other sports in the fall. I've never seen a returning player cut fall tryouts. Real tryouts are in winter for spring/summer season and there are a lot of cuts. DD's roster has lost as many as half one year. She's been with the same club on the same team for 5 years. There is only one other teammate who started with her. Most of the second team is former first team players, but others left for different clubs or quit the sport. It's a high level team that is very clear about continually seeking to improve and it draws a lot of interest from out of the area for high school age groups, so the cuts are expected. The commitments are technically spring summer and then fall winter, but practices never really stop other than a quick break in August [/quote]

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