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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

Did they just do regular tryouts to pick the Blue and Gold 12U teams, top to Blue and next best to Gold? I've been at the rink and seen both teams a few times, and thought while Blue was definitely better there were a few Gold players who were much stronger than the weaker Blue players. I didn't know if maybe it was a major/minor split or some of the Gold players didn't want to do the coed schedule or something. Or maybe it was just that some players developed more between tryouts and the season.

They did do regular tryouts for the 12u girls teams last year.  I believe if someone were to watch more than a few practices and saw games they would conclude that the girls are appropriately placed.  Both teams had majors and minors, but the blue team was mostly 2014s.  It is essentially a girls AAA team - they made playoffs in the CBHL UA co-ed division and in the AHF, and are on track to play co-ed AA this year (along with AAA girls tournaments).  To address another poster’s comments, I don’t think MYHA is throwing extra resources at the blue team, but the families pay a bit more for, e.g., extra tournaments and the girls/families are focused on development similar to how AAA teams approach it.  In terms of MYHA taking certain steps to keep the 12u girls long term, I’m not sure that’s a motivation as most of the girls will go to the Pride at 14u (or another girls’ AAA organization).

Apparently there were a lot of complaints about 12U Blue taking "friends and family" instead of the best overall players at tryouts this year.[/

Sounds like sour grapes.  Decisions have to be made (with considerations like positions, etc) and the strongest team was selected.  If they did indeed take friends and family who aren’t qualified for the team then I guess they won’t be as strong, which would be a very odd choice given the lofty goals of this team.[/quote]

My kids are both boys so I have no insight into the girls program, but I looked at the jersey numbers that made the two 12U Girls teams and skipped around during some of the LiveBarn for their tryouts. Some of the choices seemed....questionable. I don't know these players and only watched about 10-15 minutes but some of the players I thought would be cut from both teams ended up on Blue. No idea if this is the friends/family thing being discussed, but some super weird decisions.[/quote]

I just looked and the LiveBarn is password protected. Care to share the password with all of us or are you just totally making things up? [/quote]

Not sure how Rockville does it I know some rinks have privacy passwords they share with families in their programs or coaches. Couldn't tell you if it changes for tryouts or anything. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they are a MYHA coach and have the password?[/quote]

The live barns are open for everything else and closed for tryouts. [/quote]

If parents don't have it then I would guess the person watching they tryout feeds and who had the numbers of the players making the team must be a coach?[/quote]

Go to the rink for tryouts, ask 10 random parents what the LiveBarn privacy code is, and I bet you get it from nearly half of them.[/quote]

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