At our Nova high school, over 100 kids are trying out (they are extended into next week). I think they have made some decisions before the week or at least know who they will watch closely. The form filled out to tryout asked them to include their team name/league/level. With that many kids trying out, they are certainly using that info to focus their attention. They can’t do it otherwise.

Anonymous wrote:If your kid plays ECNL and does not make varsity than you should really consider how good your kid is. Bottom line, even at the top high schools, if you are a top top player you make varsity, because of how you play and your reputation; if you are a middling ECNL player or just "good" and you cant make your varsity team; imho, it is a wake up call.

pp, I am talking as a freshman

If your kid plays ECNL and does not make varsity than you should really consider how good your kid is. Bottom line, even at the top high schools, if you are a top top player you make varsity, because of how you play and your reputation; if you are a middling ECNL player or just "good" and you cant make your varsity team; imho, it is a wake up call.

I think kids who are serious about club soccer should just not try out for high school. Why join a HS team when you think other things are more important? I would rather we field a slightly less good team than have it be populated with jerks who think they are too good for the team.

We are in Maryland, and my daughter is on a high level club team. All of the girls on her club team play for their high schools too. For most of them, high school soccer has been an awesome experience. They made varsity as freshman, are leaders and captains on their teams, received post-season honors, and got to play with their friends in front of their community. My daughter is in a competitive conference, so she found herself going 1-on-1 against D1 commits her freshman year. She grew a lot as a player and entered club season ready to take on anyone. We are lucky to have a club coach who is supportive of high school and makes sure the girls don’t overdo it during the brief overlap of seasons. We’re in the thick of the recruiting process now and, regardless of where her next steps in soccer take her, I am incredibly grateful that she will have such awesome memories of high school soccer.

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Anonymous wrote:Both my kids made varsity at our highly competitive high school. All players are travel players (boys team and girls team). Most girls are ECNL and most boys are ECNL. And yet, the teams performance has been abysmal over the years.

Multiple rec league only players made JV at our dc's large FCPS high school and multiple travel players were cut from JV. No idea about Varsity.

Yeah, too many big egos on our HS teams.

Anonymous wrote:Both my kids made varsity at our highly competitive high school. All players are travel players (boys team and girls team). Most girls are ECNL and most boys are ECNL. And yet, the teams performance has been abysmal over the years.

Multiple rec league only players made JV at our dc's large FCPS high school and multiple travel players were cut from JV. No idea about Varsity.

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Anonymous wrote:There will be ECNL-level players who don't make it and there will be non-ECNL players who do make it. It is a crapshoot with so many kids--it's unreasonable to expect the coaching staff to really be able to evaluate 100+ kids at a few days of tryouts, and keep in mind a lot of the tryouts are just watching small-sided scrimmages that have nothing to do with the ability to be impactful 11v11 on a full field whether it is stamina, positioning, long-range vision and technical ability etc. Good luck to your DD.

5 days of try-outs?

Good coach would pick up good plays the first sight.
5 times is only to accommodate the good players doing other sports.

Its hard to evaluate 150 kids at the same time.

Friday is the final day for our school. One round of cuts done. Very stressful.

We have over 100 boys trying out at our school, we had cuts Wednesday and Thursday, today is our final day as well.

My son is a Sophomore and got cut last year on Friday. Ugh! Hoping he has better luck this year. We're stressing...

Playing Club is fine, but it's such a Honor to play in High School in front of your peers. I would love for him to experience that....

Sounds like parents trying to live out their dream through the kid

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Anonymous wrote:There will be ECNL-level players who don't make it and there will be non-ECNL players who do make it. It is a crapshoot with so many kids--it's unreasonable to expect the coaching staff to really be able to evaluate 100+ kids at a few days of tryouts, and keep in mind a lot of the tryouts are just watching small-sided scrimmages that have nothing to do with the ability to be impactful 11v11 on a full field whether it is stamina, positioning, long-range vision and technical ability etc. Good luck to your DD.

5 days of try-outs?

Good coach would pick up good plays the first sight.
5 times is only to accommodate the good players doing other sports.

Its hard to evaluate 150 kids at the same time.

Friday is the final day for our school. One round of cuts done. Very stressful.

We have over 100 boys trying out at our school, we had cuts Wednesday and Thursday, today is our final day as well.

My son is a Sophomore and got cut last year on Friday. Ugh! Hoping he has better luck this year. We're stressing...

Playing Club is fine, but it's such a Honor to play in High School in front of your peers. I would love for him to experience that....

Our coach will try to balance time on the field to reduce injury by overplaying, especially the week after Jeff Cup. For tryouts, girls did some drills, then small sided games and teams changed as the girls were sorted. I am not using great soccer wording here, but it was done in three days. Players were picked for team Wed evening, then those returned the next day to learn if they were on Jv or V. I dont think we are the strongest team in NOVA, but I am hopeful that he can reduce overplaying in the form of play time for many and not over playing the top players. This is our freshman year.

Both my kids made varsity at our highly competitive high school. All players are travel players (boys team and girls team). Most girls are ECNL and most boys are ECNL. And yet, the teams performance has been abysmal over the years.

Juniors are eligible for jv.

It is common when the varsity team is very strong, and it pushes some good players down to JV if they choose to accept the offer just to be part of the program and have a shot at varsity during their senior year

Are juniors eligible for JV? Is this common?

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Anonymous wrote:There will be ECNL-level players who don't make it and there will be non-ECNL players who do make it. It is a crapshoot with so many kids--it's unreasonable to expect the coaching staff to really be able to evaluate 100+ kids at a few days of tryouts, and keep in mind a lot of the tryouts are just watching small-sided scrimmages that have nothing to do with the ability to be impactful 11v11 on a full field whether it is stamina, positioning, long-range vision and technical ability etc. Good luck to your DD.

5 days of try-outs?

Good coach would pick up good plays the first sight.
5 times is only to accommodate the good players doing other sports.

Its hard to evaluate 150 kids at the same time.

Friday is the final day for our school. One round of cuts done. Very stressful.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There will be ECNL-level players who don't make it and there will be non-ECNL players who do make it. It is a crapshoot with so many kids--it's unreasonable to expect the coaching staff to really be able to evaluate 100+ kids at a few days of tryouts, and keep in mind a lot of the tryouts are just watching small-sided scrimmages that have nothing to do with the ability to be impactful 11v11 on a full field whether it is stamina, positioning, long-range vision and technical ability etc. Good luck to your DD.

5 days of try-outs?

Good coach would pick up good plays the first sight.
5 times is only to accommodate the good players doing other sports.

Its hard to evaluate 150 kids at the same time.