Anonymous wrote:I doubt any club will take you to court or put you into collections, but I have seen them hold your card, sometimes long enough for the next club to give away your spot.

If you are a new player to the club, they don't have your card. Who has experience with this post tryout season? I've heard the club doesn't register you until deep into the summer. It can't be that a club has claimed you to their roster for the fall while the Spring season is still underway.

Wondering how this works especially with NCSL and EDP.

read the fine print. I doubt any club will take you to court or put you into collections, but I have seen them hold your card, sometimes long enough for the next club to give away your spot. It's a contract with a business. If you take a spot, that means that the next person on the list probably went somewhere else and although they might be able to find someone to join, it might not be the one they want. If you try and back out, I can see them wanting you to pay

Anonymous wrote:You're free to do whatever you want, but you need to read the fine print when you pay the deposit and accept spot on team. Apart from burning bridges, which maybe you don't care about, you may lose deposit and be locked into paying for whole season. But again, you can do whatever you feel is right for your kid.

Keep in mind that if they lock you into paying, then you can expect them to hold a spot on the team. If they say no, then you are no longer receiving the good that you are paying for

You're free to do whatever you want, but you need to read the fine print when you pay the deposit and accept spot on team. Apart from burning bridges, which maybe you don't care about, you may lose deposit and be locked into paying for whole season. But again, you can do whatever you feel is right for your kid.

If you accept the position you will have to pay for the deposit. We had a family who left shortly after joining the team. They did not get their deposit back. They also cancelled their reoccurring payment.


 

Anonymous wrote:So I took a quick glance at a few larger clubs' stated policy on fees and refunds, and they all do seem to state there are no refunds and that you must pay your full year's fee to be in good standing.

Does anyone have experience successfully leaving without paying the full year's fee? That seems awfully excessive, esp if you haven't started the fall season.

So I took a quick glance at a few larger clubs' stated policy on fees and refunds, and they all do seem to state there are no refunds and that you must pay your full year's fee to be in good standing.

Does anyone have experience successfully leaving without paying the full year's fee? That seems awfully excessive, esp if you haven't started the fall season.

Anonymous wrote:If you piss the coach off then good luck trying to get back on that team.

One coach who may or may not remain with that team? I wouldn't worry

If you piss the coach off then good luck trying to get back on that team.

You will need to do what is best for the player. The clubs have no loyalty to anyone, especially these bigger clubs where a player is just a number.

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Anonymous wrote:Our son has been playing at MYS. He has a lot of friends in Arlington. We already know he'll get an offer after MYS tryouts, but he's seriously considering trying out for Arlington and seeing if he can play with his friends from there. With Arlington being next month, if he accepts MYS spot can he just drop it if he ends up deciding on Arlington next month? I assume we'll lose the deposit for his spot.

No you should stick with the team that you committed to. They expect you to come otherwise they might have invited someone else.

disagree based on my 10 years on travel. Clubs have no problem fing your kid over when it suites them. So always find the best opportunity.

This. The clubs open themselves to this when they schedule tryouts ahead of neighboring clubs.

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Anonymous wrote:Our son has been playing at MYS. He has a lot of friends in Arlington. We already know he'll get an offer after MYS tryouts, but he's seriously considering trying out for Arlington and seeing if he can play with his friends from there. With Arlington being next month, if he accepts MYS spot can he just drop it if he ends up deciding on Arlington next month? I assume we'll lose the deposit for his spot.

No you should stick with the team that you committed to. They expect you to come otherwise they might have invited someone else.

disagree based on my 10 years on travel. Clubs have no problem fing your kid over when it suites them. So always find the best opportunity.

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Anonymous wrote:Who ever first cards your kid with ECNL basically owns then for season.. but like op said they dont card till later and you have to provide info.. so you just lose money

If you are a returning player, they already have your info. No other info is needed.

cards are renewed on a annual basis. So again its the first to resubmitt forms. Every year i have to digitally sign and submitt.. only then can they card your kid

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Anonymous wrote:Our son has been playing at MYS. He has a lot of friends in Arlington. We already know he'll get an offer after MYS tryouts, but he's seriously considering trying out for Arlington and seeing if he can play with his friends from there. With Arlington being next month, if he accepts MYS spot can he just drop it if he ends up deciding on Arlington next month? I assume we'll lose the deposit for his spot.

No you should stick with the team that you committed to. They expect you to come otherwise they might have invited someone else.

It's normal for clubs to reach out to other kids who were at tryouts. I know two girls who didn't make travel last spring, then during the summer they got emails because two teams had openings. They went to the tryouts in June and got on. No travel club ever has issues getting kids on the roster.

Anonymous wrote:Our son has been playing at MYS. He has a lot of friends in Arlington. We already know he'll get an offer after MYS tryouts, but he's seriously considering trying out for Arlington and seeing if he can play with his friends from there. With Arlington being next month, if he accepts MYS spot can he just drop it if he ends up deciding on Arlington next month? I assume we'll lose the deposit for his spot.

No you should stick with the team that you committed to. They expect you to come otherwise they might have invited someone else.

Has anyone on this conversation successfully done this?