It may seem over the top to some parents, but even at the 2030 level, the more success a team has, the more important it is to reach out and contact the coach of a team, as opposed to just showing up for tryouts and hoping to get seen. Making that connection with the coach can help and make a difference. Even at this young age, the successful, higher level teams are probably not going to want to change up their roster too much. Coaches are going to have loyalty to their current players because those players are why the team has had success. If your daughter possesses a skill set that you feel sets her apart from others don’t be afraid to mention that if you do try to contact the coach. Your daughter may be invited to a practice which would be beneficial for both sides-coach gets to see her play without having to compete against other prospects and your daughter gets to meet the team.

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Anonymous wrote:Tryouts for the better clubs don’t really matter at this age. The teams already know which girls they are planning to bring on the team, usually the ones whose parents are friends with current parents, or girls who are truly standout players.

Do not waste your time and money sending your daughter to the summer tryouts unless you know you already have a spot on the team or are satisfied with the money grab B team for these clubs.

Honestly, you should be emailing the coach/director, telling them yo are interested in tryouts and providing game film.

This is laughable for 2030s. Grow up

What does this mean? If you think you are showing up out of the blue with 50 others girls there and maybe 2 open spots and you are just going to shine, you got a lot to learn.

If you are good, your film shows. You might have already played the team you are trying out for.

When there are 50 girls at tryouts it means all but 2 spots on the A team are going to girls staying from the prior year and the other 2 spots are likely going to girls that know the A team families socially. Everyone else will make the B team and if you are unknown you are definitely B team material.

This isn't how great teams are built. I mean it might happen but they are going to try to take the best players, and if they can weaken a rival at same time, they will.

No coach wants the pressure of playing a friends kid when they are a liability on the field.

In theory this is how it should work. In application, nope. You are dealing with coaches who have friends, parents that know the director, daughter of coaches of other teams in the club, etc.

Unless your girl is an absolute stud, it would be a good idea to start getting acquainted with the right people.

Similarly if some parents on the team don’t like you, your daughter will be a “bad fit” for the team no matter how good she is.

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Anonymous wrote:Tryouts for the better clubs don’t really matter at this age. The teams already know which girls they are planning to bring on the team, usually the ones whose parents are friends with current parents, or girls who are truly standout players.

Do not waste your time and money sending your daughter to the summer tryouts unless you know you already have a spot on the team or are satisfied with the money grab B team for these clubs.

Honestly, you should be emailing the coach/director, telling them yo are interested in tryouts and providing game film.

This is laughable for 2030s. Grow up

What does this mean? If you think you are showing up out of the blue with 50 others girls there and maybe 2 open spots and you are just going to shine, you got a lot to learn.

If you are good, your film shows. You might have already played the team you are trying out for.

When there are 50 girls at tryouts it means all but 2 spots on the A team are going to girls staying from the prior year and the other 2 spots are likely going to girls that know the A team families socially. Everyone else will make the B team and if you are unknown you are definitely B team material.

This isn't how great teams are built. I mean it might happen but they are going to try to take the best players, and if they can weaken a rival at same time, they will.

No coach wants the pressure of playing a friends kid when they are a liability on the field.

In theory this is how it should work. In application, nope. You are dealing with coaches who have friends, parents that know the director, daughter of coaches of other teams in the club, etc.

Unless your girl is an absolute stud, it would be a good idea to start getting acquainted with the right people.

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Anonymous wrote:Tryouts for the better clubs don’t really matter at this age. The teams already know which girls they are planning to bring on the team, usually the ones whose parents are friends with current parents, or girls who are truly standout players.

Do not waste your time and money sending your daughter to the summer tryouts unless you know you already have a spot on the team or are satisfied with the money grab B team for these clubs.

Honestly, you should be emailing the coach/director, telling them yo are interested in tryouts and providing game film.

This is laughable for 2030s. Grow up

What does this mean? If you think you are showing up out of the blue with 50 others girls there and maybe 2 open spots and you are just going to shine, you got a lot to learn.

If you are good, your film shows. You might have already played the team you are trying out for.

When there are 50 girls at tryouts it means all but 2 spots on the A team are going to girls staying from the prior year and the other 2 spots are likely going to girls that know the A team families socially. Everyone else will make the B team and if you are unknown you are definitely B team material.

This isn't how great teams are built. I mean it might happen but they are going to try to take the best players, and if they can weaken a rival at same time, they will.

No coach wants the pressure of playing a friends kid when they are a liability on the field.

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Anonymous wrote:Tryouts for the better clubs don’t really matter at this age. The teams already know which girls they are planning to bring on the team, usually the ones whose parents are friends with current parents, or girls who are truly standout players.

Do not waste your time and money sending your daughter to the summer tryouts unless you know you already have a spot on the team or are satisfied with the money grab B team for these clubs.

Honestly, you should be emailing the coach/director, telling them yo are interested in tryouts and providing game film.

This is laughable for 2030s. Grow up

What does this mean? If you think you are showing up out of the blue with 50 others girls there and maybe 2 open spots and you are just going to shine, you got a lot to learn.

If you are good, your film shows. You might have already played the team you are trying out for.

When there are 50 girls at tryouts it means all but 2 spots on the A team are going to girls staying from the prior year and the other 2 spots are likely going to girls that know the A team families socially. Everyone else will make the B team and if you are unknown you are definitely B team material.

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Anonymous wrote:Tryouts for the better clubs don’t really matter at this age. The teams already know which girls they are planning to bring on the team, usually the ones whose parents are friends with current parents, or girls who are truly standout players.

Do not waste your time and money sending your daughter to the summer tryouts unless you know you already have a spot on the team or are satisfied with the money grab B team for these clubs.

Honestly, you should be emailing the coach/director, telling them yo are interested in tryouts and providing game film.

This is laughable for 2030s. Grow up

What does this mean? If you think you are showing up out of the blue with 50 others girls there and maybe 2 open spots and you are just going to shine, you got a lot to learn.

If you are good, your film shows. You might have already played the team you are trying out for.

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Anonymous wrote:Tryouts for the better clubs don’t really matter at this age. The teams already know which girls they are planning to bring on the team, usually the ones whose parents are friends with current parents, or girls who are truly standout players.

Do not waste your time and money sending your daughter to the summer tryouts unless you know you already have a spot on the team or are satisfied with the money grab B team for these clubs.

The teams for the most part are already pre-determined before tryouts. It's a lot of "who you know" type BS. There might be 1 or 2 roster spots that the team might have open. Even then they probably already know who will take those spots.

For this precise reason I wouldn't discount some B teams. It's because there are undeserving girls in A teams, that legit A players end up in B teams. Some B teams are real good and have beaten so called A teams.

It’s pretty rare for 2030 B teams to beat A teams. Even when the individual talent is similar for a couple of B team girls the A teams get better coaching and significantly more practice time plus the entire A team is pretty skilled rather than just a few girls on B. I understand why people accept a spot on a B team if they’re looking for a fun activity and aren’t planning to be competitive later but for those girls who want to be strong high school players you need to find your way on a team in the NGLL A division at this age.

Agreed. Playing for a B team rarely leads to improvement

Agree to disagree on this. There's a couple of B teams doing well. Let's see how the 29 and 30 HW teams do in summer tourney play.

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Anonymous wrote:Tryouts for the better clubs don’t really matter at this age. The teams already know which girls they are planning to bring on the team, usually the ones whose parents are friends with current parents, or girls who are truly standout players.

Do not waste your time and money sending your daughter to the summer tryouts unless you know you already have a spot on the team or are satisfied with the money grab B team for these clubs.

The teams for the most part are already pre-determined before tryouts. It's a lot of "who you know" type BS. There might be 1 or 2 roster spots that the team might have open. Even then they probably already know who will take those spots.

For this precise reason I wouldn't discount some B teams. It's because there are undeserving girls in A teams, that legit A players end up in B teams. Some B teams are real good and have beaten so called A teams.

It’s pretty rare for 2030 B teams to beat A teams. Even when the individual talent is similar for a couple of B team girls the A teams get better coaching and significantly more practice time plus the entire A team is pretty skilled rather than just a few girls on B. I understand why people accept a spot on a B team if they’re looking for a fun activity and aren’t planning to be competitive later but for those girls who want to be strong high school players you need to find your way on a team in the NGLL A division at this age.

Agreed. Playing for a B team rarely leads to improvement

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Anonymous wrote:Tryouts for the better clubs don’t really matter at this age. The teams already know which girls they are planning to bring on the team, usually the ones whose parents are friends with current parents, or girls who are truly standout players.

Do not waste your time and money sending your daughter to the summer tryouts unless you know you already have a spot on the team or are satisfied with the money grab B team for these clubs.

Honestly, you should be emailing the coach/director, telling them yo are interested in tryouts and providing game film.

This is laughable for 2030s. Grow up

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Anonymous wrote:Tryouts for the better clubs don’t really matter at this age. The teams already know which girls they are planning to bring on the team, usually the ones whose parents are friends with current parents, or girls who are truly standout players.

Do not waste your time and money sending your daughter to the summer tryouts unless you know you already have a spot on the team or are satisfied with the money grab B team for these clubs.

The teams for the most part are already pre-determined before tryouts. It's a lot of "who you know" type BS. There might be 1 or 2 roster spots that the team might have open. Even then they probably already know who will take those spots.

For this precise reason I wouldn't discount some B teams. It's because there are undeserving girls in A teams, that legit A players end up in B teams. Some B teams are real good and have beaten so called A teams.

It’s pretty rare for 2030 B teams to beat A teams. Even when the individual talent is similar for a couple of B team girls the A teams get better coaching and significantly more practice time plus the entire A team is pretty skilled rather than just a few girls on B. I understand why people accept a spot on a B team if they’re looking for a fun activity and aren’t planning to be competitive later but for those girls who want to be strong high school players you need to find your way on a team in the NGLL A division at this age.

Anonymous wrote:Tryouts for the better clubs don’t really matter at this age. The teams already know which girls they are planning to bring on the team, usually the ones whose parents are friends with current parents, or girls who are truly standout players.

Do not waste your time and money sending your daughter to the summer tryouts unless you know you already have a spot on the team or are satisfied with the money grab B team for these clubs.

The teams for the most part are already pre-determined before tryouts. It's a lot of "who you know" type BS. There might be 1 or 2 roster spots that the team might have open. Even then they probably already know who will take those spots.

For this precise reason I wouldn't discount some B teams. It's because there are undeserving girls in A teams, that legit A players end up in B teams. Some B teams are real good and have beaten so called A teams.

Anonymous wrote:Tryouts for the better clubs don’t really matter at this age. The teams already know which girls they are planning to bring on the team, usually the ones whose parents are friends with current parents, or girls who are truly standout players.

Do not waste your time and money sending your daughter to the summer tryouts unless you know you already have a spot on the team or are satisfied with the money grab B team for these clubs.

Honestly, you should be emailing the coach/director, telling them yo are interested in tryouts and providing game film.

Tryouts for the better clubs don’t really matter at this age. The teams already know which girls they are planning to bring on the team, usually the ones whose parents are friends with current parents, or girls who are truly standout players.

Do not waste your time and money sending your daughter to the summer tryouts unless you know you already have a spot on the team or are satisfied with the money grab B team for these clubs.

Is it too early to talk about tryouts yet? BLC's is only a month away. Anybody know when Coppermine's are?

Anonymous wrote:Jesters is a good team. They probably have the best chance. Should be an interesting weekend.

Not even close. MnD beat them handily