Just to put in my point of veiw. My husband is in the exact situation. 10u daughter played on a 10u team last year. This year she had to move up to 12u. coach stayed down. Team in org needed a coach so he took the job. This is his first year coaching. Here are the reasons that we took our daughter to other tryouts, keep in mind the tryouts where at top notch organizations:
1) To let our daughter see how she stacks up and compares to other girls. This will show her how hard she needs to work. This also is an extra practice.2) My husband also wanted to see how other tryouts are conducted, to evaluate talent.
3) You also learn sooo much. All the things that are not widely known. Camps, practice facility's-opportunity's.
4) Before we even found out about this site coachs that ran in town organizations don't tell you -sorry you didn't make the team but you may try somewhere else here is where you can go to help you out. There is so much out there that we are just finding out about because we are getting out and communicating with others. Most teams are just worried about themselves, and don't think about the kids. IF you are a coach and a girl doesn't make your team do you tell them why what they need to improve on and where they might get some help to improve there skills. No they keep things hush hush. Because they are only worried about there own teams image. At one tryout the coach said if they can't hit this number forget it. Why don't they just say at the beginning this is what we want...
With that being said: He has talked with 2 parents and told them that if they didn't find what they was looking for to come check our team out
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And the last time I checked its all about the girls.
J
