The core of the team has been playing together - spring, fall, and winter - for 2-4 years. It’d just suck to see some of the girls not on the team.
There’s a catch 22 with this as well. My son is I’d say an above average soccer player. Every year he tries out for the advanced travel team and doesn’t make it. I’ve watched the tryouts and he’s better than most kids. They say every kid has to try out no matter if you were on the advanced team previously or not. But it’s obvious the coaches pick the kids they know.
In a way that makes sense because a 1.5 hour tryout can be deceiving. On the other hand my son gets frustrated because he keeps trying out, does well, but never makes the team. His development falls behind the other kids because of it and just makes it harder for him to move up.
That’s just a garbage situation. I only missed the cut once when I was younger, and it was 100% due to the coach playing favorites to his kid and their friends, most of whom were not good, and only lasted that one season.
I spoke with the coach tonight after practice to get an idea about what was going on. A few nearby teams had girls that didn’t make the team, and are looking to play. Nobody knows how many, but I think best case is that we add 2-3 good girls to the squad and roll. However, if 10-15 girls show up to tryouts (on top of the current roster), things could get messy. He said he’s not worried about my daughter, but you never know, especially since it’ll be an independent group of coaches making the decision. I’m hoping that the fact that she plays defense works in her favor, too, because not many seem to want to play that position. Tryouts are in the next two weeks.
No exaggeration. Then we were removed from the group chat.