Tryout Season

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It really just is crazy that some clubs charge thousands for the season and then even at ecnl level do not provide any formal feedback. While a conversation is great, and should be part of teh process, a formal scoring that can be referenced is really important. Above poster is right that many kids, and especially girls, will only hear negatives and not take in any positives. It can really warp their confidence.

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It really just is crazy that some clubs charge thousands for the season and then even at ecnl level do not provide any formal feedback. While a conversation is great, and should be part of teh process, a formal scoring that can be referenced is really important. Above poster is right that many kids, and especially girls, will only hear negatives and not take in any positives. It can really warp their confidence.

Formal scorecard is the least important part of a player eval IMHO.

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One note, particularly if your kid is a girl. When she asks for feedback, coaches will often focus the feedback on things they feel the kid can improve on. Sometimes with girls in particular, they hear that kind of feedback and take it as a big negative, often subconsciously blocking out any of the positive feedback they get. So probably good to remind you kid to listen for both the things that can improve AND the positive strengths that she can hang her hat on.

A funny insight a coach once shared with me: With a girls team, when the coach addresses the team and says something about needing to do better at dropping back into defense, every girl on the team is thinking "omg he's talking about me". With a boys team addressing the same idea, every boy on the team is thinking "no way he's talking about me". lol

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We are the Shore! Tryouts March 31st-April 7th. Come see what the buzz is all about. With three Jeff Cup trophies in just one weekend, it's no wonder they are the #1 destination club in NJ. Heres your chance to be apart of the future of soccer. We are the Shore!

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Every club and coach has their own way, but generally speaking our experience has been that “early offer letters” go out 2-4 weeks before tryouts with 48 hours to a week deadline to accept. Teams generally want to lock in the current players they want to keep and also determine how many new players they are looking for.

Our son is on a “pre-ecnl” U11 team. We had mid-year reviews in January. This included a writeup and 30 min zoom call with game tape review.

We received the early offer for next year last week for his current team/club. We also received early offer letters last week from 2 other clubs that had identified our son as someone they wanted.

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For girls this year is a mess, with so many EDP & GA players all looking to move. Will definitely take longer than usual.

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For girls this year is a mess, with so many EDP & GA players all looking to move. Will definitely take longer than usual.

Spot on, I think you’ll see major turnover on GA teams now that people see all the top players and clubs bailing. Sad.

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Spot on, I think you’ll see major turnover on GA teams now that people see all the top players and clubs bailing. Sad.

It's sad, but it's the natural evolution of youth sports. I'm just happy that there are no longer dueling top leagues to try and navigate. ECNL won that battle when then DA folded.

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It's sad, but it's the natural evolution of youth sports. I'm just happy that there are no longer dueling top leagues to try and navigate. ECNL won that battle when then DA folded.

Very disappointing and sad to see players leaving for ECNL season after season. I worry that this year post COVID shutdown might be the straw that breaks the GA’s back in terms of long term quality and viability. Not fair that PDA reaps the rewards while clubs like CSA and STA do all the work developing players from U8 and they leave when they hit U14-15 age. Just sad.