Club Tryouts

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No girls teams last year. RISC held tryouts for girls team a couple of weeks ago, but I am unsure if any will actually be formed. They had 20-25 U12/U13 girls trying out and probably 15-20 U10/U11's there. However, most of the girls trying out were also trying out for other premier clubs and/or town association teams - predominantly Lincoln YSA. We'll see what comes out of it.

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No girls teams last year. RISC held tryouts for girls team a couple of weeks ago, but I am unsure if any will actually be formed. They had 20-25 U12/U13 girls trying out and probably 15-20 U10/U11's there. However, most of the girls trying out were also trying out for other premier clubs and/or town association teams - predominantly Lincoln YSA. We'll see what comes out of it.

We probably don't need even more dilution anyway.

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You can call it "dilution". I call it "choices". As a parent, I like having choices where my kids play soccer.

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No girls teams last year. RISC held tryouts for girls team a couple of weeks ago, but I am unsure if any will actually be formed. They had 20-25 U12/U13 girls trying out and probably 15-20 U10/U11's there. However, most of the girls trying out were also trying out for other premier clubs and/or town association teams - predominantly Lincoln YSA. We'll see what comes out of it.

They had 20-25 u12-u13 girls tryout? How did these girls find out about the tryouts? They have this huge turnout (for a RI club with no girls track record) and they are not going to form any teams? Come on! If you are going to make stuff up at least do a better job than that

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Dude, I was there - my daughter went to all of the RISC tryout sessions. The tryouts were advertised in the Valley Breeze for a month. A lot of local northern RI girls went to the tryouts to see what it was all about. Spots have been offered - not sure how many girls have committed.

We're still waiting to hear if in fact there will be a team or not. I'll let you know how it turns out.

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Dude, I was there - my daughter went to all of the RISC tryout sessions. The tryouts were advertised in the Valley Breeze for a month. A lot of local northern RI girls went to the tryouts to see what it was all about. Spots have been offered - not sure how many girls have committed.

We're still waiting to hear if in fact there will be a team or not. I'll let you know how it turns out.

If you are serious I am shocked. most of the other clubs (clubs with established girls teams at the upper levels) had fairly poor turnout for that age groups.

What was the upper age group level for the girls? u13 or older?

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You can call it "dilution". I call it "choices". As a parent, I like having choices where my kids play soccer.

I like having choices as well. But due to all the "choices" there is dilution. Too many of the teams are basically getting just enough kids to fill a team showing up for try-outs.

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You can call it "dilution". I call it "choices". As a parent, I like having choices where my kids play soccer.

This is what is wrong with RI soccer. There are not 18 very good players (boys or girls) in any age group to have 1 really good team let alone 5 or 6. RI soccer will never be taken seriously and RI players will never considered good players when there are so many choices. Lets have 5 or 6 premier teams just so you can say your daughter plays for a premier team. That makes a lot of sense. Good luck being bad forever.

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This is what is wrong with RI soccer. There are not 18 very good players (boys or girls) in any age group to have 1 really good team let alone 5 or 6. RI soccer will never be taken seriously and RI players will never considered good players when there are so many choices. Lets have 5 or 6 premier teams just so you can say your daughter plays for a premier team. That makes a lot of sense. Good luck being bad forever.

I've always thought that a better solution would to have bigger clubs with multiple teams per age group.

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Who's Dennis?

Dennis--I know that guy. He is now Bruno's problem. If you are associated in any way with managing Bruno Soccer Club, you will want to seriously reconsider bringing DM to your team.

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Here's the latest ... I just got an email tonight from RISC telling me that their entire girls program has been scrapped.

Reading between the lines (and talking to parents in the know), it appears that a prominent coach from another RI premier club decided NOT to join RISC after all. With this decision, many of his girls who were at RISC tryouts are staying with this coach at their original club. Simply put, there weren't enough girls to form even a single girls team.

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Like anything else in youth travel sports, it's all about supply and demand. If there's enough demand for 10 teams, then 10 teams will be formed. If there's only enough demand for 5 teams, then 5 teams will be formed. Regardless of how hard they try, SRI authorities cannot regulate supply and demand. Ultimately, parents will find places for their kids to play that are the best fit for their respective kids.

The better players generally will gravitate to the most successful (meaning: winningest) teams because that's where their parents will want them to play. Parents of talented players want their kids to play with other talented players.

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Here's the latest ... I just got an email tonight from RISC telling me that their entire girls program has been scrapped.

Reading between the lines (and talking to parents in the know), it appears that a prominent coach from another RI premier club decided NOT to join RISC after all. With this decision, many of his girls who were at RISC tryouts are staying with this coach at their original club. Simply put, there weren't enough girls to form even a single girls team.

That's what I thought would happen.

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Sounds you knew more about the situation than I did.

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Sounds you knew more about the situation than I did.

Probably not much more. I just know a number of people that would have been interested, and there are not that many. I also have seen that the established local clubs do not have people knocking down their doors to get a spot.

Rhode Island could be a regional powerhouse but not by adding more clubs. Only by merging a number of clubs and having multiple teams per age group would we be really competitive.