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Dec 17, 2015
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Chesapeake, VA
So I was at our board meeting discussing how to get the older division filled. To my surprise, the local high school teams haven't had their tryouts yet. The season starts mid March and tryouts are in two weeks. I would have figured tryouts would be done by now. Anyone else find this odd?
 
Jul 19, 2014
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Madison, WI
Not really that odd. Softball is a spring sport in most places, so the tryouts are usually after the winter season has ended, in case any of the players were on some winter teams.

Around these parts they have practices for a while before the tryouts, which pushes the tryouts back a couple of weeks. But in the upper Midwest, the season starts later, and even then there may be a few weeks delay due to snow on the fields. Sometimes half the season gets mooshed into the last week.
 
Nov 18, 2013
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Not at all. Tryouts for HS sports are typically a couple weeks before the season starts.
 
Sep 29, 2014
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Welcome to the world of HS sports. My guess is you have three seasons like everyone else Fall, Winter and Spring usually the sports don't overlap so students can compete in each season that's how you get three sport stars.

Here in Connecticut there is no contact allowed until March 21st for Spring Sports which means tryouts start March 21st. Basically the season is all of April and May.
 
Dec 17, 2015
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Chesapeake, VA
Well then so far I'm the odd one, lol. I got a while before high school stuff but the entire system has really changed since I went to school. The demands they have on my first grader are crazy.
 
Aug 26, 2011
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Houston, Texas
So I was at our board meeting discussing how to get the older division filled. To my surprise, the local high school teams haven't had their tryouts yet. The season starts mid March and tryouts are in two weeks. I would have figured tryouts would be done by now. Anyone else find this odd?

Nope...tryouts here were 1/23, season officially starts 2/23...we unofficially started with scrimmages last week.
 
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Feb 3, 2016
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In Ohio our tryouts start Feb. 22 and the season starts March 28 if weather permits

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