Looking for some ideas on the best way to design our HS softball tryouts at the end of the month.
We're only going to have a Varsity team. Right now, 21 girls signed up for tryouts, but my experience with last year tells me a few of them will never show up or will come once and never again. Those may be canceled out by some late signups. I expect to have to cut a few since we aren't going to keep more than 15. Around half the girls have never played any kind of organized ball before. This is a first-year Varsity program, so keep that in mind. I don't think we even have any travel ball players (maybe 1 or 2, but they might just do a rec league).
At the tryouts, the junior high coaches are going to join us to help evaluate, so there will be 5 coaches there to run stations/evaluate. I consider myself lucky to have this much help.
Also, we're in Chicago, so we will almost certainly be inside a small gym.
I've seen a lot about splitting them up and rotating stations. I'll probably have to do a decent amount of demonstration for the inexperienced girls.
So should I have a single coach at each station to evaluate? Should coaches rotate to evaluate different skills? We're doing two days of tryouts, so should we do everything both days (Day 2 being something of a second chance) or some skills on Day 1 and others on Day 2?
I know tryouts tend to have a little more standing around than a good practice, but I want to be as efficient as possible. Any help is appreciated, as always.
We're only going to have a Varsity team. Right now, 21 girls signed up for tryouts, but my experience with last year tells me a few of them will never show up or will come once and never again. Those may be canceled out by some late signups. I expect to have to cut a few since we aren't going to keep more than 15. Around half the girls have never played any kind of organized ball before. This is a first-year Varsity program, so keep that in mind. I don't think we even have any travel ball players (maybe 1 or 2, but they might just do a rec league).
At the tryouts, the junior high coaches are going to join us to help evaluate, so there will be 5 coaches there to run stations/evaluate. I consider myself lucky to have this much help.
Also, we're in Chicago, so we will almost certainly be inside a small gym.
I've seen a lot about splitting them up and rotating stations. I'll probably have to do a decent amount of demonstration for the inexperienced girls.
So should I have a single coach at each station to evaluate? Should coaches rotate to evaluate different skills? We're doing two days of tryouts, so should we do everything both days (Day 2 being something of a second chance) or some skills on Day 1 and others on Day 2?
I know tryouts tend to have a little more standing around than a good practice, but I want to be as efficient as possible. Any help is appreciated, as always.