For what its worth, DD had only two tryouts this season. The first tryout she looked like crap, especially fielding and pitching and was offered a spot on the team (I guess they saw through her poor tryout?). Her second tryout I thought she looked great, hit better than most of the other players and pitched beautifully. She wasn't asked back for a second tryout. The point is that you do the best you can, learn from the experience, and move on.
Weird how things work out sometimes. One thing she has going for her is the head coach this year is her head coach from last year.. he knows her potential and what she is capable of. However the organization has a system in place that scores each individual on how they perform during the tryout to prevent the head coach from picking his favorites. Of course there are the intangibles as well, attitude, effort etc, she's always had positive comments about this part of her game.
I am very critical of my daughters game, however in my heart I no she had a bad tryout, but it might not look so bad to others