It's time for that most annoying of chores; TB tryouts. Yes, teams are still playing with their current teams, but the craziness begins about this time of year.
You can add many gripes to the list. Here's one of mine:
Let's say your DD is interested in City Gold Elite Organization (made-up name). They have several teams in your child's age division ranging from decent to legitimately elite. The City Gold Elite Org carries a certain cache in your region and wearing that jersey would have a lot of benefits, even if you are only on one of the lower level teams.
So, you peruse the local boards and see multiple ads pertaining to City Gold Elite. You see ads for individual teams offering "open workouts" (meaning come practice alongside the team) to individual teams offering a specific tryout time to the dreaded "Organizational Cattle Call," I mean "Tryout."
Your kid is really interested in City Gold Elite, but can't really commit three or four different times/days to trying out for/working out with them because that would essentially mean putting all your eggs in one basket and possibly missing times with other teams that might be a good fit as well.
My gripe is with trying to sort through all the ads and figure out which is the BEST time to show up. They might give offers to studs right away as they see them and if you wait until the Org tryouts to get in front of them, you're too late. And, of course, all the good orgs have their tryouts on the same weekend.
UGH. Would love to hear other gripes and suggestions.
You can add many gripes to the list. Here's one of mine:
Let's say your DD is interested in City Gold Elite Organization (made-up name). They have several teams in your child's age division ranging from decent to legitimately elite. The City Gold Elite Org carries a certain cache in your region and wearing that jersey would have a lot of benefits, even if you are only on one of the lower level teams.
So, you peruse the local boards and see multiple ads pertaining to City Gold Elite. You see ads for individual teams offering "open workouts" (meaning come practice alongside the team) to individual teams offering a specific tryout time to the dreaded "Organizational Cattle Call," I mean "Tryout."
Your kid is really interested in City Gold Elite, but can't really commit three or four different times/days to trying out for/working out with them because that would essentially mean putting all your eggs in one basket and possibly missing times with other teams that might be a good fit as well.
My gripe is with trying to sort through all the ads and figure out which is the BEST time to show up. They might give offers to studs right away as they see them and if you wait until the Org tryouts to get in front of them, you're too late. And, of course, all the good orgs have their tryouts on the same weekend.
UGH. Would love to hear other gripes and suggestions.