Ferda

This is so aggravating as a parent whose child tried out at SP (and several other orgs), had a shortened tryout, 18u general cancelled, they then hold a supplemental (while not contacting those who already paid), and then fold. Tryout money down the drain. Heck, maybe next year, we just wait for supplementals since tryouts at numerous places went this route. How is this process helpful to the players who do the tryout grind, have played at that level but are an unknown, and then orgs hold supplemental trying to find good enough players!?! It’s insane. Player development seems to be the last idea in tryouts. It starts to come across as all about winning and hand picking teams. With all the jockeying, there needs to be some introspection and creative changes to tryouts. It is not serving the players. At this point, they should just hold a city wide tryout per age division and skill level. Get creative bc the current system is awful. I’m glad my player finally landed somewhere bc April was insane. The 18u funnel is super hard on kids trying to find a team.

My son tried out for Esmark 14u (2009), and we were a bit shocked with only 12 skaters named to the team today along with this “supplemental” tryout on Monday 4/17/23. Which ironically is 1 day after Pens 2009 try-outs. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what’s going on here…..