Tryouts for Long Island Club teams at 2017. A word from experience.
A) Do not fall for the recruiting sell. Most of the top programs have their classes all filled up. Put your money into ACT/SAT prep it is way better spent.
B) If you get placed on the B team run. All B teams are mismanaged past 10th grade. You will show up to tournaments with 12 kids and no goalie. Go to a tournament in Mass and have 12 kids dressed for three games in 90 degree weather. Its a cluster#$@%.
C) Profesional Coaching: There is no focus on development, only on how cool a bucket hat they picked up for this tournament.
Again, Run if you are placed on the B team. They won't pull you up for that special tournament. They'll call on somebody from their 2018 squad because he's friends with the coach.
Run, Run, Run.
Everybody should listen to this advice!! So, true! We went through the same school or hard knocks. B-team is only there to fund the A-team and pad the program coffers. You are a fool if you fall for the B-team sell job. I've heard it all - Will So and so, and Bob so and so were once on the B-team and then were All-Americans. Maybe true but what are the odds? Better to run to the ACT tutor and just do individual showcases/prospect days.
