Try-outs

Today was our first day of try-outs. 15 boys showed up: 4 eighth graders and 11 seventh. Before even seeing anybody in action, I had a pretty good idea who my first eight players are going to be. The most interesting angle on today came yesterday and weeks before.

Originally, I intended to launch our first ever 5th/6th grade team. However, we only have ten boys in the 5th/6th grade, 2 of them have no interest in playing and three others most certainly will not remain eligible for the entire season. So, I had to kill that idea. After realizing that team would not happen, I realized that I had a lot of 7th grade boys that were interested in playing ball this year but lacked the experience and skill to compete with the teams we will play this year. My solution was to ask the other athletic directors in our conference if they would mind our "B" team (made up of those smaller, less experienced 7th graders) playing their 5th/6th grade teams. All but one school agreed at last night's AD meeting so it looks like I will not have to have any cuts after all.

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After the second day of try-outs we picked up two more 8th graders, one who will probably compete to start and get minutes and the other who is told old to play on our "B" squad but will need to put in some work to get minutes. We also had a couple more seventh graders show up who will round out the "B" team at 7.

This weekend we head to Minnocqua for our mini-camp. I am really looking forward to this...