ODP

For 06 girls, same coach as last year, David Said.

I'll be curious to see how long it takes to reach out to the new players wanting an evaluation.  I know my daughter would have been really happy if they had come to watch her game this past Sunday since she had a really good game.  My guess is the "Scout Team" wants to fill the '09 roster first, then they will move onto the potential new player evaluations for the older ages.  We just have no idea when that will be.

How are those $45 evaluations going?

Just got an email to bring my child to the first training session for the last step in Evaluation by the scout team. I'm not aware of how or when they evaluated my child but they already did twice.

I just received the email that we are to the final stage of evaluations, which is to attend the first training session...tomorrow.

- The first practice is being held this Friday, October 23rd from 7-9 PM at Arizona Avenue Fields: 161 Arizona Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30307.
- Please note that only NEW players will be at the first training session!
- After this first session, players will then be invited to the second practice on November 1st with the returning players.

Yeah, our (2006 girls) first practice is returning and new players this Friday night. Our pool is likely still very small also. About 75% of the players are returning, notable exceptions are some ECNL players (which makes sense).

The $45 evaluations for the 2009s were terrible.  They gave the kids T-shirts with numbers printed on the back and then proceeded to have half of the kids wear solid green Publix pennies so that the coaches could not see the numbers.  The entire night I only saw one coach ask a kid wearing a penny what his number was.

How did the Friday night practice and tryouts go? How many trying out?

For the 2007 girls, there were 30 players that showed up, 2 of them being GKs.  Of the 2 GKs, one should definitely make it.  We have seen her in the past and think she could be the best 2007 keeper in the state.  I guess she didn't play ODP last year, so she was at tryouts this year.

Of the remaining 28, my daughter believes about a dozen were attacking players and the remaining 16 were either midfielders or defenders.

For the first hour they warmed up, the coach went around to speak with every player to find out who they were (no shirts or numbers were given to the players), and they divided into 6 teams of 5 to play small sided 5v5.  For the second hour they split in half and scrimmaged 11v11.  As expected, there were some talented players and some that couldn't quite keep up.  Based on training jerseys worn, we are guessing at most there were 10 girls there from the Big-6 and the remainder were from small/mid sized clubs around the state.

At the end of the session, all the girls were told is we should receive an email from Georgia Soccer by the end of day Monday with potential next steps.  Depending on how many they want to keep from this group, IMO they will invite 12-18 to the Sunday session with the rest of the team on Sunday 11/1.

There were exactly 30 in the 07G field, my daughter was one of them.  

Speaking of wearing the non-club branded gear, my daughter was the only player in the 07G session I saw with a generic shirt on.  All the other girls wore some sort of club gear.

If I recall correctly, you are an AFU dad.  Were you the only AFU family there for the 06G session?  There weren't any there for the 07G session.  We were hoping to run into some families we knew from when we were there, but no such luck.

No ... didn't get the memo to not wear your club garm. When we received the invite email ... it didn't say to don't wear your club gear.

Anyway, anyone have the training schedule details for the '06 girls?

'07 Girl Dad here. We received an email this morning inviting us to a second training. All it said was that if we are receiving the email, we are invited back for a second and final evaluation for the pool. The session is this coming Sunday at the Inter Atlanta fields.

Well, that sucks.