Try Out Information

South Shore SeaHawks
Tryout Strategy

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The objective of the South Shore SeaHawks program is to provide tryouts that are fair and balanced to everyone involved. The purpose of this document is to explain how the tryouts will be run and how players will be placed on teams. While there is no exact science on rating and placing players, we feel that the following description will help all the Seahawks' members understand how it's done. By running the tryouts in this manner, the majority of players will be placed on the proper teams. We understand that some players tryout well and others don't, while some players that don't tryout well, may have intangible attributes that make them good hockey players. We also understand that at the higher levels, players may be trying out for positions, i.e. forward or defense.

The first session of tryouts will be the A team tryouts. We ask that unless you sincerely feel your son or daughter belongs on an A team, not to tryout for the A team. Their chances of making a B team are not increased by trying out for the A's. After the first skills session there will be an effort to choose up to 8 obvious A's and eliminate the obvious non-A's. This session may or may not accomplish this. The next A session will be an invitation only scrimmage to identify the remaining players to fill the team to 13 players. When the head coach is selected, the coach will have the option of selecting the remaining three spots from the next ten rated players*. If he elects not to do so, the next three rated players will be selected for the A team. The remaining seven players from those ten will be invited to the B tryout.

The next tryout skills session(s) will be for the B and C players. These sessions will determine how many players will be invited to the B tryouts. They will also determine the rankings for the C drafts.

The final session of tryouts will be the B scrimmages, which are by invitation only. Players will be evaluated the same as the A tryouts and placed on the B team(s) in the same manner.

Coaches will be chosen after players are placed at the A, B and C levels.

A checking clinic will be scheduled for all first year Peewees and first year Seahawks that are Bantams or Peewees which is mandatory for attending tryouts for those players.

Each tryout session will be run by the Level Directors, who will choose at least five judges. The judges must be past or present Seahawks coaches or hockey qualified Seahawks members. If there is a child of a judge on the ice, he will not be permitted to judge him or her.

After tryout sessions, the Seahawks Level Directors will be utilizing the website http://www.southshoreseahawks.org, to notify players of their next sessions. Each Level Director will issue instructions to look for the players names which will indicate which tryout session to attend next as well as possible instructions as in, "If you don't see your name, you've made (a certain) team."

* A player who is in the Coach's pick pool and is not a returning Seahawk cannot be picked over a higher-ranked current Seahawk player who is also in the pool. For example, Player A (a returning Seahawk) is ranked 2nd in the Coach's pick pool. Player B (who did not play with the Seahawks last year) is ranked 3rd in the pool. The coach may not select Player B over Player A. The intention of this rule is to prohibit coaches from recruiting outside the Seahawks organization and selecting players over returning Seahawks players.