How to run tryouts
2 months Before
- Send out invites
- Post flyers at facilities
- Post on social media
Week before tryouts
- Begin to prepare jerseys
- Finalize staffing needs
- Admin, Player, and Goalie staff
Day before tryouts
- Get jerseys laid out and ready
- Make a practice plan for the ice
- Keep the practice plan basic
- Have forward, backward, transition skating drills
- Have skill drills where they handle the puck and shoot
- Keep the pace as high as possible
Day of tryouts
- Make sure check-in is set up
- Have pucks and jerseys ready to go
- Go over practice plan with on-ice instructors
- Make any changes needed
- Evaluate
- Answer any questions from parents
- Talk to players at the end
- Thank everyone for coming
After tryouts
- Send an email
- Thanking them for coming
- Letting them know whether they made it or didn’t make it