Originally Posted by Anonymous
It is your girls you have coached for many years and asked to run through walls for you. Of course there is bias. How do you do the tryout so it is fair? I say skill drills and sprint speed gets you on the team and then scrimmaging only gets you off the team, would be best in these tryouts. Some score for drills and "athletic" ability like shuttle drill and or 40 yard sprint. Rank all field players by those 2 metrics. Scrimmage and look for girls who wind up by dropping passes or bad shot selection or ball hogging to deduct from the rankings. That is how I would do it. Maybe I have each coach put in a players name away from the rankings and if she is within 5 from the 22nd ranked girl she bumps the last girl. Coach privilege.

Good assessment. I like that model.