I have to admit, tryouts don’t happen here in Hawaii like they do on the mainland US at this time of year.  Most girls only have to tryout for school teams.  I’ve only had to tryout for a team twice in my entire lifetime.  Once for our intermediate school team and once for my varsity high school team.  That’s about it.  There aren’t a lot of travel/ASA teams that hold “tryouts.”  The tryouts we hold for school teams don’t seem to be as big a deal or as intimidating as travel ball tryouts happening around this time in the mainland US.  Plus for school ball we get to hang on to girls for over a month and see them play in a number of preseason game situations before we ever have to make a decision.  So players have much more opportunity to show what they’re made of and coaches have a lot more time to evaluate than in the typical “travel ball” situation.