Ep 371 How Do You Run a Tryout That Actually Gets You the Right Team?

Coaching Youth Hoops (Youth Basketball Coach) · Sep 17, 2026 · 20m

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Tryout season is here, and Coach Collins frames the stakes right away: the two most important days for a high school coach are the day you pick your staff and the day you pick your team. At the youth level, the day you pick your team is just as big. Tryouts matter.

Youth basketball has several flavors and you do not always get to choose. Sometimes you are assigned players by area. Sometimes it is a snake draft. Sometimes it is a club tryout where you evaluate and then pick. And sometimes you are the one running the tryout, sometimes you are only evaluating, and…