Road Team Tryouts
Road Team tryouts will be held in May and June at the Plymouth St facility.
Note: The fields are closed to practice during these nights.
Tryout Schedule
These are Bays age
requirements and will be strictly enforced.
Registration begins at 4:45 pm for each night of
tryouts.
| Age Group | Players Born Between | Gender | Tryout Date and Time |
| U9 and U10 | 8/1/98 - 7/31/00 | Boys and Girls | Tuesday, May 27th 5:30-8:00 pm |
| U11 and U12 | 8/1/96 - 7/31/98 | Boys | Monday, June 2, 5:30-8:00 pm |
| U11 and U12 | 8/1/96 - 7/31/98 | Girls | Tuesday, June 17 5:30-8:00 pm (rescheduled) |
| U13 and U14 | 8/1/94 - 7/31/96 | Boys | Thursday, May 29th, 5:30 -8:00 pm |
| U14 | 8/1/94- 7/31/95 | Girls | Thursday, May 29th, 5:30-8:00 pm |
| U13 | 8/1/95 - 7/31/96 | Girls | Monday, June 2nd , 5:30-8:00 pm |
IMPORTANT: All players must be registered for Road Team by May 20 in order to participate in try outs. Absolutely no registrations will be accepted on the day of tryouts.
All players in ages U12 - U14 must bring a passport size picture to tryouts. PLEASE put your child's name and date of birth on the back. Players will not be allowed to tryout without the photo.
No makeup tryouts are scheduled this year. If a player cannot make their scheduled tryout, please contact Mike Smith.
Uniforms sizes may be confirmed at the tryouts. These sizes were entered at the time of registration.
Placement on the travel teams is primarily based on the tryouts. Therefore it is important for your child attend. In addition to the tryout, if your child is on a road team in the U10 through U13 age group, they will be evaluated playing with their current team this spring on one of the last two weeks of the season. We also look at their current coach’s evaluation of a player when compiling the teams for next year.
Players are placed on teams and then a coach is chosen based on the players on that team. If anyone is interested in coaching a travel team, please fill out the coaching application available on our website.
For the U9 age groups, there will only be two boys teams and two girls teams. If a child tries out for this age group and does not make one of the two teams, they will be placed on an in town team. One key reason for this change is to maintain a more competitive in town program for third graders which in the long run will allow players to develop their skills and technique.
For all other age groups, we will try to place every child on a travel team.
The U9 teams will be balanced, meaning that two teams will be put together so they are equal. There will be no “A” team. At this age group, skills are still being developed and placing players on an “A” team could be a false assessment of a player’s ability. The important thing at this age group is that the kids are playing soccer and having fun. The U10 teams may also be balanced based on the results of the tryouts. At U11 there will be an “A” team; the remaining teams may be balanced based on the results of the tryouts.
With all travel teams, Mansfield Youth Soccer’s policy is that all players must play at least 50 % of every game.
Any questions or comments, please feel free to email Mike Smith.