Team Creation and Tryouts
Announcement of Dates
Dates must be announced in advance of tryouts (minimum two weeks) via the Weekly Word, morning an...
Team Levels
Varsity: A varsity team is a highly-competitive environment, where the best players will garne...
Tryout Criteria for Cut Sports
All skills to be evaluated must be clearly communicated to the students. The tryout period sho...
Excused from Tryouts
Players currently in season on another MPC team and/or players who are injured will be allowed to...
Cutting Procedures
“Cuts” are not an easy part of selecting teams, but they are a fact of life. Without competition,...
Publishing Rosters
Only the players making the team will be posted online. A “cut” list is not to be made public, an...
No-Cut Sports
Coaches in no-cut sports should substitute an evaluation period for the tryout period, and all of...
Establishing Expectations for Team Members
Coaches will arrange brief individual meetings with each student-athlete who makes the team to di...
Preseason Parents Meeting
Every team will conduct a preseason informational meeting for the families of their student-athle...
Multi-Team Players
Many of our players will be asked to play at multiple levels within the same sport (i.e. playing ...
Playing Up
Younger student-athletes “playing up” more than one level above their grade is not usually encour...