Open Tryouts in Febuary

The Red Stars are having an open tryout next month on Febuary 12th. It's going to be at the Max McCook Athletic and Exposition indoor facility. Does anyone know anything about the size of it. I hope it's as big as something like Northwestern indoor football practise facility.

I would imagine that they will get a pretty good turn out for this tryout. I think they will get some players with some pretty good skill. But at this point I'm guessing the team will be looking for role players that can play a couple of positions. With an 18 player roster you need to have flexible players at the bottom.



http://www.womensprosoccer.com/newsitem_ektid7300.aspx?team=chicago

 

Thanks for the update. I wasn't aware of the facility. I would imagine that a place like that does pretty good business during the winter. In cities like Chicago, having a facility with a full size indoor pitch could be a good business venture.


Here's a link to their site.

http://www.max-mccook.com/index.htm

 

Back to the tryouts. Does anyone know players that will be attending. I know a couple NAIA players that will be there. I wonder if the team will mix in some players that are already invited to camp, so that they will have a standard to measure the other players to. I know some of the W-League teams do this when they have tryouts.

 

Here's a link to video of the tryouts from Peter Wilt's blog.

http://www.chicagoprowomenssoccer.blogspot.com/?team=chicago


Also here is some more info from his blog.


The pool of seventy players who participated the first day was narrowed to thirty for the second day. Six players were selected from the tryouts to join the Red Stars for the first official preseason training sessions starting March 1st. The chosen half dozen are Tina Estrada, Shannon Schneeman, Erin Walter, Molly Uyenishi, Bonnie Young and Michelle Wenino.

 

Here is another article about the tryous and players invited to camp.

http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3779772