TCYSA is prohibited from scheduling tryouts until after NCYSA finishes its state cup tournaments, which is usually the weekend before Memorial Day weekend each May. TCYSA also faces the prospect of summer vacations starting in mid June. This leaves a very small window to hold tryouts for all three divisions that are convenient for the most number of people.

Academy, Challenge and Classic conduct tryouts for the U9, U10 and U11 players the first week of tryouts.

For all other teams, TCYSA generally attempts to run tryouts in descending order of age beginning with the U18 age groups. Doing this provides our high-school players a window between the end of high-school state championship playoffs in mid-May and final examinations in early June.

We understand that the end of the year is busy with many school-related tests and activities for all of our players. As parents, we, too, understand what it is like to be pulled by multiple demands on each of our children. For this reason, we post our tryout schedule by Feb. 1 to allow each family as much time as possible to arrange their plans.