Tryouts: Rosters Posted

[headsupsticksdown]

What's the buzz out there after the girls have completed tryouts? I know one team that's generating a lot of chatter is Eden Prairie. We all know Eden Prairie is in a downward spiral due to various reasons on both the girls and boys side but what has transpired this year is let's just say shocking. With a class of close to 10 seniors (after this group went to State as 15s) a large chunk of them got cut and instead Breakaway loaded up a bus full of 8th graders, dropped them off in front of the Community Center and all made the team. Close to 10 of them.

Not a single one of these 8th graders will play at Eden Prairie beyond this season and yet the coaching staff decided to cut girls who have been in the programs since Lean to Skate for a one year loan of clout chasing grifters. Some will argue "you have to win a spot" but this Eden Prairie team was going nowhere and you just gutted the team for maybe 1 more win on the books.

[InThePipes]

What's the buzz out there after the girls have completed tryouts? I know one team that's generating a lot of chatter is Eden Prairie. We all know Eden Prairie is in a downward spiral due to various reasons on both the girls and boys side but what has transpired this year is let's just say shocking. With a class of close to 10 seniors (after this group went to State as 15s) a large chunk of them got cut and instead Breakaway loaded up a bus full of 8th graders, dropped them off in front of the Community Center and all made the team. Close to 10 of them.

Not a single one of these 8th graders will play at Eden Prairie beyond this season and yet the coaching staff decided to cut girls who have been in the programs since Lean to Skate for a one year loan of clout chasing grifters. Some will argue "you have to win a spot" but this Eden Prairie team was going nowhere and you just gutted the team for maybe 1 more win on the books.

Welcome to the world in 2026, the goat rodeo era.

[Doc Holliday]

I had heard about this last week. Was curious to see who did not make it. I only knew of one girl for sure that got cut.

6 8th graders & 3 9th graders I'm seeing. The only 9th grader I know that has always been EP is Buchanan; there may be others but I wouldn't know who they are. I have no idea how many of them are new.

Honestly, I don't know how good any of the seniors were or are; just know that many of them have been playing all the way up.

Sad to see, but unfortunately seems to be the way it is now, and honestly, it goes both ways. Kids bail on their programs after their HS careers have started as well. If these 8th graders do in fact leave within a year or two, playing time opens up & another bus will be ready for the drop off.

I don't know the rules: If you're an 8th grader, are you allowed to open enroll without any eligibility issues considering you haven't started school at the HS? (Let's imagine that there actually was enforcement with this question).

[headsupsticksdown]

I had heard about this last week. Was curious to see who did not make it. I only knew of one girl for sure that got cut.

6 8th graders & 3 9th graders I'm seeing. The only 9th grader I know that has always been EP is Buchanan; there may be others but I wouldn't know who they are. I have no idea how many of them are new.

Honestly, I don't know how good any of the seniors were or are; just know that many of them have been playing all the way up.

Sad to see, but unfortunately seems to be the way it is now, and honestly, it goes both ways. Kids bail on their programs after their HS careers have started as well. If these 8th graders do in fact leave within a year or two, playing time opens up & another bus will be ready for the drop off.

I don't know the rules: If you're an 8th grader, are you allowed to open enroll without any eligibility issues considering you haven't started school at the HS? (Let's imagine that there actually was enforcement with this question).

Doc, not a single 8th grader lives or has ever played in Eden Prairie. Nor will any of them play in Eden Prairie beyond this year unless they feel they cannot make a spot elsewhere. In fact, it is already a pretty well known fact that several of these girls are already saying where they will be playing come 9th grade. Of the seniors that got cut all of them have played in Eden Prairie for 10+ years and have played for the head coach for all 3 years he's been around. From what I hear it was really handled horribly by the coach and staff but I will leave it at that. These girls played all through spring and summer without a peep or hint that they were in danger and if that's the way you want to run your program fine. But you are setting the wrong example by rolling out the red carpet for a group of kids and parents that could give two hoots about Eden Prairie or what happens in Eden Prairie beyond this season and everyone knows it.

Eden Prairie is in serious trouble talent and number wise. They can continue to field players, play down, put together an easier schedule or whatever. But a big problem with what happened this year is what then ends up trickling down to the 15 level. Girls get cut quit. Girls who don't make the team quit. A bus load full of 8th graders pull up and now the girls who just wanted to continue playing at 15s are either forced to play elsewhere or make the decision to again quit. You get the cycle I'm referring to but in the end it ends up gutting the entire youth program. All for girls who 99.999% likely won't be around next season. Did they get better by doing this? I'd bet anyone here on this board that their record does not improve on last years and that was arguably abysmal.