The nomination spreadsheet has been sent out to all Association Presidents and Hockey Directors.  If you have any questions, contact

Lori Billings
administrator@midamhockey.com

MidAm Tryout Selection Process at all Birth Years

Coaches:

Below is an outline of the tryout process for 2025. Please note that nominating a player does not mean that they will receive an invitation to the tryout. Invitations are based upon the ranking of the team the on which the player plays, higher ranked teams receive more allocations than lower ranked team - for this reason, your submittals must be ranked.

Spots are also determined by position as we need fewer defensemen than we do forwards as well as fewer goaltenders than defensemen. You will see that we are capping the number of teams being formed for respective age groups.

Beginning with the 2023 MidAm Select Camp Tryout season we began initiating changes for all birth years of boy’s tryout groups. These changes are being made to create a better tryout experience for players being selected to advance directly to the USA Hockey National Player Development Camps.

By January 15 Tier I, Tier II and HS coaches in the MidAm District will nominate players from their team to be considered for the MidAm Select Camp who they feel are National caliber players, thus your ranked lists by no later than December 30, 2024.

On or about January 31 a subcommittee of Tier I coaches, and MidAm District staff will conduct a conference call to review all players nominated and to finalize the invite list for the tryouts held on May 9 – 11, 2025 in Columbus, Ohio.

All birth years tryouts will be held the same weekend at Chiller North Arenas.

The subcommittee will make final nominations based on the following: information provided by their head coach or program director, regular season performance with their local team and performance in previous MidAm Select Camps. Invitations will be sent no later than February 15. Players who were selected to attend the previous year’s 15 & 16 National Player Development Camps will automatically be invited to participate at this year’s tryouts.

For 16 & 17 players, the tryout will consist of up to four teams participating in three rounds of games, along with a goaltender evaluation session (day and time to be determined).

For the 14 & 15 players, the tryout will consist of up to six teams participating in three rounds of games, along with a goaltender evaluation session (day and time to be determined).
Players will be ranked after each session and the results will be a part of the process of determining the (up to) 71 players to be invited to the 15 Tryout Camp to be held at Bowling Green State University June 7 – 11, 2025 and the 14 In-District camp held in Sylvania
June 15 – 19, 2025.

OVERVIEW

The purpose of the tryouts is for each USA Hockey District to identify and advance their players to a National Development Camp.  These are not tryouts for the National Team Development Program based in Plymouth, MI.

MidAm Tryouts are conducted each spring allowing players the opportunity to demonstrate their skills before evaluators from around the district and the country.  We are fortunate to have evaluators who volunteer their time to assess and compare skaters, and to advance the players they believe have the requisite skill set to be successful at the National Player Development  Camp for their respective age group.  Players are evaluated in both skills sessions and  games; and are scored each session independently by each evaluator. Those scores are tabulated to provide a ranking which is used to determine which candidates will advance to the all-star game, if applicable, or to the other various tryouts conducted by both USA Hockey and the MidAm District.

PLAYER ELIGIBILITY

Players must be citizens of the United States in order to participate.

There are no make up tryouts.  If a player cannot attend for all assigned sessions, he will be evaluated on his body of work for the sessions he was present.

Since USA Hockey requires each District to send only players who reside in a respective district, each district utilizes eligibility rules to determine who qualifies as a resident.

A player living with his parents or permanent legal guardian and whose address is within the MidAm District is an eligible player. 

A player who lives in the district with a billet family or is at a boarding school and whose parent has an address outside of the MidAm District IS NOT eligible to try out for the MidAm District.  For example, if a player is recruited from outside the district to play on a team inside the MidAm District, his tryout is to be directed back to the home district where his parents reside.

TRYOUT HARDSHIP

If a player from outside the MidAm District has a hardship which prohibits him/her from returning to their home district for tryouts, the process for trying out is as follows:

1. The player must contact the person in his/her home district to notify them that they cannot attend.

2. The player must be granted permission by his/her home district to have the tryout conducted outside of the district of residence and have the results communicated back to the home district.

3. The player is trying out for his/her home district and not for a spot allocated to the MidAm District.

If a player cannot attend the tryout, we will process a refund less $15.00 for the processing costs of the credit card transactions and software fees.