Get a court-by-court plan for your next tryout

Tell us how many players, age groups, courts and coaches you have and how long each session runs. We'll email you a PDF with a minute-by-minute schedule, court layouts, drill rotations and a printable page for each drill. It's free and takes about three minutes.

●  It's free and doesn't need a card or a trial. We email you the PDF.

26drills with diagrams
1 cardfor each drill

What's in the plan

The generator works from what you tell it: your courts, your staff, your session lengths and your age groups.

Session schedule

Shows which groups play when. Big age groups get split into sessions, and small ones can share the gym while each court keeps one net height.

Court map and equipment

Your gym with numbered courts, net heights and ball type for each court, plus notes on when to change the nets between sessions.

Rotations and games

Every court in an age group runs the same drill for 15 to 20 minutes. Wristband groups stay on their court while evaluators rotate on a timer. Sessions end with 6v6 games, and water breaks are built in.

Drill cards

One printable card per drill. Each card has a court diagram, how to run the drill and what to rate. A coach who has never run the drill can start it from the card.

How it works

The planner splits big age groups into sessions. It keeps 12U on the lower net with the lighter ball while 14U plays regulation on the next court. It only adds 6v6 ranked play when the session is long enough, and if your staff knows the players, it seeds wristband groups by skill level.

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Tell us about your tryout

We only need your club, the months you hold tryouts and how many players to expect. Courts, coaches, age-group counts and format preferences make the plan better.

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Review it and swap drills

You'll see the whole outline in your browser first. Each drill slot lists other drills that fit that age group and court.

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Get the PDF by email

You'll get a print-ready plan, with schedule pages for the office wall and drill pages for the coaches' clipboards.

Questions clubs ask.

What's in the plan, how the planner adapts and what happens after the PDF. If your question isn't here, get in touch.

What's in the tryout plan?

A minute-by-minute schedule for every session, a numbered court map for your facility, which age groups play when, drill assignments per court with rotation timing, staffing per court, and a printable drill card for each drill (with a diagram, how to run it and what to rate) that you hand to the coach running that court.

Is it really free?

Yes. Tell us about your tryout and we'll email you the PDF. The download link is yours to keep and share with your staff. You don't need a card or a trial. We make Callback, a tryout scoring app, and we figured a useful free plan was a better introduction than a sales pitch.

How does the plan handle different club sizes?

The planner adapts to what you enter: a 60-player club on one court gets a different structure than 800 players across eight. It splits big age groups into sessions, merges small ones onto dedicated courts, sizes station rotations to your session length, and flags anything thin, like fewer evaluators than courts, with a workaround.

Does it account for 12U net heights and lighter balls?

Yes. 12U-and-under plays on a 7'0" net with a lite ball; 13U-and-over is regulation. The plan never mixes the two on one court, marks net height and ball per court, and says when to re-rig nets between sessions.

Can I choose the drills?

The planner picks drills to cover the skills you want evaluated, and you can swap any of them before the PDF is generated. Each slot shows ranked alternatives that fit the age group, court space, and time.

How should we group players at check-in?

If your staff knows most of the athletes (returning players, camp regulars), the plan seeds wristband groups by skill level, because an A-level player drilling with a D-level player frustrates both. Newcomers get their own group and re-seed after the first rotation. If most faces are new, it falls back to alphabetical groups.

What if our numbers change before tryout day?

Come back and make a new one. It takes about a minute, and the new PDF arrives the same way. The plan also lists every assumption it made, so you can see what to fix.

Run the day itself on Callback

The last pages of your PDF show how Callback would run this tryout: registration, check-in with wristband groups, court-side ratings on iPhone or iPad that work offline, live rankings and offers, all set up to match your plan. The free 30-day trial covers up to 40 players and doesn't need a card.