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Early Spring Prep Sports Sign-up

Posted January 21, 2025

Good afternoon McAuliffe Families,

Sign-ups for our winter prep league sports season is now open. Below, you will find the information you need to sign-up. This season, we will be offering boys and girls basketball. There will be one team for girls 6-8, and one team for boys 6-8. Basketball tryouts will be released once the district lets us know when we are allowed to begin tryouts. 

To tryout, parents/guardians will need to:

  1. Complete the registration in Arbiter – this is new, and all families MUST register here 

                                                        McAuliffe Winter Prep Sports Registration

  1. You will complete everything within Arbiter – upload your athletes physical, and complete payment. 
    • If your child doesn’t make a team, you will receive a refund.
  2. You must submit your completed registration with your student’s valid physical and payment for your student to be on the tryout list, they can’t participate until these have been uploaded and registration has been completed. You will receive a confirmation email from Arbiter once you submit the registration. 
  3. New to Arbiter? See this Arbiter step by step guide for parents.

The deadline to register for Early Spring Prep Sports is Friday, February 7th at 6:00pm. There are no exceptions to the deadline as registration will close in Arbiter. I will be sending emails on Saturday, February 8th regarding tryouts and information to everyone who has completed registration by 6:00pm on Friday, February 7th. Emails will go to the parent/guardian emails you submit within Arbiter. 

Tryout dates: 

  • Girls Basketball – TBD
  • Boys Basketball – TBD

Due to the mass influx of emails, I don’t send confirmation emails on physicals or the sign-up forms. I apologize for the inconvenience, I just don’t have the time. 

Tryouts for early spring sports are competitive. Coaches will be selecting players based on their skill level. Cuts will be made at the discretion of the coaching staff. I will also be reviewing all students academic standings prior to tryouts. If your student has seven or more missing assignments, they are ineligible to play. We will let them try out, but that information will be provided to the coaches, and will be an automatic cut. Your player must attend each day of their scheduled day of tryouts to be considered for the team. The exception to this is if your player got approval from the coach in advance of the tryouts. A no show on the scheduled tryout day is an automatic cut. 

If you have any questions, please contact Natalie Barrios at n_barrios-marquez@dpsk12.net. 

Thank you,

Natalie Barrios Marquez

Assessment Coordinator/Athletic Director

McAuliffe International School