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Originally Posted by thelittlesister
Team 316 seems to be having the opposite issue. We have 9 students and we've always had a small team, but next year half of our team will be graduating. We have been through many recruiting efforts with slim to no results. We're a county team so we've been to all the schools around, and through my CD research we've really tried to do most of the recruiting ideas. Any ideas? How do these other teams get so big?!
-Ally
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We had this problem back in Lunacy, graduating 3 of the 6-7 regular students. This year we've got over 30 on the roster. We're still just starting on the increasing size trend (well, we're certainly aiming for a trend), but a lot of them came from in-school/back-to-school night presentations.
Another huge thing--that took me a season of staring at MOE's cheering section to figure out--is the funneling from FLL and VEX. It takes some lead time, but our VEX league has over 100 kids in it now, and FLL is having to turn them away in droves. For some reason, it's seems easier to "catch them young". (But be careful, some of us'll never leave!)