Open Y35 Ilvermorny Quidditch Try-Outs!

[Isaak Baros]

Isaak Baros smiled to himself, as he approached the Quidditch field. He sent out flyers all over Ilvermorny to let them know that Quidditch was starting, and perhaps the chance to go international, school on school. He was Pukwedgie himself, and his favorite, and best, position, was chaser. He held his broom in hand, and waited for everyone. Once they arrived, he smiled, “Hey guys! In case you don’t know, I am Isaak Baros! I am your new captain for this team, and I cannot wait to get to know you all! Come to me, state your name and what position you are trying out for!” After that was done, he said, “Okay, so potential chasers will try to score, and practice passing and stealing. Teamwork! Beaters, protect the players. Keepers, guard against the chasers, and seekers, there are several snitches in the air to practice with. And have fun!”

Seeker	Available
Chaser	Isaak Baros (Captain)
Chaser	Available
Chaser	Available
Beater	Available
Beater	Available
Keeper	Available
Alternates	Available

 

[Eli Carter]

Eli had always liked to watch Quidditch games whenever he could, and the opportunity to play on a team was too good to pass up, even if he wasn't too keen on the teamwork aspect of it. He had played only with his brothers over the holidays, and now the idea of playing with strangers was a little off-putting. But Eli definitely wanted to try to be on the team, he couldn't ignore this chance. So he showed up at the tryouts, listening quietly as the captain introduced himself and told them what to do. When it was his turn, Eli stepped forward. "Eli Carter, trying out for beater." He said, holding up his bat briefly. Then he got on his broom and flew into the air. He flew past a few other students flying around, keeping an eye out for bludgers. He spotted one near a chaser and flew over to it, raising his bat and hitting it hard. A slight smile appeared on his face when he managed to hit it far away from the other player, keeping them from being harmed. The captain had said to protect, so that was what Eli would do. He flew off after the other bludger, which was getting somewhat close to the north goal hoops. Eli hit it far away before it could bother either the keeper or chasers flying around, though he did startle another player when it fly right over their head. He winced, he had to be more careful about where to hit the bludgers. He flew around for a while, hitting them away from people whenever he could. He missed a few hits too, but for the most part figured he had done a good job. When he was done, he flew back down to the ground and dismounted his broom.

 

[Adam Everett]

Adam had never been the most interested in playing Quidditch, though getting on the team seemed like an easy way to boost his popularity. He'd passed his flying lesson with flying colours, so he figured that actually playing the game wasn't going to be too much of a challenge. The boy made his way to the school pitch, noting the crowd already beginning to gather, and strode up to the team captain. "Adam Everett. I'll take Keeper." He told him. He wasn't here to "try out". He completely expected the position, and had strategically chosen the one with the least amount of effort he'd have to put into the gameplay. How hard would it be to block some hoops?

Floating towards the rings, Adam lazily watched the other players pass their quaffles and beat their bludgers. He'd finally found a comfortable position to sprawl out on his broom by the time the first few players approached his hoops to score. This was just typical. Straightening up, the boy decided to put in some effort and avoid looking a fool in front of everyone spectating. He had a reputation to keep, and failing at such an easy job wasn't going to be an embarrassment he'd let himself live down. He kept his eyes on the chaser with the quaffle, and flew toward the hoop they'd been quite obviously eyeing up to intercept, "Nope." He muttered, batting the ball away with the tail of his broomstick. There. That had been simple, and totally had nothing to do with some of the inexperience of the other players trying out for their first time.

With a few more blocks, and a couple of sinks that the boy made out to be intentional allowances to "give the chasers a chance" rather than his own wrong-doing, Adam came to a rest on the pitch and dropped his broom on the grass for someone else to attend to.

 

[Noah Thomas]

Noah liked Quidditch. No, that would be an understatement. Noah loved Quidditch, and kind of had to with the way he was raised. And he thought that he was pretty good at it too. Both his mother and father used to play Quidditch professionally so one could say that it was in his blood to be good at it. Because he was sure that his father would kill him if he did not at least try to make the team, Noah made his way over the to Quidditch pitch, almost skipping out of excitement. He smiled at the others as he joined them on the field, seeing at least two familiar faces. He listened carefully to what Isaak was saying, not wanting to miss anything in case there'd be any rules they had to keep in mind whilst in the air. Nothing to worry about, thankfully. ''Hello there! I'm Noah Thomas and I'm trying out for Seeker,'' Noah told the captain when it was his turn to step forward. The teen mounted his broomstick and kicked himself off the ground, ready to catch some snitches. He scanned the skies for those pesky golden balls once he steadied himself in the air. He didn't know how many he was supposed to catch, or which one for that matter, so Noah set out to catch the first one he set his eyes upon. It was difficult to concentrate on just the one snitch what with several of them flying around the pitch so had to focus hard on just the one.

He zigzagged, twirled, dived and corkscrewed his way towards the snitch once he spotted it again, avoiding the other students in the air as well as the bludgers. He was definitely showing off a bit, but who wouldn't during these try-outs? It took him several minutes to catch the snitch he'd been following ever since he mounted his broomstick, he would've done so faster if he hadn't been distracted by something else, and let go of the tiny golden ball once he was sure that the captain had seen it in clutched in his hand. When he was done he flew back to the ground again. He thought he did well at the end of the day, though figured that there was definitely some room for improvement.

 

[AJ Ari]

AJ wasn't sure what he was doing here. He wasn't really sure he knew how to play Quidditch, but school was boring, he missed home, and he had next to no friends, so really what did he have to loose. At least things didn't explode as much as they did in Quadpot and Quidditch was at least more popular back in Canada than it was in the States. A part of AJ somehow blindly hoped that would give him a leg up. "AJ Ari, trying out for beater?" He said, clearing his throat when it came out more as a question. "Yep, right. Beater." He amended, gripping the bat and swinging onto his broom. He'd picked beater purely because he much preferred the idea of being able to defend himself if there were rogue balls about trying to do you in.

It was hard to get used to the added weight of the bat, AJ didn't consider himself a bad flyer, but he hadn't had much practice being one-handed all the time and took several test swings as he did a few warm-up laps around the pitch. Feeling better, AJ steeled himself, zeroing in on a bludger and zipping after it. They were hard to catch and even harder to aim, but AJ was able to strike the thing, happy with the contact until he watched it sail into another player nearby "Shhhi- Sorry!" He called out, nearly wobbling off his broom as he winced and swayed at the impact. He'd have to get used to that though, since that was kind of the point of the game. Getting into the literal swing of things, AJ spent the rest of the try-outs chasing after the accursed things, having to dodge them more than once when they seemed to decide to change course and chase him for awhile. He didn't manage to hit any other players again, intentionally or not, but AJ didn't feel half bad about several hits once everything was said and done, sending a few bludgers flying across the pitch. Touching down, AJ shook his sweaty hair out of his face, rolling his shoulder and cursing the stiffness there. That was going to hurt like crazy tomorrow.

 

[Cayleigh Baros]

Cayleigh Baros could hardly believe her cousin was the Qudditch captain now. Isaak was older than her, so it was not bad. But his dad was a dancer! Her father was a Quidditch legend back in his youth. Cayleigh walked to the pitch to go try out herself. She wanted to be a beater, and though she might have better skills as a keeper, she wanted to do something different. Much different from her father. She approached the field, and smiled toward her cousin. "Cayleigh Baros, trying out for beater." She got on her broom and took off around the field for a few laps to get warmed up. Cayleigh took her bat and soared around the pitch, looking for bludgers to hit away from others. She smiled as she found a couple soaring around. She found one that was about to go for the seeker trying out. She smacked it away, and quickly found that it was much harder than she thought. Cayleigh continued this for a while and try outs ended. She could not wait to see who made the team!

 

[Dominic Torres]

Dominic could not believe his luck! They were starting a quidditch team here, at his school finally! His cousins had taught him the basics over the summer, which they had learned from friends who went to different schools. He had remembered most of the rules and how the game worked but he was sure he forgot something and grew a little nervous when it was his turn to try out. "Dominic Torres here! Trying out for chaser!" he said proudly when it was his turn. He kicked off with his broom and grabbed a quaffle before heading straight toward the goals. He made a few good dodges and threw the ball when he was finally close enough. But he slightly misjudged how hard to throw it and it was easily blocked by the keeper. Dominic took a deep breath and got a hold of a quaffle again and this time had a better idea of what he was doing. He faked to the right before throwing the ball to the left. It was close but it made it through the goal. He let out a cheer before practicing with the others for the rest of try outs.

 

[Einar Haines]

Einar hadn't wanted to play quidditch when he'd first joined the school, but when he'd noticed the poster for try-outs, the horned serpent hadn't thought it would actually be too bad an idea. He'd been active in grade school. He'd played sports, he could do that here too. The boy arrived at the pitch, and noted all of the students who seemed older than him trying out. He'd never get on to the team with all of these other people around. He could hear his mother's voice telling him to give a try anyway. So, rather than leave he stuck around. Einar looked to the much older captain who began the try-outs, speaking so loudly and so boldly Einar couldn't help but think that his presence must get frustrating. The boy watched as others went ahead of him, unable to stop himself from comparing himself to them. Eventually it seemed to be his turn. he stepped forward and cleared his throat, "Einar Haines, Chaser," the boy said, waiting in the silence for a moment before grabbing the school issue broom and heading up into the air. ​

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Einar was sure of himself on the broom, even if he hadn't wanted to play, the feeling of flying had been too good to pass up, so even after the flying lessons had stop in the year prior, Einar had continued to fly. He was a young talent on a broom, room for improvement but clearly someone who had worked to fly easily. He rushed in to grab the quaffle, a sense of him seeming to not care or pay attention to the danger it put him in to just rush in as he did. Einar grabbed the quaffle as it came to him, and he seemed to barely glance at any of the other chasers before he raced to the hoops, perhaps in all of his work towards flying alone, he hadn't really learned what a team was. He threw the ball hard, and while it seemed to go in the right direction, it lacked the force needed to really sink it. Einar continued, he took a few opportunities from others, stealing the ball quickly from them, flying head first towards others to be able to take the ball, a bludger narrowly missing him. But by the end he'd managed to score a few times and he certainly felt fearless. Einar flew back to the ground and hoped he might've got this. ​

 

[Hope Thompson]

Hope had been thinking of playing Quidditch for a long time. And now her school decided to start one she could just not let this chance go away. The girl had been having a great time and she liked her life. Hope was one of the few people in her family with magical abilities and she had learned of this quidditch sport. And since she found out and saw her first game she was sold. All morning she was smiling and couldn't stop now there were try outs. So she made her way to the place that was written on the poster she saw. And when she arrived she noticed more students, ofcourse she wasn't the only one. And it was a team sport. Hope really liked meeting others so she smiled happily when wshe noticed the others. And listened when the captain of the team spoke. When it was her turn to speak she smiled bright. '' Hey I'm Hope Thompson. And I am trying out for Seeker.'' The girl spoke and climbed on her broom. Before she came to this school and found out she was magical she had never been sitting on a broom. And here she was.

Hope believed she could do it. And her parents didn't gave her the name hope for nothing. The girl had hope always and was positive. She mounted her broom and flew into the air on the search for the golden snitch. Hope figured it would not be easy to catch the fast golden thingy. Another boy seemed to be searching it as well so Hope quickly flew after the golden snitch when she spotted it. She didn't knew if catching it once was enough? Hope almost flew to someone else trying to score with the quaffle because she was so focused on the golden snitch. She apologized for a moment and raced on. A few times she had to dive and when she came close she grabbed with her hand, but she could not reach it yet. But the next attempt was good. She hold the golden snitch inside of her hand and smiled. She flew back to the ground and gave it to the captain to show it and smiled. She had managed it, and it was much faster than she had thought at first she would.

 

[Isaak Baros]

OOC: Last call for players! Try outs close in two days!

 

[Isaak Baros]

Thanks for trying out! Be on the lookout for Quidditch practices, in your PM box! If you have any questions, don't be a stranger to shoot them to me!

Position	Player
Chaser	Isaak Baros (Captain)
Chaser	Dominic Torres
Chaser	Einar Haines
Beater	AJ Ari
Beater	Cayleigh Baros
Keeper	Adam Everett
Seeker	Hope Thompson
Alternate Beater	Eli Carter
Alternate Seeker	Noah Thompson