Valor

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:it was emailed last week to current valor families but some bottom tier teams were still coachless. i guess those are hard to staff.

We are a current top team Valor family. No email. Saw it posted on IG and FB.

By email I think the pp meant the Valor Standard newsletter that was emailed last week. You can also see the coaching assignments on social media…instagram at least.

[Anonymous]

Does Valor send out their interest email to ALL rec families or just the families of kids that they are recruiting?

[Anonymous]

Everyone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone

My pet turtle got an email from Valor recruiting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does Valor send out their interest email to ALL rec families or just the families of kids that they are recruiting?

Are you talking about the invitation to the interest meeting? Yeah that went out to everyone whose kids are registered for rec, at least in the younger age groups. We have a U7 kid and got it. It's just a meeting where they go over the travel program and give people a chance to ask questions.

[Anonymous]

They send out emails to all older rec kids about tryouts and then later on, if they need warm bodies for their lower teams rosters, they invite rec kids to join those teams.

[Anonymous]

They didn't post on social media any of their 2nd team or lower coaches for U13 and up boys or girls. I guess they don't care or think anyone else care about those teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone

My pet turtle got an email from Valor recruiting.

LMAO

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son’s age group (top team) has added new players from outside and from the team below literally every year.

Interesting. Where did the open slots come
from in non-expansion years? Did they
move kids down?

We have seen similar in our DC’s age group. I only know what has happened with the top two teams. A couple of kids had been playing up an age group and went down the following year to play with their own age. A couple other kids left to focus on other sports. One went to another club. And yes kids have been moved down and others moved up. I think Valor could do a better job evaluating players at tryouts. It took a while for the team placements to be fully settled and mostly correct. But if you’re lucky, the coaches in your DC’s age group stay in frequent communication and make adjustments as needed. I imagine some of the problems are happening in age groups where the coaches of the different teams don’t talk to each other much.

Agree, the club needs major restructuring in this area for assessing players. There's no incentive to stay when you can essentially tin cup somewhere else for better opportunities in equal competitiveness. Not much future value in players that continue to rapidly develop. If you don't set standards today, then you create an institution where the atmosphere remains stagnant. How are you maintaining the best?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I dont know a thing abiut rec all stars because our kids did academy then club but who would be left to play in rec if they are staffing five Valor teams per age group out of their rec programs? Of course their teams are bad.

There will always be rec players available to fill the rec program. Rec soccer and basketball are the 2 most profitable rec programs in the area (followed closely by lacrosse). And Valor will take anyone.

I only agree with 110% of what you said. =)

[Anonymous]

Here's the coaching list.
https://www.virginiavalorfc.org/2024-2025coaching-staff

Are they going to hire the missing coaches by tryouts? Even third-fourth-fifth team players deserve to know who they are getting as a coach before joining the team (and don't the coaches have to be at tryouts to pick their team?)

[Anonymous]

No coach for the second 2014 girls team but they have coaches for the lower teams? That's weird. Did someone drop out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No coach for the second 2014 girls team but they have coaches for the lower teams? That's weird. Did someone drop out?

Originally they had SA for both pre ECNL and gold 2014 girls, which I thought was strange. Makes more sense that it’s a spot they are trying to fill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's the coaching list.
https://www.virginiavalorfc.org/2024-2025coaching-staff

Are they going to hire the missing coaches by tryouts? Even third-fourth-fifth team players deserve to know who they are getting as a coach before joining the team (and don't the coaches have to be at tryouts to pick their team?)

Answer: NO, they will not. They want to understand the demand signal first...overhead cost. They need players (taken from anywhere) to build out the team before funding the coach.

[Anonymous]

But some of the teams missing coaches are existing teams, like the third 2009 boys team.