Girls ECNL....1st month

[Anonymous]

There have only been a handful of games, but you currently have U13 Loudoun, U15 VA Union and U16 VDA sitting in first place of their age groups. But outside of a single team within each age group, DMV area clubs seem to be struggling on a whole. When averaging the sum of points for each club (U13 thru U18/19), Charlotte SA, NC Courage, and Richmond are clearly the top 3 clubs overall. NC Courage swept BRYC and Arlington this past weekend. We know BRYC is struggling, but wasn't Arlington considered a "strong" club in Girls Academy last year??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There have only been a handful of games, but you currently have U13 Loudoun, U15 VA Union and U16 VDA sitting in first place of their age groups. But outside of a single team within each age group, DMV area clubs seem to be struggling on a whole. When averaging the sum of points for each club (U13 thru U18/19), Charlotte SA, NC Courage, and Richmond are clearly the top 3 clubs overall. NC Courage swept BRYC and Arlington this past weekend. We know BRYC is struggling, but wasn't Arlington considered a "strong" club in Girls Academy last year??

Yes Arlington is doing about the same as they did in GA. Over Ga and ECNL are the same. No difference. Sorry ECNL parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There have only been a handful of games, but you currently have U13 Loudoun, U15 VA Union and U16 VDA sitting in first place of their age groups. But outside of a single team within each age group, DMV area clubs seem to be struggling on a whole. When averaging the sum of points for each club (U13 thru U18/19), Charlotte SA, NC Courage, and Richmond are clearly the top 3 clubs overall. NC Courage swept BRYC and Arlington this past weekend. We know BRYC is struggling, but wasn't Arlington considered a "strong" club in Girls Academy last year??

What are you talking about? Out of 36 possible spots in the top 6 over 6 age groups NOVA clubs, excluding Richmond, have 11 teams represented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There have only been a handful of games, but you currently have U13 Loudoun, U15 VA Union and U16 VDA sitting in first place of their age groups. But outside of a single team within each age group, DMV area clubs seem to be struggling on a whole. When averaging the sum of points for each club (U13 thru U18/19), Charlotte SA, NC Courage, and Richmond are clearly the top 3 clubs overall. NC Courage swept BRYC and Arlington this past weekend. We know BRYC is struggling, but wasn't Arlington considered a "strong" club in Girls Academy last year??

So half the age groups are led by NOVA clubs? That’s a bad thing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There have only been a handful of games, but you currently have U13 Loudoun, U15 VA Union and U16 VDA sitting in first place of their age groups. But outside of a single team within each age group, DMV area clubs seem to be struggling on a whole. When averaging the sum of points for each club (U13 thru U18/19), Charlotte SA, NC Courage, and Richmond are clearly the top 3 clubs overall. NC Courage swept BRYC and Arlington this past weekend. We know BRYC is struggling, but wasn't Arlington considered a "strong" club in Girls Academy last year??

Yes Arlington is doing about the same as they did in GA. Over Ga and ECNL are the same. No difference. Sorry ECNL parents.

I agree. Arlington did fine in GA and they’ll do fine in ECNL. The older age groups are struggling because the schedule is brutal and there are so many injuries. I guess that is where having a large roster is an advantage. Arlington is known for there smaller rosters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There have only been a handful of games, but you currently have U13 Loudoun, U15 VA Union and U16 VDA sitting in first place of their age groups. But outside of a single team within each age group, DMV area clubs seem to be struggling on a whole. When averaging the sum of points for each club (U13 thru U18/19), Charlotte SA, NC Courage, and Richmond are clearly the top 3 clubs overall. NC Courage swept BRYC and Arlington this past weekend. We know BRYC is struggling, but wasn't Arlington considered a "strong" club in Girls Academy last year??

No surprise: Richmond has access to all the talent in that metro area plus points east, south and west. There are roughly the same number of clubs serving the entire state of NC as there are serving Northern Virginia but NC has 5x the population as norther Virginia.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There have only been a handful of games, but you currently have U13 Loudoun, U15 VA Union and U16 VDA sitting in first place of their age groups. But outside of a single team within each age group, DMV area clubs seem to be struggling on a whole. When averaging the sum of points for each club (U13 thru U18/19), Charlotte SA, NC Courage, and Richmond are clearly the top 3 clubs overall. NC Courage swept BRYC and Arlington this past weekend. We know BRYC is struggling, but wasn't Arlington considered a "strong" club in Girls Academy last year??

Yes Arlington is doing about the same as they did in GA. Over Ga and ECNL are the same. No difference. Sorry ECNL parents.

Actually that isn't true. Arlington is doing slightly worse or much worse in ECNL than GA last year. Sorry GA Dad.

The following is Arlington GA place by age last year and current standings this year in ECNL

Age GA ECNL
08 3rd 5th
07 7th 8th
06 2nd 5th
05 5th 11th
04 3rd
03 6th Composite 13th

You can look for yourself
https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/1805/schedules?group=7254

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There have only been a handful of games, but you currently have U13 Loudoun, U15 VA Union and U16 VDA sitting in first place of their age groups. But outside of a single team within each age group, DMV area clubs seem to be struggling on a whole. When averaging the sum of points for each club (U13 thru U18/19), Charlotte SA, NC Courage, and Richmond are clearly the top 3 clubs overall. NC Courage swept BRYC and Arlington this past weekend. We know BRYC is struggling, but wasn't Arlington considered a "strong" club in Girls Academy last year??

So half the age groups are led by NOVA clubs? That’s a bad thing?

I was going to say this. 50% led by NOVA clubs and out of 14 total teams, 5 are in NOVA. Interesting math here and I'd say NOVA clubs doing just fine.

[Anonymous]

Think how well they’d be doing if 5 clubs (plus FCV GA for a sixth) were 2 or 3 clubs instead. But, in the larger scheme of things none of this matters. Just happy to live in a country and metro area that affords this much athletic competition for youth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Think how well they’d be doing if 5 clubs (plus FCV GA for a sixth) were 2 or 3 clubs instead. But, in the larger scheme of things none of this matters. Just happy to live in a country and metro area that affords this much athletic competition for youth.

ECNL has doubled in size over the past 5 years. Every region has seen some level of dilution, hell, PDA has two teams per age group, 3 if you count PDA South.

When there were only 2 NOVA ECNL clubs we weren't any more dominant because every region had tremendous concentration of talent as well.

In the current landscape if we dropped to two clubs while ECNL remains at its current number of clubs, yes we would kill it but in a relative sense, no, not so much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There have only been a handful of games, but you currently have U13 Loudoun, U15 VA Union and U16 VDA sitting in first place of their age groups. But outside of a single team within each age group, DMV area clubs seem to be struggling on a whole. When averaging the sum of points for each club (U13 thru U18/19), Charlotte SA, NC Courage, and Richmond are clearly the top 3 clubs overall. NC Courage swept BRYC and Arlington this past weekend. We know BRYC is struggling, but wasn't Arlington considered a "strong" club in Girls Academy last year??

So half the age groups are led by NOVA clubs? That’s a bad thing?

I was going to say this. 50% led by NOVA clubs and out of 14 total teams, 5 are in NOVA. Interesting math here and I'd say NOVA clubs doing just fine.

Yes, NOVA has a good team within each age group, but he OP was referring to NOVA as a whole. Current sum of 'points' for each club is as follows. None of the top clubs have played each other yet other than Courage and VDA. Keep in mind that Courage/NCFC is the only club that has both 1st and 2nd teams in this league.

CSA 14.00
Richmond 13.75
NC Courage 13.65
VDA 10.35
Loudoun 10.01
CESA 9.58
VA Union 9.07
Charlotte Independence 8.80
Arlington 8.64
NC Fusion 7.71
Wilmington 6.50
SCUFC 5.83
NCFC 4.59
BRYC 2.87

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There have only been a handful of games, but you currently have U13 Loudoun, U15 VA Union and U16 VDA sitting in first place of their age groups. But outside of a single team within each age group, DMV area clubs seem to be struggling on a whole. When averaging the sum of points for each club (U13 thru U18/19), Charlotte SA, NC Courage, and Richmond are clearly the top 3 clubs overall. NC Courage swept BRYC and Arlington this past weekend. We know BRYC is struggling, but wasn't Arlington considered a "strong" club in Girls Academy last year??

Yes Arlington is doing about the same as they did in GA. Over Ga and ECNL are the same. No difference. Sorry ECNL parents.

Arlington's highest placed team in all age groups is in the 5th place. I thought they did a lot better than that in GA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There have only been a handful of games, but you currently have U13 Loudoun, U15 VA Union and U16 VDA sitting in first place of their age groups. But outside of a single team within each age group, DMV area clubs seem to be struggling on a whole. When averaging the sum of points for each club (U13 thru U18/19), Charlotte SA, NC Courage, and Richmond are clearly the top 3 clubs overall. NC Courage swept BRYC and Arlington this past weekend. We know BRYC is struggling, but wasn't Arlington considered a "strong" club in Girls Academy last year??

Yes Arlington is doing about the same as they did in GA. Over Ga and ECNL are the same. No difference. Sorry ECNL parents.

Arlington's highest placed team in all age groups is in the 5th place. I thought they did a lot better than that in GA.

Yeah, that 5th place team lost to Charlotte SA 1-5 and just lost to NC Courage 0-5. Looks like there will be more losses on the radar. They only had 3 losses in 18 GA league games last year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There have only been a handful of games, but you currently have U13 Loudoun, U15 VA Union and U16 VDA sitting in first place of their age groups. But outside of a single team within each age group, DMV area clubs seem to be struggling on a whole. When averaging the sum of points for each club (U13 thru U18/19), Charlotte SA, NC Courage, and Richmond are clearly the top 3 clubs overall. NC Courage swept BRYC and Arlington this past weekend. We know BRYC is struggling, but wasn't Arlington considered a "strong" club in Girls Academy last year??

Yes Arlington is doing about the same as they did in GA. Over Ga and ECNL are the same. No difference. Sorry ECNL parents.

Arlington's highest placed team in all age groups is in the 5th place. I thought they did a lot better than that in GA.

Yeah, that 5th place team lost to Charlotte SA 1-5 and just lost to NC Courage 0-5. Looks like there will be more losses on the radar. They only had 3 losses in 18 GA league games last year.

Which team is that? There are 6 you know.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There have only been a handful of games, but you currently have U13 Loudoun, U15 VA Union and U16 VDA sitting in first place of their age groups. But outside of a single team within each age group, DMV area clubs seem to be struggling on a whole. When averaging the sum of points for each club (U13 thru U18/19), Charlotte SA, NC Courage, and Richmond are clearly the top 3 clubs overall. NC Courage swept BRYC and Arlington this past weekend. We know BRYC is struggling, but wasn't Arlington considered a "strong" club in Girls Academy last year??

No surprise: Richmond has access to all the talent in that metro area plus points east, south and west. There are roughly the same number of clubs serving the entire state of NC as there are serving Northern Virginia but NC has 5x the population as norther Virginia.

This is pretty dumb to compare the entire population of NC to northern VA. Just like everywhere else, most of your ECNL rosters are kids from the area. You have Charlotte metro (~2.5M) supplying players to CSA and CISC. Raleigh-Durham metro (~2M) supplies players to Courage and NCFC. Greensboro/Winston-Salem metro (~1.5M) supplies players to NC Fusion. Poor Wilmington really has nothing other than their homegrown. Wilmington population is 120k. The Wasington-Arlington-Alexandria area population alone is 6.5M.