Private School Soccer Thread

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:St Albans has had a strong soccer team for many years running. But with the departure of the head soccer coach who also happened to be the Admissions Director (yes, a symbiotic relationship) last year, the team is already much less dominant than it has been. Still a winning program, but with teams like Landon nipping at their heels, or paws as it were:

Congrats to St Albans for finishing first in the IAC.

Didn't Landon win it last year? I think 2017 will be even stronger.

No. Landon had a good team but St. Albans won in 2016.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/sports/highschools/second-half-surge-helps-st-albans-top-landon-to-repeat-as-iac-boys-soccer-champs/2016/11/03/add030be-a12c-11e6-8d63-3e0a660f1f04_story.html

[Anonymous]

I'm confused - high school soccer is a fall sport for all private schools and DC? In VA, the soccer season is in the spring? What about in MD?

[Anonymous]

Yes, soccer is a fall sport for the privates, and a spring sport in VA public schools. I'm almost certain it's a fall sport for the MD publics.

[Anonymous]

Maret soccer beat St Albans yesterday.

Maret football beat St Albans last week.

Maret should move into the IAC!

[Anonymous]

Maret would beat St. Albans in hoops too.

Baseball would be very even.

Maret should strongly consider joining the IAC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Helluva trade off. Academy soccer or high school memories.

One can have "high school memories" independent of athletics

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maret would beat St. Albans in hoops too.

Baseball would be very even.

Maret should strongly consider joining the IAC.

They have a strong program now, to be clear, but over the long haul, it is difficult to sustain given sheer numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Helluva trade off. Academy soccer or high school memories.

One can have "high school memories" independent of athletics

For sure. But if you play for your high school, those are some of the fondest and strongest memories most have of their high school experience.

[Anonymous]

My pretty good DD doesn't even play ECNL or DA and they are being advised by the club coaches not to play the majority of games on the private school HS team due to the potential for overuse injuries. Really too bad they make the teams so incompatible. She is going to pay a few games that don't conflict with practice days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My pretty good DD doesn't even play ECNL or DA and they are being advised by the club coaches not to play the majority of games on the private school HS team due to the potential for overuse injuries. Really too bad they make the teams so incompatible. She is going to pay a few games that don't conflict with practice days.

Classic example of how the club coaches operate. It is about lining their own pockets, in large part.

[Anonymous]

I know it's early in the season, but how are the teams in the IAC looking?

[Anonymous]

Landon has been dominant thus far.

Big game tomorrow vs DeMatha.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maret would beat St. Albans in hoops too.

Baseball would be very even.

Maret should strongly consider joining the IAC.

Please. You can't just "join" the IAC you have to get voted in. Plus, there are schools, such as Potomac, which would be voted in before Maret. As far as the IAC got, lacrosse matters more than any other sport and Maret is bottom of the barrel in lax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Landon has been dominant thus far.

Big game tomorrow vs DeMatha.

How did that game go?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Landon has been dominant thus far.

Big game tomorrow vs DeMatha.

How did that game go?

it's today