The Herndon Cup was an absolute embarrassment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here . . . I just spoke with three kids in my class who played in the Herndon Tournament this weekend. All three had a great time and said they can’t wait for the next tournament.

Which school district do you work in and more importantly can you afford a single detached house in said district?

[Anonymous]

My son played in the U16B age group. I was shocked that every mini game kicked off within one minute of the scheduled kick-off time on Saturday. Refs were not top quality, but I certainly am not expecting them to be perfect. I can say that we had three officials in each match. Pretty fun event all around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid plays SYA rec and he was really disappointed that SYA canceled all stars this year, he really enjoys this tournament. It was never even mentioned to parents as canceled, they just didn't put teams together for above 5th grade when every other previous season, they have. Last spring the put older teams into the terrible valor tournament so I guess they are motivated to do it only when our money goes right to valor profits?

We are going to switch to another rec soccer league in spring and hope its better run then SYA.

My daughter would have been so disappointed if our rec league decided 6th grade and up was "too old" for all stars. That's lame!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here . . . I just spoke with three kids in my class who played in the Herndon Tournament this weekend. All three had a great time and said they can’t wait for the next tournament.

Which school district do you work in and more importantly can you afford a single detached house in said district?

FCPS. Yes, and a lot more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid plays SYA rec and he was really disappointed that SYA canceled all stars this year, he really enjoys this tournament. It was never even mentioned to parents as canceled, they just didn't put teams together for above 5th grade when every other previous season, they have. Last spring the put older teams into the terrible valor tournament so I guess they are motivated to do it only when our money goes right to valor profits?

We are going to switch to another rec soccer league in spring and hope its better run then SYA.

My daughter would have been so disappointed if our rec league decided 6th grade and up was "too old" for all stars. That's lame!

+100. My kids had a great time at this tournament. Why would a rec league limit it to just u-littles? That's dumb.

[Anonymous]

My dd also had a great time.

Frankly, we would quit any rec league like SYA that would be so dismissive of older rec players that they only cared to organize younger teams for all stars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dd also had a great time.

Frankly, we would quit any rec league like SYA that would be so dismissive of older rec players that they only cared to organize younger teams for all stars.

Is it possible that the older SYA teams just really don’t have enough good players? Doesn’t SYA try to funnel anyone halfway decent into a lower level valor team so they can make more money off them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here . . . I just spoke with three kids in my class who played in the Herndon Tournament this weekend. All three had a great time and said they can’t wait for the next tournament.

Which school district do you work in and more importantly can you afford a single detached house in said district?

FCPS. Yes, and a lot more.

Skeptical that you can afford said type of home on a public teacher salary. Math ain’t mathing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dd also had a great time.

Frankly, we would quit any rec league like SYA that would be so dismissive of older rec players that they only cared to organize younger teams for all stars.

Is it possible that the older SYA teams just really don’t have enough good players? Doesn’t SYA try to funnel anyone halfway decent into a lower level valor team so they can make more money off them?

No. Last spring they had all star teams at all the age groups in the all star tournament. Last fall they had all star teams at all the age groups in the herndon tournament.

Unless they had a huge exodus due to shoddy program, it doesn't make sense that all of a sudden they don't have any players for all star team over elementary age when they always did
every other season. this seems like a programming/disinterest from management issues.