Herndon club

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Anonymous wrote:HYS needs those girls from Sterling just to be able to field teams so the price they pay isn’t important, they just need to field teams.

Similar to west VA and the boys. Neither club has enough talented players so they get together and create a decent team but since west va needs help, Sterling kids pay the Sterling price

How does that work? Do kids really travel from Sterling to practice in West Virginia? Are the teams either all Sterling kids or all West VA kids with practices sited accordingly? Where are the home games played? In Sterling or in West VA?

I'm curious about this as well. If we can practice and play home games in Sterling and play MLS Next for half the price Herndon is charging. well...that's a tempting switch.

They're Sterling teams playing under West Virginia. They practice 3x a week in Sterling and 1 time a week in Frederick. There is the expectation that you go to all 4 practices. Home games on WV fields, not Sterling fields. My son plays for one of these teams, we've been happy so far with the level of competition and the coaching. The boys experience has been very different from the girls experience with these partnerships, I'm guessing due to the level of skill on the teams.

Home games in Frederick is a real drag though.

[Anonymous]

Oh sorry, misread, home games in WV is pretty bad too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh sorry, misread, home games in WV is pretty bad too.

I live close enough to the Sterling practice fields that it evens out. For me, driving 20-30 minutes to practice 3x a week for a different club vs driving 45 minutes to home field is a win.

[Anonymous]

If you think about it, probably a bunch of their "away" games aren't terribly far away, like McLean or The St James, so that probably takes the sting out of home games in West VA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HYS needs those girls from Sterling just to be able to field teams so the price they pay isn’t important, they just need to field teams.

Similar to west VA and the boys. Neither club has enough talented players so they get together and create a decent team but since west va needs help, Sterling kids pay the Sterling price

How does that work? Do kids really travel from Sterling to practice in West Virginia? Are the teams either all Sterling kids or all West VA kids with practices sited accordingly? Where are the home games played? In Sterling or in West VA?

I'm curious about this as well. If we can practice and play home games in Sterling and play MLS Next for half the price Herndon is charging. well...that's a tempting switch.

They're Sterling teams playing under West Virginia. They practice 3x a week in Sterling and 1 time a week in Frederick. There is the expectation that you go to all 4 practices. Home games on WV fields, not Sterling fields. My son plays for one of these teams, we've been happy so far with the level of competition and the coaching. The boys experience has been very different from the girls experience with these partnerships, I'm guessing due to the level of skill on the teams.

Do you have to be a current Sterling player to go to the MLS next tryouts for West Virginia under the Sterling umbrella?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HYS needs those girls from Sterling just to be able to field teams so the price they pay isn’t important, they just need to field teams.

Similar to west VA and the boys. Neither club has enough talented players so they get together and create a decent team but since west va needs help, Sterling kids pay the Sterling price

How does that work? Do kids really travel from Sterling to practice in West Virginia? Are the teams either all Sterling kids or all West VA kids with practices sited accordingly? Where are the home games played? In Sterling or in West VA?

I'm curious about this as well. If we can practice and play home games in Sterling and play MLS Next for half the price Herndon is charging. well...that's a tempting switch.

They're Sterling teams playing under West Virginia. They practice 3x a week in Sterling and 1 time a week in Frederick. There is the expectation that you go to all 4 practices. Home games on WV fields, not Sterling fields. My son plays for one of these teams, we've been happy so far with the level of competition and the coaching. The boys experience has been very different from the girls experience with these partnerships, I'm guessing due to the level of skill on the teams.

Do you have to be a current Sterling player to go to the MLS next tryouts for West Virginia under the Sterling umbrella?

tryouts are open to everyone. If you go to the Sterling website there’s information about their tryouts for the fall season specific to MLS Next.

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Anonymous wrote:Are those prices what sterling charges on the boys side for their west Va MLS next AD teams?

Can’t be much more because anyone who could afford more and has skills is playing somewhere else. Only people left are the ones that can’t afford another club’s prices or aren’t good enough to make those teams

You're acting like their teams are bottom feeders. They're both ranked 8/14 in their division, they're able to hold their own in games.

They’re not and the good kids are the ones that can’t afford to go anywhere else hence why they’re still there. Any kid from
Sterling who gets an offer to play for any other club for same price is out the door that day, I know because my kid has done it and a couple went to GFR for matching prices