Does your soccer club change your team’s practice schedule to accommodate daylight savings?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Travel teams should have fields with lighting. It will get too dark before the time change actually occurs

But they don’t because certain areas fight hard against not having lights on Fields because of light pollution/noise pollution in the evenings. I’m looking at you Fairfax and Arlington. Typically only the oldest and best teams are practicing on the field with lights.

[Anonymous]

Our team already scheduled adjusted practices and they’re on our schedule. It’s just for two weeks.

[Anonymous]

Other after school activities?!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[Anonymous]

For our club, they can't move the practice times of the later teams too much because the field is booked solid in the earlier time blocks. So the unlit fields schedules just adjust slightly so everyone has shorter practice times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes this sounds par for the course for PPA.

Administrative mess. But some nice coaches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes this sounds par for the course for PPA.

Yes, it’s ppa. Do they usually move one hour early on the original practice days or move the practice days as well in October?

It's completely unpredictable. Sometimes it changes every week at the last minute.

[Anonymous]

Yup. Move practice times back 15 minutes to start and then eventually shorten practices later in fall. Our club fields don’t have lights but some teams will rent city or school fields that do.

[Anonymous]

I thought they got rid of Daylight Savings Time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes this sounds par for the course for PPA.

Yes, it’s ppa. Do they usually move one hour early on the original practice days or move the practice days as well in October?

It's completely unpredictable. Sometimes it changes every week at the last minute.

+1
I thought it wasn't just them but after switching we realized there are clubs that are organized and can look at a calendar and book appropriate fields for the time and season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes this sounds par for the course for PPA.

Yes, it’s ppa. Do they usually move one hour early on the original practice days or move the practice days as well in October?

Just move one hour earlier. Sometimes random field changes but that’s atypical

Thank you! DC really wants to sign up for an after-school classs at school, which is on one of the current practice days and right before the current practice time. Moving the practices one hour earlier will make it impossible ☹️

Shifts can be days, times sometimes differing by two hours or more. I would not count on it.

[Anonymous]

November will be the end of the fall season. Winter usually has a completely different schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes this sounds par for the course for PPA.

Yes, it’s ppa. Do they usually move one hour early on the original practice days or move the practice days as well in October?

It's completely unpredictable. Sometimes it changes every week at the last minute.

Wish we had known this before picking the club….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes this sounds par for the course for PPA.

Yes, it’s ppa. Do they usually move one hour early on the original practice days or move the practice days as well in October?

It's completely unpredictable. Sometimes it changes every week at the last minute.

+1
I thought it wasn't just them but after switching we realized there are clubs that are organized and can look at a calendar and book appropriate fields for the time and season.

Thetr arent enough fields to go around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes this sounds par for the course for PPA.

Yes, it’s ppa. Do they usually move one hour early on the original practice days or move the practice days as well in October?

Our PPA team completely changed practices for the time change last year. Same days, but different times and fields.
We’re in lit turf fields this season though, so it should stay the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes this sounds par for the course for PPA.

Yes, it’s ppa. Do they usually move one hour early on the original practice days or move the practice days as well in October?

Our PPA team completely changed practices for the time change last year. Same days, but different times and fields.
We’re in lit turf fields this season though, so it should stay the same.

Yeah, they got a lot of flack for their terrible practice scheduling.
Hopefully they’ve learned from it, and improved this year.