ECNL Tryouts - March or May?

[Anonymous]

Ill give you guys the answer you are looking for! Super Y is best at the younger ages, at u14 and above, it is not very beneficial, unless playing for your club team in summer is a must over alt training. Also, a mid can get some shine for super y mvp, etc, trophy...

March 1 is the key date for ECNL players for va to be able to formally "tryout" for another ECNL club. Obviously if your DC is a known player, it is not really a tryout, the other coach knows them, and it is more of a getting familiar with the team and style of play, etc.

My son did Super y for many years and loved the experience!

[Anonymous]

If trying out for U13, Super Y is definitely a way to get in early for ECNL. Saw it last year in VA.

[Anonymous]

I heard Arlington uses Super Y to do some early tryouts.

As a parent who has been through all this. Kids don't go skipping school for Super Y. Parents don't use 4 days of vacation. Save that for something that really matters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any one who is taking off 4 days from school and missing work for Super Y need a reality check

LOL true!

My kid has a friend who indeed missed school for this. I was certainly surprised when I heard they traveled to FL to mostly play the same DC-area teams they always do. But once you’re on the treadmill, it’s hard to get off.

[Anonymous]

Super Y is good for anyone whose kid enjoys playing soccer when options are limited and the parents have the disposable income to provide it for them...including a nice trip to FL.

[Anonymous]

Super Y tryouts are a good way to feel out different clubs and get some visibility before that March 1st date…also some practice being in a tryout environment for your kid.
The Tampa Super Y finals (if your team makes it) are a super fun experience for the kids, but expensive...and likely you will end up playing at least one other team from the DMV while there. As the previous poster said, probably not worth it over U13.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard Arlington uses Super Y to do some early tryouts.

As a parent who has been through all this. Kids don't go skipping school for Super Y. Parents don't use 4 days of vacation. Save that for something that really matters.

Super Y has seemed to evolve over the last few years. There are many more clubs that have a team compared to even a de years ago. As others have said, clubs are using it as a recruiting tool while pressuring their own players to do it to have another stream of revenue for their coaches.

Seemingly half the teams make the “finals” in Tampa and the team pays a big penalty if they do not go. A racket within a racket.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard Arlington uses Super Y to do some early tryouts.

As a parent who has been through all this. Kids don't go skipping school for Super Y. Parents don't use 4 days of vacation. Save that for something that really matters.

No Arlington just puts their same kids on the team as their existing less the top team players who do not want to play Super Y. There is no tryouts or movement of players down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard Arlington uses Super Y to do some early tryouts.

As a parent who has been through all this. Kids don't go skipping school for Super Y. Parents don't use 4 days of vacation. Save that for something that really matters.

Super Y has seemed to evolve over the last few years. There are many more clubs that have a team compared to even a de years ago. As others have said, clubs are using it as a recruiting tool while pressuring their own players to do it to have another stream of revenue for their coaches.

Seemingly half the teams make the “finals” in Tampa and the team pays a big penalty if they do not go. A racket within a racket.

Half the teams do not make the finals. Mid-Atlantic is allotted more than other regions but it's average 2 teams in the top bracket and 1 team in the 2nd bracket. That's max 3/16 or so teams. Usually only first place makes it for older ages or other regions

[Anonymous]

once you’re on the treadmill, it’s hard to get off.

Love that line.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:once you’re on the treadmill, it’s hard to get off.

Love that line.

+1 on getting off the treadmill. The problem is if your child thinks they *might* want to go down the playing in college path, there are certain things they need to be doing at u13/14 to be in the best possible position to reach that goal or else they will fall behind and it will be a tougher road. But there is a chance they will not want it by 15/16 and by that time they have put so much in it's hard to get off that treadmill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:once you’re on the treadmill, it’s hard to get off.

Love that line.

Only in metaphors. Otherwise, very easy to get off that treadmill. Do it often and sometimes never get on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard Arlington uses Super Y to do some early tryouts.

As a parent who has been through all this. Kids don't go skipping school for Super Y. Parents don't use 4 days of vacation. Save that for something that really matters.

Super Y has seemed to evolve over the last few years. There are many more clubs that have a team compared to even a de years ago. As others have said, clubs are using it as a recruiting tool while pressuring their own players to do it to have another stream of revenue for their coaches.

Seemingly half the teams make the “finals” in Tampa and the team pays a big penalty if they do not go. A racket within a racket.

Half the teams do not make the finals. Mid-Atlantic is allotted more than other regions but it's average 2 teams in the top bracket and 1 team in the 2nd bracket. That's max 3/16 or so teams. Usually only first place makes it for older ages or other regions

For u13 girls there were 3 brackets of 5 top 2 teams each bracket made it and a 3rd place wild card team made it so 7 out of 15 teams. Look at the finals 2 arlington teams played against each other in “national finals” of u15. Finals are inviting more and more teams and are a total money grab. They started taking U12 a few years back and I’m sure they will figure out they can make more money if they invite u11 soon.

[Anonymous]

We were just at the Super Y finals. If you can afford the travel and time off from work and school it was a worthwhile experience. The kids loved it, and the quality of play was good. It's true that a lot of local teams go. However, even though there were 5 local U13 girls teams, there were 4 groups so maybe only one game out of all 5 days had local teams playing each other. Other divisions did have two local teams playing in the finals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any one who is taking off 4 days from school and missing work for Super Y need a reality check

Hahahahahaha
Hundreds of thousands need reality check when it comes to kids sports 🙂