NoVA Player appreciation post

[Anonymous]

Liv stafford at Vandy came from Arlington and we are all thrilled to see her success this year (although it was also exactly what we expected because she’s amazing)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of Union and VDA, Where's Arlington?

This post literally started off about an Arlington player.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure how to follow the not naming players rule here, but I feel like NoVA and Arlington should be super proud of Olivia Stafford. She’s been a true standout for Vandy, easily being in the top 25 freshmen in the US, and now she just won “all SEC Championship team” as a freshman! With Vandy earning a #1 seed, who knows how far she can go?

My daughter didn’t play directly with Olivia, and she forwent HS soccer at our HS (but led the school to Lax and field hockey state titles), but what she tells me is that Olivia is unquestionably one of the best athletes she’s ever seen.

Hats off to her family and to Arlington.

Are there other NoVA girls killing it we should be supporting?

Olivia and Vandy are having a fantastic year! She was also named to the SEC All-Freshman Team. There's nice representation of local clubs at top 25 ranked schools which is awesome. A few others from the area also making a big impact in their freshman season:

Allie Flanagan (VDA; Wake Forest; ACC All Freshman Team)

Y-Lan Nguyen (VDA; Stanford; ACC All Freshman Team)

Grace Shank (Union; UCLA; Big 10 All Freshman Team)

Mya Townes (FCV; Georgia; SEC All Freshman Team)

Shay Montgomery (VDA; Georgetown; All Big East Second Team)

Ayda Pannell (Union; Georgia; Ranked No. 75 on TopDrawerSoccer Midseason Top 100 Freshmen List)

Aryanna Oliver (VDA; Radford; All Big South, U20 NT call up)

[Anonymous]

Sophia Henry, Fr (Army, Jefferson High/Fairfax Union)

More points than any local Freshman this year (24)
6x Freshman of the week.
Helped lead Army to first College Cup since 2011.
Robbed by TopDrawerSoccer and ranked #92.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure how to follow the not naming players rule here, but I feel like NoVA and Arlington should be super proud of Olivia Stafford. She’s been a true standout for Vandy, easily being in the top 25 freshmen in the US, and now she just won “all SEC Championship team” as a freshman! With Vandy earning a #1 seed, who knows how far she can go?

My daughter didn’t play directly with Olivia, and she forwent HS soccer at our HS (but led the school to Lax and field hockey state titles), but what she tells me is that Olivia is unquestionably one of the best athletes she’s ever seen.

Hats off to her family and to Arlington.

Are there other NoVA girls killing it we should be supporting?

Olivia and Vandy are having a fantastic year! She was also named to the SEC All-Freshman Team. There's nice representation of local clubs at top 25 ranked schools which is awesome. A few others from the area also making a big impact in their freshman season:

Allie Flanagan (VDA; Wake Forest; ACC All Freshman Team)

Y-Lan Nguyen (VDA; Stanford; ACC All Freshman Team)

Grace Shank (Union; UCLA; Big 10 All Freshman Team)

Mya Townes (FCV; Georgia; SEC All Freshman Team)

Shay Montgomery (VDA; Georgetown; All Big East Second Team)

Wasn't she at USC last year? Also, wasn't she BRYC before VDA? How many of these VDAs were somewhere else prior to their Jr/Sr year of HS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure how to follow the not naming players rule here, but I feel like NoVA and Arlington should be super proud of Olivia Stafford. She’s been a true standout for Vandy, easily being in the top 25 freshmen in the US, and now she just won “all SEC Championship team” as a freshman! With Vandy earning a #1 seed, who knows how far she can go?

My daughter didn’t play directly with Olivia, and she forwent HS soccer at our HS (but led the school to Lax and field hockey state titles), but what she tells me is that Olivia is unquestionably one of the best athletes she’s ever seen.

Hats off to her family and to Arlington.

Are there other NoVA girls killing it we should be supporting?

Olivia and Vandy are having a fantastic year! She was also named to the SEC All-Freshman Team. There's nice representation of local clubs at top 25 ranked schools which is awesome. A few others from the area also making a big impact in their freshman season:

Allie Flanagan (VDA; Wake Forest; ACC All Freshman Team)

Y-Lan Nguyen (VDA; Stanford; ACC All Freshman Team)

Grace Shank (Union; UCLA; Big 10 All Freshman Team)

Mya Townes (FCV; Georgia; SEC All Freshman Team)

Shay Montgomery (VDA; Georgetown; All Big East Second Team)

Wasn't she at USC last year? Also, wasn't she BRYC before VDA? How many of these VDAs were somewhere else prior to their Jr/Sr year of HS?

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Allie Flanagan / FCV

Y-Lan Nguyen / BRYC

Shay M / BRYC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure how to follow the not naming players rule here, but I feel like NoVA and Arlington should be super proud of Olivia Stafford. She’s been a true standout for Vandy, easily being in the top 25 freshmen in the US, and now she just won “all SEC Championship team” as a freshman! With Vandy earning a #1 seed, who knows how far she can go?

My daughter didn’t play directly with Olivia, and she forwent HS soccer at our HS (but led the school to Lax and field hockey state titles), but what she tells me is that Olivia is unquestionably one of the best athletes she’s ever seen.

Hats off to her family and to Arlington.

Are there other NoVA girls killing it we should be supporting?

Olivia and Vandy are having a fantastic year! She was also named to the SEC All-Freshman Team. There's nice representation of local clubs at top 25 ranked schools which is awesome. A few others from the area also making a big impact in their freshman season:

Allie Flanagan (VDA; Wake Forest; ACC All Freshman Team)

Y-Lan Nguyen (VDA; Stanford; ACC All Freshman Team)

Grace Shank (Union; UCLA; Big 10 All Freshman Team)

Mya Townes (FCV; Georgia; SEC All Freshman Team)

Shay Montgomery (VDA; Georgetown; All Big East Second Team)

Wasn't she at USC last year? Also, wasn't she BRYC before VDA? How many of these VDAs were somewhere else prior to their Jr/Sr year of HS?

Most of them came from elsewhere....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure how to follow the not naming players rule here, but I feel like NoVA and Arlington should be super proud of Olivia Stafford. She’s been a true standout for Vandy, easily being in the top 25 freshmen in the US, and now she just won “all SEC Championship team” as a freshman! With Vandy earning a #1 seed, who knows how far she can go?

My daughter didn’t play directly with Olivia, and she forwent HS soccer at our HS (but led the school to Lax and field hockey state titles), but what she tells me is that Olivia is unquestionably one of the best athletes she’s ever seen.

Hats off to her family and to Arlington.

Are there other NoVA girls killing it we should be supporting?

Olivia and Vandy are having a fantastic year! She was also named to the SEC All-Freshman Team. There's nice representation of local clubs at top 25 ranked schools which is awesome. A few others from the area also making a big impact in their freshman season:

Allie Flanagan (VDA; Wake Forest; ACC All Freshman Team)

Y-Lan Nguyen (VDA; Stanford; ACC All Freshman Team)

Grace Shank (Union; UCLA; Big 10 All Freshman Team)

Mya Townes (FCV; Georgia; SEC All Freshman Team)

Shay Montgomery (VDA; Georgetown; All Big East Second Team)

Wasn't she at USC last year? Also, wasn't she BRYC before VDA? How many of these VDAs were somewhere else prior to their Jr/Sr year of HS?

there

Allie Flanagan / FCV

Y-Lan Nguyen / BRYC

Shay M / BRYC

Loudoun before FCV
VDA in 8th grade
Arlington before BRYC

So who gets credit? Should clubs not post players unless they started at the club when they were eight years old?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure how to follow the not naming players rule here, but I feel like NoVA and Arlington should be super proud of Olivia Stafford. She’s been a true standout for Vandy, easily being in the top 25 freshmen in the US, and now she just won “all SEC Championship team” as a freshman! With Vandy earning a #1 seed, who knows how far she can go?

My daughter didn’t play directly with Olivia, and she forwent HS soccer at our HS (but led the school to Lax and field hockey state titles), but what she tells me is that Olivia is unquestionably one of the best athletes she’s ever seen.

Hats off to her family and to Arlington.

Are there other NoVA girls killing it we should be supporting?

Olivia and Vandy are having a fantastic year! She was also named to the SEC All-Freshman Team. There's nice representation of local clubs at top 25 ranked schools which is awesome. A few others from the area also making a big impact in their freshman season:

Allie Flanagan (VDA; Wake Forest; ACC All Freshman Team)

Y-Lan Nguyen (VDA; Stanford; ACC All Freshman Team)

Grace Shank (Union; UCLA; Big 10 All Freshman Team)

Mya Townes (FCV; Georgia; SEC All Freshman Team)

Shay Montgomery (VDA; Georgetown; All Big East Second Team)

Wasn't she at USC last year? Also, wasn't she BRYC before VDA? How many of these VDAs were somewhere else prior to their Jr/Sr year of HS?

This is her third year at Georgetown. Has not been at USC in quite some time. Thank you for your input though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure how to follow the not naming players rule here, but I feel like NoVA and Arlington should be super proud of Olivia Stafford. She’s been a true standout for Vandy, easily being in the top 25 freshmen in the US, and now she just won “all SEC Championship team” as a freshman! With Vandy earning a #1 seed, who knows how far she can go?

My daughter didn’t play directly with Olivia, and she forwent HS soccer at our HS (but led the school to Lax and field hockey state titles), but what she tells me is that Olivia is unquestionably one of the best athletes she’s ever seen.

Hats off to her family and to Arlington.

Are there other NoVA girls killing it we should be supporting?

Olivia and Vandy are having a fantastic year! She was also named to the SEC All-Freshman Team. There's nice representation of local clubs at top 25 ranked schools which is awesome. A few others from the area also making a big impact in their freshman season:

Allie Flanagan (VDA; Wake Forest; ACC All Freshman Team)

Y-Lan Nguyen (VDA; Stanford; ACC All Freshman Team)

Grace Shank (Union; UCLA; Big 10 All Freshman Team)

Mya Townes (FCV; Georgia; SEC All Freshman Team)

Shay Montgomery (VDA; Georgetown; All Big East Second Team)

Wasn't she at USC last year? Also, wasn't she BRYC before VDA? How many of these VDAs were somewhere else prior to their Jr/Sr year of HS?

Most of them came from elsewhere....

Yes! Players change clubs all the time. It happens every year.

[Anonymous]

From taking a glance, Arlington posted a player that was committed before she even got to Arlington. She’s a senior. Union has a player posted that committed before she got to union. She’s a junior. There’s an ODU commit that played for Vda and just got to union for u19. Should union not post her?

This is totally fine. These players should be celebrated no matter what club they’re at and how many clubs they’ve played for!

Do you see how stupid this conversation is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of Union and VDA, Where's Arlington?

Here we go…

Those two programs make up 90% of DC United and, well, the program is awful. So there’s that…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure how to follow the not naming players rule here, but I feel like NoVA and Arlington should be super proud of Olivia Stafford. She’s been a true standout for Vandy, easily being in the top 25 freshmen in the US, and now she just won “all SEC Championship team” as a freshman! With Vandy earning a #1 seed, who knows how far she can go?

My daughter didn’t play directly with Olivia, and she forwent HS soccer at our HS (but led the school to Lax and field hockey state titles), but what she tells me is that Olivia is unquestionably one of the best athletes she’s ever seen.

Hats off to her family and to Arlington.

Are there other NoVA girls killing it we should be supporting?

Olivia and Vandy are having a fantastic year! She was also named to the SEC All-Freshman Team. There's nice representation of local clubs at top 25 ranked schools which is awesome. A few others from the area also making a big impact in their freshman season:

Allie Flanagan (VDA; Wake Forest; ACC All Freshman Team)

Y-Lan Nguyen (VDA; Stanford; ACC All Freshman Team)

Grace Shank (Union; UCLA; Big 10 All Freshman Team)

Mya Townes (FCV; Georgia; SEC All Freshman Team)

Shay Montgomery (VDA; Georgetown; All Big East Second Team)

Wasn't she at USC last year? Also, wasn't she BRYC before VDA? How many of these VDAs were somewhere else prior to their Jr/Sr year of HS?

there

Allie Flanagan / FCV

Y-Lan Nguyen / BRYC

Shay M / BRYC

Loudoun before FCV
VDA in 8th grade
Arlington before BRYC

So who gets credit? Should clubs not post players unless they started at the club when they were eight years old?

Girls soccer?

[Anonymous]

NoVa gets credit--hence the appreciation thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NoVa gets credit--hence the appreciation thread

And that's what it should really be about. Clubs making these posts is really nothing more than using it as an advertisement. They're like talent agencies at this point.