Spring Travel Soccer Tryouts 2018
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Anonymous
100% agree. We make the trip from Woodbridge to Robinson. It is a long trip, but at least it is up 123 against traffic. |
Anonymous
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I have a question about ASA tryouts (2009 Boys, if it matters). For the kids who make it through the "cattle call" tryouts, does ASA assign them a color team before the deadline to accept/decline the ASA travel roster spot?
DS tried out (with ASA) last year, made the first cut into the travel program, and attended the "sorting" tryout (I don't know what it's called, but the session for all the kids who had made it through the cattle call tryouts, and were now being sorted into the color teams). We were on the fence between doing travel and doing ADP, and ultimately decided on ADP. We declined the travel offer a couple of days before the deadline for decisions, and before DS had been assigned to a color team. Now we're back in the same travel vs. ADP quandary again this year. DS has had a wonderful ADP experience, but is still interested in travel. If he were to make it through the travel tryouts, it might be helpful to know what team he would be on before deciding whether to accept the roster spot (and forgo ADP). Perhaps the weakest travel team isn't a big enough upgrade over his (rather good) ADP team to justify the increased cost and time commitment? Does anyone know how this process works? We short-circuited it last year, and didn't get to see how the order of operations works at the tail end of the tryout process. Any thoughts on the relative merits of lower travel teams versus ADP? |
Anonymous
Annapolis Soccer Association? |
Anonymous
Any age after U9 - you will be told the team color with offer. Only U9s go through the second sorting/placement tryout. I assume your kid is a U10 this year. Since you are mentioning ADP I assume this is Arlington—guessing this isn’t ASA (Alexandria also ASA) or Annapolis. |
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FPYC Tryouts Posted
http://fpycsports.com/sports/soccer/travel-teams |
Anonymous
SYA and CYA are not merging, CYA leadership sent out a note a few weeks ago. They are neighboring clubs so the practice fields are jumbled together, CYA is really Rt 50 and around. SYA is just a bit west and uses fields near Fair Lakes, Chantilly (ECL off of 28 and 66), and their home field is in Centreville. Both clubs have posted their tryout schedules. |
Anonymous
So Arlington starts U9 travel tryouts weeks before everyone else, holds three sessions, forces a decision to join if given an offer and then holds a fourth session only after accepting to find out what team he/she will be on? That's absolutely preposterous. What if you accept and end up on the lowest team instead of trying other strong clubs where your kid might make the top two teams (Usually better training than lower teams). Does this happen at McLean, Alexandria, VYS or BRYC? |
Anonymous
A couple of years back, we tried out at 3 out of 4 of those mentioned above in the past and received top offers after the first tryout. I hear Arlington makes you go through the entire process. |
Anonymous
Thanks, PP! Yes, I am asking about Arlington. Sorry for the confusion caused by mentioning ASA (I'm obviously new here!). DS will be U10 this year, so thanks for explaining how things will differ from the U9 tryout process. It's good to know that the team color will come with the offer. I wonder how good a job the coaches do of "sorting" and placing the kids on to color teams during the tryouts, while also weeding out all of the kids who won't make the travel program at all? I suppose most of the kids who make it through the tryouts will already have played U9, so the coaches will already have a good idea of which color team they will assign them. Any thoughts on how worthwhile the training/playing experience is on the lower Arlington teams? |
Anonymous
| I think ASA coaches email you after selection and tell you which team you're on before you accept the offer. At least they did for the 09 girls we know who were accepted last year. |
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10:32 - re: playing on a lower color team. It kind of depends. We played on the "F" team last year, which ended up being the "E" team in terms of season record. During the tryouts for the second year, 4 girls stayed on F, 2 girls moved to E, and 4 girls moved to the B and C team. 1 girl was cut. Similar results on the E team. So there is movement available if you can stand out on a lower team. If you get noticed by a higher team, you can get asked to sub in for games when they have players absent.
As for playing on the F team, I feel like the level of training was in general better than rec or ADP, in part because of 3 weekly practices vs. 1-2 and a year-round training schedule. Plus all the coaches are pros, and some are VERY good. Games were tough because most of the clubs do not have 6 teams at the same age like ASA does, so our 6th team was often playing some other club's 3rd team. We got creamed in most of our first season of games. In our second season, we won about 1/2 of our games, and the losses were close. We did ok in tournament play. My daughter was the one who got cut, so we switched to ADP. Things I like about ADP: the cost - around $600/year vs. $2,400/year. Big difference. I like not having to give up all my holiday weekends for tournaments and I like not driving to Ellicott City or Haymarket. I like not having to get to Long Bridge park by 4:35 on a Monday for skills training. They're more casual about uniforms for games and practice, which is nice if you're scrambling to get out of the house with all the uniform parts. Things I don't like: ADP schedules things last, after rec and travel, so you can have more conflicts with other activities. And the training can be uneven depending on the coaches you get - it's 1/2 volunteer coaching, 1/2 pro coaching. Teams are supposed to be evenly matched, but they do try to keep existing teams largely intact, so the teams that played together the year before have already gelled and a new team can have a hard time beating them. And the commitment level of the kids can be lower. Travel kids are mostly pretty committed. |
Anonymous
Fantastic list. You could add these two: Annandale, VA: Cougar Youth Club Alexandria-Arlington, VA: Gunston Soccer Club |
Anonymous
Gunston is already there but Cougars Youth Club (with an "s") is a good catch. |
Anonymous
Springfield VA has - SYC (https://www.sycva.com/) and Doradas (formly Barca) http://doradus.club/ Lorton has - SCAA http://www.scaasoccer.net/ Hence the problem with FFX County. Way too many clubs dipping from the same child pool. Its why Loudoun and Arlington dominate. |
Anonymous
So this is why you go to a few practices before the tryouts. You can see if your kid likes the coach, other kids, speed of play and style of practice. I think if you work quickly- ie contact Arlington, you can get to a least one practice before tryouts. |