2025 Girls Academy Winter Showcase (CA)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Everything I read threads that turn into this type of conversation about P4 and D1, D2, etc it just makes no sense when people actually think about.

Approx 350 kids a year commit to P4...that is it. According to some, if you are not one of those 350 kids you are a loser, suck, wasted your life, etc.

crazy

Nope. But parents wasted 10's of thousands, maybe 100's of thousands by the time it's realized. Clubs and leagues committing fraud to stay relevant.

Define “wasted” to you?

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Anonymous wrote:Cc destroyed the vrsc 09 team by being overly ambition and selecting second rate players. He's also overly influenced by ED who didn't get along with BP because he so unorganized. cc will likely quit or get fired. allhedoes is yell and berate young female players. That team only had one goalie and they had to promise her full time to get her on the team. I don't know how he get immunity from his 2 year old antics. No other coach has such immunity. He clearly doesn't develop players. The ECNL teams in the area aren't much better. You have BP stealing talent from all the other clubs to stack teams. Fairfax Union or whatever it's called now has dropped significantly for similar reasons. All that's left is Arlington and VDA for decent ECNL teams. GA will soon surpass these clubs because it's a better turn league and has a strategic advantage with the boys teams in MLS next. These clubs all basically crap on girls soccer

This was posted a few times before, sitting on his beach chair and only standing up to yell like an angry drunkard. It’s evident who’s forcing moderator to delete posts and entire threads.
Forget about ED or the Johnsons, those can barely communicate efficiently let alone coach young female athletes

Is it true VRSC is inviting him and his crew to leave the OneFamily?

Why would they? Almost every team has improved vs. last year. The guy literally has multiple Nat’l Championships, USWNT and USYNT players under his belt.

There are three GA coaches, CC, MJ, and JU. ED and JJ are just hanging around the sidelines and have nothing to do with the GA teams' performance this year, although they'll have a role for any future homegrown ulittle talent. CC has a track record that is matched by very few coaches in the DMV, that's just a fact, but things don't seem to be headed in the right direction for his teams. If he and VRSC parted ways, who would replace him? Hard to imagine the club could attract someone with a better track record. MJ used to coach at FCV (he left several years before CC) but he was not a GA coach there, and he coached some very bad VRSC teams before the GA era began. JU did not come to VRSC via FCV, he came through the boys side and this is his first year coaching with CC. What do people think about him? It's easy to complain about the coaches, but turning around a program as weak as VRSC's girls program was never going to happen overnight. Maybe it never will. FCV rarely developed ulittle talent, instead they stole it from other clubs, but VRSC is not in a position to steal top talent from anyone.

What’s the actual track record? Taking credit for BP’s work?

I guess you were not around years ago when this board was filled with hate for BP. At that time it was commonly said BP was taking credit for CC’s work.

Except the results this year indicate it was BP's work after all. C doesn't hold his players accountable for their shortcomings and therefor they never develop. E is the same. They just pick favorites and try to ride the wave. In this case, the wave is crash and burn. Then there is MJ who is just bad. He has no clue what is occuring right in front of him. His practices consists of lectures and players being disconnected, standing around bored. E ran away from the 11's because he failed them and lots of complaints. M stepped in and basically failed even worse. The only people not complaining are the favorites who get to play the whole game. Those are the very players who don't get better. These coaches don't really care because the clubs don't do anything about it and they still get their large paycheck for baby sitting.

I don't know the details on the 11s and how these guys failed them but is it possible they're just not that good? What was the failure?

Mediocre at best. The coaching staff doesn’t have much to work with in that age group. Parents are delusional.

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When it comes to college commits you all give waaaay too much credit and blame to the coaches and the club.

The coaches and clubs who can bring in the best talent at the HS age groups has the best commits. There is no magic.

VDA 2008/2009 teams with BP have some stellar commits. But if all those players had moved to VRSC before committing, they would still have landed at the same P4/D1’s under CC .

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Anonymous wrote:Cc destroyed the vrsc 09 team by being overly ambition and selecting second rate players. He's also overly influenced by ED who didn't get along with BP because he so unorganized. cc will likely quit or get fired. allhedoes is yell and berate young female players. That team only had one goalie and they had to promise her full time to get her on the team. I don't know how he get immunity from his 2 year old antics. No other coach has such immunity. He clearly doesn't develop players. The ECNL teams in the area aren't much better. You have BP stealing talent from all the other clubs to stack teams. Fairfax Union or whatever it's called now has dropped significantly for similar reasons. All that's left is Arlington and VDA for decent ECNL teams. GA will soon surpass these clubs because it's a better turn league and has a strategic advantage with the boys teams in MLS next. These clubs all basically crap on girls soccer

This was posted a few times before, sitting on his beach chair and only standing up to yell like an angry drunkard. It’s evident who’s forcing moderator to delete posts and entire threads.
Forget about ED or the Johnsons, those can barely communicate efficiently let alone coach young female athletes

Is it true VRSC is inviting him and his crew to leave the OneFamily?

Why would they? Almost every team has improved vs. last year. The guy literally has multiple Nat’l Championships, USWNT and USYNT players under his belt.

This is crazy, this sounds like my DD old coach to a T and we are half way across the country. Best decision was to finally leave. Only wish we'd have done it sooner.

There are three GA coaches, CC, MJ, and JU. ED and JJ are just hanging around the sidelines and have nothing to do with the GA teams' performance this year, although they'll have a role for any future homegrown ulittle talent. CC has a track record that is matched by very few coaches in the DMV, that's just a fact, but things don't seem to be headed in the right direction for his teams. If he and VRSC parted ways, who would replace him? Hard to imagine the club could attract someone with a better track record. MJ used to coach at FCV (he left several years before CC) but he was not a GA coach there, and he coached some very bad VRSC teams before the GA era began. JU did not come to VRSC via FCV, he came through the boys side and this is his first year coaching with CC. What do people think about him? It's easy to complain about the coaches, but turning around a program as weak as VRSC's girls program was never going to happen overnight. Maybe it never will. FCV rarely developed ulittle talent, instead they stole it from other clubs, but VRSC is not in a position to steal top talent from anyone.

rumor has it GD is headed to VRSC.

I heard this too. Taking at least one GA team in spring season. What kind of coach is he?

He's a nightmare. Search Gus Donolo in this forum and don't say you weren't warned.

Search results don’t include any specific info other than “not showing up,” which seems to be focused on a time before he left a club (maybe FCV), and training kids privately as a side gig, which I couldn’t care less about. Searching for “GD” gets thousand of hits for obvious reason. Does anyone have specific info on his approach to coaching?

He runs the same practices over and over again, does not develop players. Decent in game coach but if things aren't going his way he will throw a tantrum.

Also, you should care about his private training b/c if your kid plays for him you'll be expected to do it and if you don't your kid will not make it to his favorites list and therefore will be treated like crap.

He is a terrible example for young girls, he will literally trash the players on the field to the girls on the bench and then rage sub them when they make a mistake. He won't talk to them about what they did wrong and eventually they'll just lose all of their confidence.

Is there anyone that has ANYTHING nice to say about him?

Nobody has anything nice to say about anything. Hence, this board

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Anonymous wrote:When it comes to college commits you all give waaaay too much credit and blame to the coaches and the club.

The coaches and clubs who can bring in the best talent at the HS age groups has the best commits. There is no magic.

VDA 2008/2009 teams with BP have some stellar commits. But if all those players had moved to VRSC before committing, they would still have landed at the same P4/D1’s under CC .

Are you really sure about that? Yeah, the players talent will carry them pretty far but some of it is still related to coaches and their connections. You are probably right that the USYNT players and a few other top players could probably play anywhere, maybe, and still attract the same level of offers. But where it does make a difference is with some of those fringe players - connections and relationships do make a difference. It's no different than the professional world - it's a lot of who you know.

BTW, this may add fuel to the whole D1 or bust, ride the bench mentality that appears on these threads.

And, to make sure that I contribute to the original thread topic, Hell yeah, the weather was much nicer in CA than it was in KC when I was freezing my buns off watching a whole lot of kind of meaningless soccer with my DDs U17 team that is pretty much all committed. Good Luck!

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Anonymous wrote:When it comes to college commits you all give waaaay too much credit and blame to the coaches and the club.

The coaches and clubs who can bring in the best talent at the HS age groups has the best commits. There is no magic.

VDA 2008/2009 teams with BP have some stellar commits. But if all those players had moved to VRSC before committing, they would still have landed at the same P4/D1’s under CC .

Are you really sure about that? Yeah, the players talent will carry them pretty far but some of it is still related to coaches and their connections. You are probably right that the USYNT players and a few other top players could probably play anywhere, maybe, and still attract the same level of offers. But where it does make a difference is with some of those fringe players - connections and relationships do make a difference. It's no different than the professional world - it's a lot of who you know.

BTW, this may add fuel to the whole D1 or bust, ride the bench mentality that appears on these threads.

And, to make sure that I contribute to the original thread topic, Hell yeah, the weather was much nicer in CA than it was in KC when I was freezing my buns off watching a whole lot of kind of meaningless soccer with my DDs U17 team that is pretty much all committed. Good Luck!

Club coach connection may get them some more opportunities for looks but it is not getting a college coach to take a fringe player. 1) The club coach is not going to push something that isn’t there because it would kill their credibility with colleges and 2) College coaches make their own judgements while watching them play.

Most of the work for recruiting is done by the players themselves, sending highlight film, showcase schedules, follow ups, phone calls. Coach connections do less than you think.

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- The d1 vs d3 thing was all 😳

- This is a soccer thread & why we all come here. What this sub forum is not is one discussing education.

- With that said if you are playing at Arlington, Bethesda, Fairfax Union, MD United, NVA, Richmond United, VDA or VRSC it’s your goal & dream to play d1. Anything beneath that soccer wise is a bust. Players playing & spending less on ECNL RL, EDP, GA Aspire or NCSL are making d3 rosters without spending as much & traveling.

- One doesn’t get treated the same playing d1 as they d2 or d3.

- Strictly talking soccer and not academics.

Sorry but you strike me as Al Bundy/Uncle Rico type. Sports is life. Der.

Some of us are looking to optimize sports and academics. I also seriously doubt you actually know much about D3, but why would you I guess. Wash U roster is loaded. GA and ECNL members that could have played almost anywhere. One was on the Canadian National team for u17. But you wouldn't have a clue about that.

I dont get why people get so hung up on D1. A third of freshmen girls entered the portal. Want to guess how many did in D3?

But you enjoy the job prospects of a Coppin State or Arkansas Pine Bluff degree while the Canadian National Team member majors in data science at Wash U 🤣

As Judge Smails so appropriately put it, the world needs ditch diggers too.............

4 years vs 40 my friends.........

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- The d1 vs d3 thing was all 😳

- This is a soccer thread & why we all come here. What this sub forum is not is one discussing education.

- With that said if you are playing at Arlington, Bethesda, Fairfax Union, MD United, NVA, Richmond United, VDA or VRSC it’s your goal & dream to play d1. Anything beneath that soccer wise is a bust. Players playing & spending less on ECNL RL, EDP, GA Aspire or NCSL are making d3 rosters without spending as much & traveling.

- One doesn’t get treated the same playing d1 as they d2 or d3.

- Strictly talking soccer and not academics.

Sorry but you strike me as Al Bundy/Uncle Rico type. Sports is life. Der.

Some of us are looking to optimize sports and academics. I also seriously doubt you actually know much about D3, but why would you I guess. Wash U roster is loaded. GA and ECNL members that could have played almost anywhere. One was on the Canadian National team for u17. But you wouldn't have a clue about that.

I dont get why people get so hung up on D1. A third of freshmen girls entered the portal. Want to guess how many did in D3?

But you enjoy the job prospects of a Coppin State or Arkansas Pine Bluff degree while the Canadian National Team member majors in data science at Wash U 🤣

As Judge Smails so appropriately put it, the world needs ditch diggers too.............

4 years vs 40 my friends.........

And you strike me as a raciest naming two HBCU universities. You are pure trash.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
- The d1 vs d3 thing was all 😳

- This is a soccer thread & why we all come here. What this sub forum is not is one discussing education.

- With that said if you are playing at Arlington, Bethesda, Fairfax Union, MD United, NVA, Richmond United, VDA or VRSC it’s your goal & dream to play d1. Anything beneath that soccer wise is a bust. Players playing & spending less on ECNL RL, EDP, GA Aspire or NCSL are making d3 rosters without spending as much & traveling.

- One doesn’t get treated the same playing d1 as they d2 or d3.

- Strictly talking soccer and not academics.

Sorry but you strike me as Al Bundy/Uncle Rico type. Sports is life. Der.

Some of us are looking to optimize sports and academics. I also seriously doubt you actually know much about D3, but why would you I guess. Wash U roster is loaded. GA and ECNL members that could have played almost anywhere. One was on the Canadian National team for u17. But you wouldn't have a clue about that.

I dont get why people get so hung up on D1. A third of freshmen girls entered the portal. Want to guess how many did in D3?

But you enjoy the job prospects of a Coppin State or Arkansas Pine Bluff degree while the Canadian National Team member majors in data science at Wash U 🤣

As Judge Smails so appropriately put it, the world needs ditch diggers too.............

4 years vs 40 my friends.........

this is a soccer forum dummy. You are just deflecting. If your kid is smart enough to get into a academic school they are obviously going there for education and soccer is a bonus. Sorry D3 soccer isnt an accomplishment or flex. And likely you are paying for that expensive education.

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- The d1 vs d3 thing was all 😳

- This is a soccer thread & why we all come here. What this sub forum is not is one discussing education.

- With that said if you are playing at Arlington, Bethesda, Fairfax Union, MD United, NVA, Richmond United, VDA or VRSC it’s your goal & dream to play d1. Anything beneath that soccer wise is a bust. Players playing & spending less on ECNL RL, EDP, GA Aspire or NCSL are making d3 rosters without spending as much & traveling.

- One doesn’t get treated the same playing d1 as they d2 or d3.

- Strictly talking soccer and not academics.

Sorry but you strike me as Al Bundy/Uncle Rico type. Sports is life. Der.

Some of us are looking to optimize sports and academics. I also seriously doubt you actually know much about D3, but why would you I guess. Wash U roster is loaded. GA and ECNL members that could have played almost anywhere. One was on the Canadian National team for u17. But you wouldn't have a clue about that.

I dont get why people get so hung up on D1. A third of freshmen girls entered the portal. Want to guess how many did in D3?

But you enjoy the job prospects of a Coppin State or Arkansas Pine Bluff degree while the Canadian National Team member majors in data science at Wash U 🤣

As Judge Smails so appropriately put it, the world needs ditch diggers too.............

4 years vs 40 my friends.........

this is a soccer forum dummy. You are just deflecting. If your kid is smart enough to get into a academic school they are obviously going there for education and soccer is a bonus. Sorry D3 soccer isnt an accomplishment or flex. And likely you are paying for that expensive education.

I think any level of college soccer is an accomplishment. D1 only tunnel vision is not a smart choice.

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Anonymous wrote:
- The d1 vs d3 thing was all 😳

- This is a soccer thread & why we all come here. What this sub forum is not is one discussing education.

- With that said if you are playing at Arlington, Bethesda, Fairfax Union, MD United, NVA, Richmond United, VDA or VRSC it’s your goal & dream to play d1. Anything beneath that soccer wise is a bust. Players playing & spending less on ECNL RL, EDP, GA Aspire or NCSL are making d3 rosters without spending as much & traveling.

- One doesn’t get treated the same playing d1 as they d2 or d3.

- Strictly talking soccer and not academics.

Sorry but you strike me as Al Bundy/Uncle Rico type. Sports is life. Der.

Some of us are looking to optimize sports and academics. I also seriously doubt you actually know much about D3, but why would you I guess. Wash U roster is loaded. GA and ECNL members that could have played almost anywhere. One was on the Canadian National team for u17. But you wouldn't have a clue about that.

I dont get why people get so hung up on D1. A third of freshmen girls entered the portal. Want to guess how many did in D3?

But you enjoy the job prospects of a Coppin State or Arkansas Pine Bluff degree while the Canadian National Team member majors in data science at Wash U 🤣

As Judge Smails so appropriately put it, the world needs ditch diggers too.............

4 years vs 40 my friends.........

this is a soccer forum dummy. You are just deflecting. If your kid is smart enough to get into a academic school they are obviously going there for education and soccer is a bonus. Sorry D3 soccer isnt an accomplishment or flex. And likely you are paying for that expensive education.

+1 “sorry d3 soccer isn’t an accomplishment or flex”

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Anonymous wrote:
- The d1 vs d3 thing was all 😳

- This is a soccer thread & why we all come here. What this sub forum is not is one discussing education.

- With that said if you are playing at Arlington, Bethesda, Fairfax Union, MD United, NVA, Richmond United, VDA or VRSC it’s your goal & dream to play d1. Anything beneath that soccer wise is a bust. Players playing & spending less on ECNL RL, EDP, GA Aspire or NCSL are making d3 rosters without spending as much & traveling.

- One doesn’t get treated the same playing d1 as they d2 or d3.

- Strictly talking soccer and not academics.

Sorry but you strike me as Al Bundy/Uncle Rico type. Sports is life. Der.

Some of us are looking to optimize sports and academics. I also seriously doubt you actually know much about D3, but why would you I guess. Wash U roster is loaded. GA and ECNL members that could have played almost anywhere. One was on the Canadian National team for u17. But you wouldn't have a clue about that.

I dont get why people get so hung up on D1. A third of freshmen girls entered the portal. Want to guess how many did in D3?

But you enjoy the job prospects of a Coppin State or Arkansas Pine Bluff degree while the Canadian National Team member majors in data science at Wash U 🤣

As Judge Smails so appropriately put it, the world needs ditch diggers too.............

4 years vs 40 my friends.........

this is a soccer forum dummy. You are just deflecting. If your kid is smart enough to get into a academic school they are obviously going there for education and soccer is a bonus. Sorry D3 soccer isnt an accomplishment or flex. And likely you are paying for that expensive education.

+1 “sorry d3 soccer isn’t an accomplishment or flex”

Sorry, but scoring +1400 on SATs, never getting a B, AND playing D1 Ivy or DIII High Academic is an accomplishment.

Also, anyone who uses the word “flex” referring to playing D1 soccer tells me you are living through your kid and put higher value on soccer than an academics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
- The d1 vs d3 thing was all 😳

- This is a soccer thread & why we all come here. What this sub forum is not is one discussing education.

- With that said if you are playing at Arlington, Bethesda, Fairfax Union, MD United, NVA, Richmond United, VDA or VRSC it’s your goal & dream to play d1. Anything beneath that soccer wise is a bust. Players playing & spending less on ECNL RL, EDP, GA Aspire or NCSL are making d3 rosters without spending as much & traveling.

- One doesn’t get treated the same playing d1 as they d2 or d3.

- Strictly talking soccer and not academics.

Sorry but you strike me as Al Bundy/Uncle Rico type. Sports is life. Der.

Some of us are looking to optimize sports and academics. I also seriously doubt you actually know much about D3, but why would you I guess. Wash U roster is loaded. GA and ECNL members that could have played almost anywhere. One was on the Canadian National team for u17. But you wouldn't have a clue about that.

I dont get why people get so hung up on D1. A third of freshmen girls entered the portal. Want to guess how many did in D3?

But you enjoy the job prospects of a Coppin State or Arkansas Pine Bluff degree while the Canadian National Team member majors in data science at Wash U 🤣

As Judge Smails so appropriately put it, the world needs ditch diggers too.............

4 years vs 40 my friends.........

this is a soccer forum dummy. You are just deflecting. If your kid is smart enough to get into a academic school they are obviously going there for education and soccer is a bonus. Sorry D3 soccer isnt an accomplishment or flex. And likely you are paying for that expensive education.

??? You don't think playing D3 college soccer is an accomplishment? This is an absolutely asinine take.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
- The d1 vs d3 thing was all 😳

- This is a soccer thread & why we all come here. What this sub forum is not is one discussing education.

- With that said if you are playing at Arlington, Bethesda, Fairfax Union, MD United, NVA, Richmond United, VDA or VRSC it’s your goal & dream to play d1. Anything beneath that soccer wise is a bust. Players playing & spending less on ECNL RL, EDP, GA Aspire or NCSL are making d3 rosters without spending as much & traveling.

- One doesn’t get treated the same playing d1 as they d2 or d3.

- Strictly talking soccer and not academics.

Sorry but you strike me as Al Bundy/Uncle Rico type. Sports is life. Der.

Some of us are looking to optimize sports and academics. I also seriously doubt you actually know much about D3, but why would you I guess. Wash U roster is loaded. GA and ECNL members that could have played almost anywhere. One was on the Canadian National team for u17. But you wouldn't have a clue about that.

I dont get why people get so hung up on D1. A third of freshmen girls entered the portal. Want to guess how many did in D3?

But you enjoy the job prospects of a Coppin State or Arkansas Pine Bluff degree while the Canadian National Team member majors in data science at Wash U 🤣

As Judge Smails so appropriately put it, the world needs ditch diggers too.............

4 years vs 40 my friends.........

this is a soccer forum dummy. You are just deflecting. If your kid is smart enough to get into a academic school they are obviously going there for education and soccer is a bonus. Sorry D3 soccer isnt an accomplishment or flex. And likely you are paying for that expensive education.

??? You don't think playing D3 college soccer is an accomplishment? This is an absolutely asinine take.

d3 is absolutely an accomplishment

[Anonymous]

Its not, more of accomplishment getting into an elite academic school like Amherst or Carnegie Mellon. If soccer helped than more power to you! Playing soccer is totally secondary at these types of schools; that often struggle to fill a full roster each year becuase these girls know that they chose the academic route and soccer will be secondary at best after academics and pre-professional college campus opportunities. No shade in these commments just calling a spade a spade. If you're on a D3 roster of after this club soccer rat race, its a failure. if you can "fail" into Amherst then you DD is going to be just fine and you can ignore this opinion. D3 aint all that tho if we are only talking about soccer. Fortunately most people aren't only concerned with soccer so lets relax on this and let people be happy with their outcomes