DMV Girls Travel Hockey Clubs

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Anonymous wrote:It's only the "DMV" if youre black and uneducated. Drop it unless you want to be lumped in with them.

Gross. Please let us know what club you’re with so we can all steer clear.

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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

As someone with a 16U daughter who has plenty of experience in local girls hockey, the only warning I would give is that I generally hear very, very positive things about the directors of the girls programs across the DMV. We are lucky to have such a dedicated bunch across clubs. I have rarely (maybe never?) heard anything positive about the MYHA girls director. Take that for whatever it is worth.

He develops tough, aggressive players. There. Now you’ve heard something positive.

My daughter played MYHA at 8U. There were occasionally fun, all skill level jamborees for girls from all over the DMV and he would coach. Some of these teams were filled with 5 year old LTP players, some had travel players, but it was just a good fun time for everyone. On both of the jamborees we did he screamed at the players on our team and encouraged them to run up the score on other teams. Not just other good teams - run up the score on teams where the players looked like they had only been skating for a couple months.

Parents on other teams were visibly concerned for our girls based on how he acted. The more experienced parents on our team said that was just his style but I found it gross. It wasn't a league game, wasn't playoffs - it was a free event to encourage girls to play hockey. Hearing a grown man scream at 6, 7, and 8 year olds does not make anyone in the rink on either team want to play more hockey. We moved to Reston the next season and have never looked back.

I am shocked by this - we have heard nothing but good things about this person and our personal experience is that he is extremely positive; the girls absolutely adore him. Like many coaches he yells instructions, but he’s not in any way a mean person. There is a reason that girls program is so successful.

Anyway, Tri City and Howard also have good girls programs in Montgomery County.

I'm not OP but glad to hear you have had a positive experience with him because 99% I've heard about him are more in the "highly negative" category. I've never interacted with the guy before so zero personal experience but so much bad I figured where there was smoke there was fire.

Speaking of “negativity.” Maybe if you have no personal experience you should refrain from chiming in? Keep in mind the op is moving from Boston. Ever meet boston hockey people?

My daughter only played there one year but did a lot of his clinics and morning skates, mostly between 12-14, and loved him. I’ve always admired how hard their teams play and how difficult they are to beat, even when they don’t have the best players.

That said, the girls directors at tri city and st James are great as well. Reston too, but it’s a lower level of hockey.

Op - do you know where you want to live and where work will be? This thread took a detour into one particular person, but the dmv can horrible trying complete routine activities between 3 and 8 pm. If you could give us a little more info we may be able to help you learn from our mistakes.

So when you hear 100 people say someone isn't a great dude you are just supposed to keep quiet when someone asks? Like someone else said, if enough people tell me they got food poisoning at a restaurant I don't need to have gotten it myself to warn my friends and family to avoid it.

Sorry, there is no universe in which you’ve heard that opinion from even 20 people who have actually skated for him. I bet if you asked every girl on his team this past year 95 percent would express complete adoration. You clearly are from another club and are trying to disparage a good program.

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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

As someone with a 16U daughter who has plenty of experience in local girls hockey, the only warning I would give is that I generally hear very, very positive things about the directors of the girls programs across the DMV. We are lucky to have such a dedicated bunch across clubs. I have rarely (maybe never?) heard anything positive about the MYHA girls director. Take that for whatever it is worth.

He develops tough, aggressive players. There. Now you’ve heard something positive.

My daughter played MYHA at 8U. There were occasionally fun, all skill level jamborees for girls from all over the DMV and he would coach. Some of these teams were filled with 5 year old LTP players, some had travel players, but it was just a good fun time for everyone. On both of the jamborees we did he screamed at the players on our team and encouraged them to run up the score on other teams. Not just other good teams - run up the score on teams where the players looked like they had only been skating for a couple months.

Parents on other teams were visibly concerned for our girls based on how he acted. The more experienced parents on our team said that was just his style but I found it gross. It wasn't a league game, wasn't playoffs - it was a free event to encourage girls to play hockey. Hearing a grown man scream at 6, 7, and 8 year olds does not make anyone in the rink on either team want to play more hockey. We moved to Reston the next season and have never looked back.

I am shocked by this - we have heard nothing but good things about this person and our personal experience is that he is extremely positive; the girls absolutely adore him. Like many coaches he yells instructions, but he’s not in any way a mean person. There is a reason that girls program is so successful.

Anyway, Tri City and Howard also have good girls programs in Montgomery County.

I'm not OP but glad to hear you have had a positive experience with him because 99% I've heard about him are more in the "highly negative" category. I've never interacted with the guy before so zero personal experience but so much bad I figured where there was smoke there was fire.

Speaking of “negativity.” Maybe if you have no personal experience you should refrain from chiming in? Keep in mind the op is moving from Boston. Ever meet boston hockey people?

My daughter only played there one year but did a lot of his clinics and morning skates, mostly between 12-14, and loved him. I’ve always admired how hard their teams play and how difficult they are to beat, even when they don’t have the best players.

That said, the girls directors at tri city and st James are great as well. Reston too, but it’s a lower level of hockey.

Op - do you know where you want to live and where work will be? This thread took a detour into one particular person, but the dmv can horrible trying complete routine activities between 3 and 8 pm. If you could give us a little more info we may be able to help you learn from our mistakes.

So when you hear 100 people say someone isn't a great dude you are just supposed to keep quiet when someone asks? Like someone else said, if enough people tell me they got food poisoning at a restaurant I don't need to have gotten it myself to warn my friends and family to avoid it.

Sorry, there is no universe in which you’ve heard that opinion from even 20 people who have actually skated for him. I bet if you asked every girl on his team this past year 95 percent would express complete adoration. You clearly are from another club and are trying to disparage a good program.

Thanks more chiming in, Mr. B.

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I have no skin in the game here, but I was curious. Is it considered poor form or bad DCUM etiquette to name and site a source for someone/thing everyone is discussing? The alleged screaming MYHA Girls Hockey Director everybody seem to avoid naming is Mike Bazzone. This info. was easy obtained from a quick search.

[Anonymous]

Welcome to dmv girls hockey op! With only 1 aaa team and 3 competitive aa teams, by the time the girls complete 19u they will know all the other girls and will be on first name basis with the opposing coaches and hockey directors. Many of them will have played for multiple associations, done their camps, or played on their spring teams.

This time of year, we are playing each other for the 10th time of the season to decide who goes to nationals, so it can be a little tense.

Some of us view it as a community and dont hold grudges against the other clubs for some perceived infraction during 8u…or at least stay quiet about it. Others, like the few on a crusade here, view it as a famine mentality, gossip about the other players/coaches/directors, and view any success of another girl as an opportunity being taken away from their kid. It’s a shame, because living in the dmv and have 2 other competitive aa local teams is a blessing. Try being a girls hockey family in North Carolina or Florida.

Don’t let the tone of this thread discourage you. All 3 programs (stj, myha, tri city) are run by legit hockey people and have competitive teams.

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Anonymous wrote:Welcome to dmv girls hockey op! With only 1 aaa team and 3 competitive aa teams, by the time the girls complete 19u they will know all the other girls and will be on first name basis with the opposing coaches and hockey directors. Many of them will have played for multiple associations, done their camps, or played on their spring teams.

This time of year, we are playing each other for the 10th time of the season to decide who goes to nationals, so it can be a little tense.

Some of us view it as a community and dont hold grudges against the other clubs for some perceived infraction during 8u…or at least stay quiet about it. Others, like the few on a crusade here, view it as a famine mentality, gossip about the other players/coaches/directors, and view any success of another girl as an opportunity being taken away from their kid. It’s a shame, because living in the dmv and have 2 other competitive aa local teams is a blessing. Try being a girls hockey family in North Carolina or Florida.

Don’t let the tone of this thread discourage you. All 3 programs (stj, myha, tri city) are run by legit hockey people and have competitive teams.

I get the overall idea and tone of your message but after having read these I'm not getting a lot of "mine is the best, yours is the worst" mentality....they seem to all be saying "pretty much everyone is good except this one person". I would have expected some people to be talking bad about Reston or STJ or TCE or Potomac or any other girls director but it is almost universally just MYHA. I have no further insight or info, just my take as a person with absolutely no dogs in this fight.

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Anonymous wrote:Welcome to dmv girls hockey op! With only 1 aaa team and 3 competitive aa teams, by the time the girls complete 19u they will know all the other girls and will be on first name basis with the opposing coaches and hockey directors. Many of them will have played for multiple associations, done their camps, or played on their spring teams.

This time of year, we are playing each other for the 10th time of the season to decide who goes to nationals, so it can be a little tense.

Some of us view it as a community and dont hold grudges against the other clubs for some perceived infraction during 8u…or at least stay quiet about it. Others, like the few on a crusade here, view it as a famine mentality, gossip about the other players/coaches/directors, and view any success of another girl as an opportunity being taken away from their kid. It’s a shame, because living in the dmv and have 2 other competitive aa local teams is a blessing. Try being a girls hockey family in North Carolina or Florida.

Don’t let the tone of this thread discourage you. All 3 programs (stj, myha, tri city) are run by legit hockey people and have competitive teams.

I get the overall idea and tone of your message but after having read these I'm not getting a lot of "mine is the best, yours is the worst" mentality....they seem to all be saying "pretty much everyone is good except this one person". I would have expected some people to be talking bad about Reston or STJ or TCE or Potomac or any other girls director but it is almost universally just MYHA. I have no further insight or info, just my take as a person with absolutely no dogs in this fight.

I’ve met people who played for the current MYHA director when he was at Potomac and they raved about him too.

To the OP — the girls hockey community in the DMV is great and helped the PWHL get its biggest crowd ever a couple months ago. I hope you enjoy it here. May your commute to practice be short and may your trips to the capital clubhouse be minimal.

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At the ages OP mentioned, she should really look closely at Potomac. They have done very well (sort of dominating) the area teams in AGHF and CBHL the last two seasons. They have a very strong group of girls (particularly if the ones who played coed AA this year come back for 14U Girls).

There are a lot of great programs in the area.

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Anonymous wrote:At the ages OP mentioned, she should really look closely at Potomac. They have done very well (sort of dominating) the area teams in AGHF and CBHL the last two seasons. They have a very strong group of girls (particularly if the ones who played coed AA this year come back for 14U Girls).

There are a lot of great programs in the area.

I agree they had a strong 12U team this year - with the one caveat that they were a AA team who they kept putting in A leagues and tournaments (they should not have been in AGHF Platinum or CBHL Silver). Looking at their AGHF stats, a couple of players got most of the goals, so might not be a very balanced team.

For the younger daughter, the 10U team was quite weak and she would be playing with many of those players. For the older daughter, in the past many of the top players leave Potomac at 14U for more competitive programs. Not to say they will moving forward but they often do.

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St James 14/19, myha 16s on to nationals.

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Op- nationals is in boston area. If you’re a crazy hockey parent like we are swing by and catch a couple games…

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Shoot 19s only is in Boston, 14s are in mn and 16s in St. Louis.

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Anonymous wrote:At the ages OP mentioned, she should really look closely at Potomac. They have done very well (sort of dominating) the area teams in AGHF and CBHL the last two seasons. They have a very strong group of girls (particularly if the ones who played coed AA this year come back for 14U Girls).

There are a lot of great programs in the area.

I agree they had a strong 12U team this year - with the one caveat that they were a AA team who they kept putting in A leagues and tournaments (they should not have been in AGHF Platinum or CBHL Silver). Looking at their AGHF stats, a couple of players got most of the goals, so might not be a very balanced team.

For the younger daughter, the 10U team was quite weak and she would be playing with many of those players. For the older daughter, in the past many of the top players leave Potomac at 14U for more competitive programs. Not to say they will moving forward but they often do.

12U had two teams. One played in AGHF Platinum and the other played AGHF co-ed, CBHL upper A, and a lot of tournaments. Most of the upper team players were in their first year of 12U. Nearly all of them have worked with the girls hockey director since 6U.

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Anonymous wrote:At the ages OP mentioned, she should really look closely at Potomac. They have done very well (sort of dominating) the area teams in AGHF and CBHL the last two seasons. They have a very strong group of girls (particularly if the ones who played coed AA this year come back for 14U Girls).

There are a lot of great programs in the area.

I agree they had a strong 12U team this year - with the one caveat that they were a AA team who they kept putting in A leagues and tournaments (they should not have been in AGHF Platinum or CBHL Silver). Looking at their AGHF stats, a couple of players got most of the goals, so might not be a very balanced team.

For the younger daughter, the 10U team was quite weak and she would be playing with many of those players. For the older daughter, in the past many of the top players leave Potomac at 14U for more competitive programs. Not to say they will moving forward but they often do.

12U had two teams. One played in AGHF Platinum and the other played AGHF co-ed, CBHL upper A, and a lot of tournaments. Most of the upper team players were in their first year of 12U. Nearly all of them have worked with the girls hockey director since 6U.

The message you quoted was talking about Potomac, not MYHA.

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Wild that MedStar can’t field a decent girls program with all their AllHer bluster