Northern Va Soccer Travel Clubs Status & Rundown

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Anonymous wrote:What’s a non-troll opinion on Arlington county clubs?

You spend years buying into their system and as soon as you hit the U13 Academy level, roughly 60%-70% of the all Arlington teams are transfers from other teams.

Take that for what it is. If player development was so strong, no need to load teams with players not previously tied to programs.

It’s also a club dominated by parents who call to hector coaches for playing time. A pathetic approach, yet somehow works.

Replace Arlington with any other club name.

[Anonymous]

avoid syc specially 2010 boys they sucks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We would not recommend BRYC soccer club. Extremely toxic and subjective play environment for girls, with uncertified coaches including parents coaching travel teams that charge upwards of $3k for a season. Our experience has been extremely disappointing and disheartening. The coaches and teammates ostracized our daughter, minimized play time, blatantly favoring players including the coaches daughter. The most unprofessional group we have participated in a league with. One event that highlights this was a film watch at the house of the team manager. Upon pickup the house was full of men drinking and wondering the home seemingly unsupervised, and while preteen girls were there for this soccer event. Further, the entire top travel team in NCDL of U12 girls all left last season and now we understand the reason. Incredibly unfortunate to have had this experience and we would not want anyone else to fall into this situation. We do not recommend BRYC girls soccer to anyone.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We would not recommend BRYC soccer club. Extremely toxic and subjective play environment for girls, with uncertified coaches including parents coaching travel teams that charge upwards of $3k for a season. Our experience has been extremely disappointing and disheartening. The coaches and teammates ostracized our daughter, minimized play time, blatantly favoring players including the coaches daughter. The most unprofessional group we have participated in a league with. One event that highlights this was a film watch at the house of the team manager. Upon pickup the house was full of men drinking and wondering the home seemingly unsupervised, and while preteen girls were there for this soccer event. Further, the entire top travel team in NCDL of U12 girls all left last season and now we understand the reason. Incredibly unfortunate to have had this experience and we would not want anyone else to fall into this situation. We do not recommend BRYC girls soccer to anyone.

Ahhh yes, watch out for Clubs that bring on lots of Mom and Dad coaches...these parents start out by coaching in rec and either apply or are recruited by the club to transition into coaching in travel. They get paid a little money and their kids get to play for free...they are really incentivized to stick it out. They are so busy working, coaching and being a parent that they often don't have the bandwidth to setup a developmental style practice and scrimmage the kids a lot. Then, there is no way they coach their own kid in an unbiased way. A lot of coaches kids are great soccer players, but they will always be selected for the top team as all the coaches in the club know those kids and will always get selected for the top team at tryouts. We left a small club, that competes with BRYC a lot, in part because there were too many parent coaches (about 6) and there were issues that were going to fester or just not be corrected. One coaches kid just fouls everybody and the Coach won't address it.

While those issues are minor and they certainly are not the same thing as preteen girls being in a "house full of men drinking," having a parent coaches can lead to a situation where lines are blurred between Coach, athlete, parent and friend. Ask the DOC or TD if the club allows parent-coaches after the 1st year. I'm all for parent-coaches, just not their own kid's team after U9.

Alternative perspective- Ok experience what you would expect from a neighborhood club. It was satisfactory and organized for the most part. Most parents were nice people. Some wacky decisions at times especially as the season progressed as far as placements, playing time etc, other decisions Coaches were parents, no big deal they had/have a solid resume. But that is not an outlier relevant to other clubs. Nothing that would warrant putting them on blast from our perspective.. Just an ok thanks bye have a nice life would suffice. Best to move on and remember the positives. Would we recommend it? That depends on your kid and how they would fit in because the social component is a big factor there. Wasn’t a fit for our kid so we left. End of story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:avoid syc specially 2010 boys they sucks

You have to be the same person who posted that the syc 2010 sucks in multiple threads. Why is this age group suck so bad that you keep posting about them in multiple thread. Get it out of your system and possibly help other avoid the same issue you had.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:avoid syc specially 2010 boys they sucks

You have to be the same person who posted that the syc 2010 sucks in multiple threads. Why is this age group suck so bad that you keep posting about them in multiple thread. Get it out of your system and possibly help other avoid the same issue you had.

This how they react when their kids get cut or moved down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We would not recommend BRYC soccer club. Extremely toxic and subjective play environment for girls, with uncertified coaches including parents coaching travel teams that charge upwards of $3k for a season. Our experience has been extremely disappointing and disheartening. The coaches and teammates ostracized our daughter, minimized play time, blatantly favoring players including the coaches daughter. The most unprofessional group we have participated in a league with. One event that highlights this was a film watch at the house of the team manager. Upon pickup the house was full of men drinking and wondering the home seemingly unsupervised, and while preteen girls were there for this soccer event. Further, the entire top travel team in NCDL of U12 girls all left last season and now we understand the reason. Incredibly unfortunate to have had this experience and we would not want anyone else to fall into this situation. We do not recommend BRYC girls soccer to anyone.

Someone was digging through the archives to find this post

Axe to grind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We would not recommend BRYC soccer club. Extremely toxic and subjective play environment for girls, with uncertified coaches including parents coaching travel teams that charge upwards of $3k for a season. Our experience has been extremely disappointing and disheartening. The coaches and teammates ostracized our daughter, minimized play time, blatantly favoring players including the coaches daughter. The most unprofessional group we have participated in a league with. One event that highlights this was a film watch at the house of the team manager. Upon pickup the house was full of men drinking and wondering the home seemingly unsupervised, and while preteen girls were there for this soccer event. Further, the entire top travel team in NCDL of U12 girls all left last season and now we understand the reason. Incredibly unfortunate to have had this experience and we would not want anyone else to fall into this situation. We do not recommend BRYC girls soccer to anyone.

Wow. This is definitely not our experience with BRYC. I'm sorry that happened. We've had a great experience, supportive coaches, great parents.