Private School Soccer Thread

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most boring subject ever: parents talking about their kid's performance in some rando weekend club soccer tournament. Worse than grown men describing their recent golf game stroke by stroke.

Hope your kid play soccer in college, if so I will be happy to listen to stories about the college team. In the meantime, do you have any kids that are artistic? Have the kids read any good books lately?

There are plenty of athletes who are artistic and literate. They are not mutually exclusive qualities. IMO, I think sports and arts are both essential and apparently many other parents think so as well.

Good. If your club soccer-playing kid is active in the arts please FOR THE LOVE OF GOD only talk about their artistic accomplishments.

A non-exclusive list of topics I prefer to listen to rather than hearing parents drone on about their child's club soccer team:

1. Progress of their home renovations;
2. Their recent dental work;
3. Their successes or challenges at house-training the new pet;
4. Their new hot yoga class (if female) or cross-fit class (if male);
5. Their theories on why their IT band is hurting;
6. Their views on the proposed new development in their neighborhood;
7. Their brilliant acquisition of a new purse at a bargain price;
8. How having their golf clubs re-gripped has worked out for them;
9. Their views on how much homework is appropriate for their child* (*only if club soccer tournaments are not mentioned as a reason child is anxious about work).

If you are going to pile on the snark to mask your insecurities, at least be more clever about it. Fact is, sports success portends life success. Wrap up that sports success over academic, artistic and other success and you have a real leader.

Translated: "I talk about my kid's club soccer all the time and everyone is really interested." LOL, keep deluding yourself. Nobody is criticizing sports, just delusional suburban parents boring other people with stories of their kid's pay-for-play soccer team and write-another-check club tournament.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most boring subject ever: parents talking about their kid's performance in some rando weekend club soccer tournament. Worse than grown men describing their recent golf game stroke by stroke.

Hope your kid play soccer in college, if so I will be happy to listen to stories about the college team. In the meantime, do you have any kids that are artistic? Have the kids read any good books lately?

There are plenty of athletes who are artistic and literate. They are not mutually exclusive qualities. IMO, I think sports and arts are both essential and apparently many other parents think so as well.

Good. If your club soccer-playing kid is active in the arts please FOR THE LOVE OF GOD only talk about their artistic accomplishments.

A non-exclusive list of topics I prefer to listen to rather than hearing parents drone on about their child's club soccer team:

1. Progress of their home renovations;
2. Their recent dental work;
3. Their successes or challenges at house-training the new pet;
4. Their new hot yoga class (if female) or cross-fit class (if male);
5. Their theories on why their IT band is hurting;
6. Their views on the proposed new development in their neighborhood;
7. Their brilliant acquisition of a new purse at a bargain price;
8. How having their golf clubs re-gripped has worked out for them;
9. Their views on how much homework is appropriate for their child* (*only if club soccer tournaments are not mentioned as a reason child is anxious about work).

If you are going to pile on the snark to mask your insecurities, at least be more clever about it. Fact is, sports success portends life success. Wrap up that sports success over academic, artistic and other success and you have a real leader.

Translated: "I talk about my kid's club soccer all the time and everyone is really interested." LOL, keep deluding yourself. Nobody is criticizing sports, just delusional suburban parents boring other people with stories of their kid's pay-for-play soccer team and write-another-check club tournament.

So, please tell us what brings you to read and comment on a thread that is specifically about youth soccer? I'm so confused by your presence here.

[Anonymous]

^ This x1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most boring subject ever: parents talking about their kid's performance in some rando weekend club soccer tournament. Worse than grown men describing their recent golf game stroke by stroke.

Hope your kid play soccer in college, if so I will be happy to listen to stories about the college team. In the meantime, do you have any kids that are artistic? Have the kids read any good books lately?

There are plenty of athletes who are artistic and literate. They are not mutually exclusive qualities. IMO, I think sports and arts are both essential and apparently many other parents think so as well.

Good. If your club soccer-playing kid is active in the arts please FOR THE LOVE OF GOD only talk about their artistic accomplishments.

A non-exclusive list of topics I prefer to listen to rather than hearing parents drone on about their child's club soccer team:

1. Progress of their home renovations;
2. Their recent dental work;
3. Their successes or challenges at house-training the new pet;
4. Their new hot yoga class (if female) or cross-fit class (if male);
5. Their theories on why their IT band is hurting;
6. Their views on the proposed new development in their neighborhood;
7. Their brilliant acquisition of a new purse at a bargain price;
8. How having their golf clubs re-gripped has worked out for them;
9. Their views on how much homework is appropriate for their child* (*only if club soccer tournaments are not mentioned as a reason child is anxious about work).

If you are going to pile on the snark to mask your insecurities, at least be more clever about it. Fact is, sports success portends life success. Wrap up that sports success over academic, artistic and other success and you have a real leader.

In other words, your nerdy non-athletic kid will always be, well, nerdy. Maybe a doctor or a lawyer or otherwise reasonably successful one day. But still a nerd. You need the confidence, leadership and everything else that goes with athletic success to be a true leader in life.

Nice modeling. Were you trying to channel the Alpha Beta frat bros in "Revenge of the Nerds?" Apparently your own experience in sports did not include respect for others? What an unpleasant attitude you have -- defensive and mean is not a winning combination.

(And no, I'm not a sports hater or a "nerd" –- four years of a Division I sport.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most boring subject ever: parents talking about their kid's performance in some rando weekend club soccer tournament. Worse than grown men describing their recent golf game stroke by stroke.

Hope your kid play soccer in college, if so I will be happy to listen to stories about the college team. In the meantime, do you have any kids that are artistic? Have the kids read any good books lately?

There are plenty of athletes who are artistic and literate. They are not mutually exclusive qualities. IMO, I think sports and arts are both essential and apparently many other parents think so as well.

Good. If your club soccer-playing kid is active in the arts please FOR THE LOVE OF GOD only talk about their artistic accomplishments.

A non-exclusive list of topics I prefer to listen to rather than hearing parents drone on about their child's club soccer team:

1. Progress of their home renovations;
2. Their recent dental work;
3. Their successes or challenges at house-training the new pet;
4. Their new hot yoga class (if female) or cross-fit class (if male);
5. Their theories on why their IT band is hurting;
6. Their views on the proposed new development in their neighborhood;
7. Their brilliant acquisition of a new purse at a bargain price;
8. How having their golf clubs re-gripped has worked out for them;
9. Their views on how much homework is appropriate for their child* (*only if club soccer tournaments are not mentioned as a reason child is anxious about work).

If you are going to pile on the snark to mask your insecurities, at least be more clever about it. Fact is, sports success portends life success. Wrap up that sports success over academic, artistic and other success and you have a real leader.

Translated: "I talk about my kid's club soccer all the time and everyone is really interested." LOL, keep deluding yourself. Nobody is criticizing sports, just delusional suburban parents boring other people with stories of their kid's pay-for-play soccer team and write-another-check club tournament.

So, please tell us what brings you to read and comment on a thread that is specifically about youth soccer? I'm so confused by your presence here.

Technically, isn't this a thread about "private school soccer" as opposed to "youth soccer"? There are other threads for general athletics discussions, I believe.

[Anonymous]

IAC soccer tournament:
#2 Landon vs. #3 Prep
#1 St. Albans vs. #4 (?) Bullis (or was Bullis a 5 seed?)

ISL tournament starts on Wed. I believe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IAC soccer tournament:
#2 Landon vs. #3 Prep
#1 St. Albans vs. #4 (?) Bullis (or was Bullis a 5 seed?)

ISL tournament starts on Wed. I believe.

Landon and STA advance to IAC tournament final. Should be a good game; they split during the regular season.

[Anonymous]

yes ISL AA tournament starts today. here are seeds:
1. Bullis
2. Potomac
3. Visitation
4. Flint Hill
5. NCS
6. Stone Ridge
7. Sidwell
8. Georgetown Day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IAC soccer tournament:
#2 Landon vs. #3 Prep
#1 St. Albans vs. #4 (?) Bullis (or was Bullis a 5 seed?)

ISL tournament starts on Wed. I believe.

Landon and STA advance to IAC tournament final. Should be a good game; they split during the regular season.

So happy that Landon is playing in a tournament final that does not include a stick! Go Bears!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IAC soccer tournament:
#2 Landon vs. #3 Prep
#1 St. Albans vs. #4 (?) Bullis (or was Bullis a 5 seed?)

ISL tournament starts on Wed. I believe.

Landon and STA advance to IAC tournament final. Should be a good game; they split during the regular season.

So happy that Landon is playing in a tournament final that does not include a stick! Go Bears!!

Good game but Landon on the short end -- St. Albans won 2-0.

[Anonymous]

To parents of talented soccer players out there, is the fact that St Albans has a winning soccer team several years running really what is attracting you to the school? What I'm trying to gauge is whether the back to back to back top finishes feeds on itself (success breeds success), or will the school see a return to less rarefied status in the next few years as the departure 2 years ago of the AD, who as luck would have it was also the Head Soccer Coach, depletes the overall incoming talent pool?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most boring subject ever: parents talking about their kid's performance in some rando weekend club soccer tournament. Worse than grown men describing their recent golf game stroke by stroke.

Hope your kid play soccer in college, if so I will be happy to listen to stories about the college team. In the meantime, do you have any kids that are artistic? Have the kids read any good books lately?

There are plenty of athletes who are artistic and literate. They are not mutually exclusive qualities. IMO, I think sports and arts are both essential and apparently many other parents think so as well.

Good. If your club soccer-playing kid is active in the arts please FOR THE LOVE OF GOD only talk about their artistic accomplishments.

A non-exclusive list of topics I prefer to listen to rather than hearing parents drone on about their child's club soccer team:

1. Progress of their home renovations;
2. Their recent dental work;
3. Their successes or challenges at house-training the new pet;
4. Their new hot yoga class (if female) or cross-fit class (if male);
5. Their theories on why their IT band is hurting;
6. Their views on the proposed new development in their neighborhood;
7. Their brilliant acquisition of a new purse at a bargain price;
8. How having their golf clubs re-gripped has worked out for them;
9. Their views on how much homework is appropriate for their child* (*only if club soccer tournaments are not mentioned as a reason child is anxious about work).

If you are going to pile on the snark to mask your insecurities, at least be more clever about it. Fact is, sports success portends life success. Wrap up that sports success over academic, artistic and other success and you have a real leader.

In other words, your nerdy non-athletic kid will always be, well, nerdy. Maybe a doctor or a lawyer or otherwise reasonably successful one day. But still a nerd. You need the confidence, leadership and everything else that goes with athletic success to be a true leader in life.

I don't know, I think the following did quite well without athletic achievement:

- Michael Bloomberg
- Warren Buffet
- Bill Gates
- Mark Zuckerberg


.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To parents of talented soccer players out there, is the fact that St Albans has a winning soccer team several years running really what is attracting you to the school? What I'm trying to gauge is whether the back to back to back top finishes feeds on itself (success breeds success), or will the school see a return to less rarefied status in the next few years as the departure 2 years ago of the AD, who as luck would have it was also the Head Soccer Coach, depletes the overall incoming talent pool?

Remember that the best soccer players can't even play high school soccer because they are barred by the Academy club program from doing that. So I am not really sure how much soccer is playing into peoples school choices, since by definition the best soccer players won't be able to play for the school. To turn it around, I don't even know how any school could try to attract soccer talent that is good but not too good, given that Academy status would not be known yet by the time of School admissions.

The fact that the strongest high school players don't play high school soccer may be part of why there is less excitement seemingly about high school soccer rivalries than there could be, given the overall interest in the game in this generation and in this area. Imagine a similar phenomenon for high school basketball or lacrosse and there would probably also be somewhat of a diminution in interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IAC soccer tournament:
#2 Landon vs. #3 Prep
#1 St. Albans vs. #4 (?) Bullis (or was Bullis a 5 seed?)

ISL tournament starts on Wed. I believe.

Landon and STA advance to IAC tournament final. Should be a good game; they split during the regular season.

So happy that Landon is playing in a tournament final that does not include a stick! Go Bears!!

Good game but Landon on the short end -- St. Albans won 2-0.

Landon may have had fewer points on the scoreboard, but that game was a win for everyone. The programs, which are often overshadowed by the lacrosse and other teams, the students and extended school communities, high school soccer writ large, the cheering squads (referred to in the WaPo article), did I leave anyone out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IAC soccer tournament:
#2 Landon vs. #3 Prep
#1 St. Albans vs. #4 (?) Bullis (or was Bullis a 5 seed?)

ISL tournament starts on Wed. I believe.

Landon and STA advance to IAC tournament final. Should be a good game; they split during the regular season.

So happy that Landon is playing in a tournament final that does not include a stick! Go Bears!!

Good game but Landon on the short end -- St. Albans won 2-0.

Landon may have had fewer points on the scoreboard, but that game was a win for everyone. The programs, which are often overshadowed by the lacrosse and other teams, the students and extended school communities, high school soccer writ large, the cheering squads (referred to in the WaPo article), did I leave anyone out?

I thought STA boys weren't supposed to like Landon boys and vice versa. Didn't seem that way. Lot of good natured ribbing, to be sure, but it all looked they enjoyed the experience, and looking at them, you couldn't really tell the difference -- all looked like cut outs from the Vineyard Vines catalogs.