Valor

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well the gold and white teams always practice together so it makes sense.

So does silver and black and you don't see them posted all over the place together. 😉

What postings are you all talking about? On Valor's social media? Are there really that many posts of girls' team social events on there? I have seen a few but never paid much attention. I know the moms of one of the younger age groups have definitely coordinated age group wide events. We are not so organized over on the boys side! Our teams don't practice together as much either. Sometimes, but far from always.

Yes on social media and I know families there. It's a circle jerk of forced 'we all are in this together! Go valor!!!!' sucking up from white team parents trying to bump up in favor and team. It worked with a girl last year so it's extra bad this year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well the gold and white teams always practice together so it makes sense.

Is this true across the age groups?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is their girls' program that much worse than the boys'? I know people signing up for tryouts but like all clubs, they normally are much more talented at one or the other.

2011 girls team is great however their coach and I am sure some players are leaving to syc. That coach was probably the best coach they had on staff. I think the younger coaches are great but imo they value their boy teams over the girls. So there are some stand out years for both boys and girls but girls are definitely not respected as the boys are.

Interesting. Have a boy w Valor (year 3 so from the start) and I’ve always felt the girls get way more attention and have a lot more team activities etc than the boys!

That's moms trying to do social engineering and curry favor with the coaches by planning "fun".

thats so cringe. Like ur kid has to execute. Being the team cupcake lasertag party planner doesn’t mean a thing if the kiddo doesn’t meet expectations

[Anonymous]

50 teams! Wow. No wonder there are so many complaints. Its like a soccer factory.

[Anonymous]

Valor is a mid-size club. If they have 50 teams that’s like half of what Loudoun, Arlington, McLean and several other clubs have. Loudoun and Arlington have more than 50 NCSL teams, not to mention the teams in ECRL and ECNL.

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Loudoun and Arlington are selecting kids from entire counties, though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well the gold and white teams always practice together so it makes sense.

Is this true across the age groups?

I haven't seen the younger boys practice together.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loudoun and Arlington are selecting kids from entire counties, though.

And neighboring ones at that. The player pool is massive.... yet they teams don't overly dominate, which shows $$$ and connections are more important than talent there.

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What are you talking about? Do you even have a younger player at Valor, because that just is simply untrue. The U9 and U10 boys and girls all practice at the same field every session. They are mixed up for their Academy training and then practice by team depending on the night of the week. The coaches see all of the kids. The U11 boys train together and so do the U12 boys, same thing- the Academy sessions and then their team sessions. I am a manager and I can see the field break down team by team every season when the club sends it out. Even older teams are on the same fields, maybe not for every practice but for some of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are you talking about? Do you even have a younger player at Valor, because that just is simply untrue. The U9 and U10 boys and girls all practice at the same field every session. They are mixed up for their Academy training and then practice by team depending on the night of the week. The coaches see all of the kids. The U11 boys train together and so do the U12 boys, same thing- the Academy sessions and then their team sessions. I am a manager and I can see the field break down team by team every season when the club sends it out. Even older teams are on the same fields, maybe not for every practice but for some of them.

Same field does not mean together.

Perhaps Valor should have more transparency and publicly list the practices for the teams. Would also show possible lack of field space.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are you talking about? Do you even have a younger player at Valor, because that just is simply untrue. The U9 and U10 boys and girls all practice at the same field every session. They are mixed up for their Academy training and then practice by team depending on the night of the week. The coaches see all of the kids. The U11 boys train together and so do the U12 boys, same thing- the Academy sessions and then their team sessions. I am a manager and I can see the field break down team by team every season when the club sends it out. Even older teams are on the same fields, maybe not for every practice but for some of them.

Same field does not mean together.

Perhaps Valor should have more transparency and publicly list the practices for the teams. Would also show possible lack of field space.

No skin in this game, otherwise just pointing out that most counties/cities don't have fields allocated FOR NEXT FALL. We just got our spring assignments and permits a couple weeks ago

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are you talking about? Do you even have a younger player at Valor, because that just is simply untrue. The U9 and U10 boys and girls all practice at the same field every session. They are mixed up for their Academy training and then practice by team depending on the night of the week. The coaches see all of the kids. The U11 boys train together and so do the U12 boys, same thing- the Academy sessions and then their team sessions. I am a manager and I can see the field break down team by team every season when the club sends it out. Even older teams are on the same fields, maybe not for every practice but for some of them.

Same field does not mean together.

Perhaps Valor should have more transparency and publicly list the practices for the teams. Would also show possible lack of field space.

No skin in this game, otherwise just pointing out that most counties/cities don't have fields allocated FOR NEXT FALL. We just got our spring assignments and permits a couple weeks ago

Makes sense. Hard to allocate fields when number of teams is unknown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are you talking about? Do you even have a younger player at Valor, because that just is simply untrue. The U9 and U10 boys and girls all practice at the same field every session. They are mixed up for their Academy training and then practice by team depending on the night of the week. The coaches see all of the kids. The U11 boys train together and so do the U12 boys, same thing- the Academy sessions and then their team sessions. I am a manager and I can see the field break down team by team every season when the club sends it out. Even older teams are on the same fields, maybe not for every practice but for some of them.

Same field does not mean together.

Perhaps Valor should have more transparency and publicly list the practices for the teams. Would also show possible lack of field space.

Does any club publicly list practice times/locations? I don't know who the PP is responding to, but the U9 and U10 boys are not all practicing at the same time. Their practices are held back to back on the same nights. If one age group has the earlier time slot, the other has the later one and vice versa. I have lost track of what the girls are doing. It does seem like they do more combining of teams at practices, or maybe there just aren't as many teams. The only time field space is a real issue is when CYA rec starts back up and takes up some of the fields at the same time. I wish they would figure out something else for that. I have another kid who plays rec and I don't think their practice should eat into travel team field space. They are fine on whatever nearby school field.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are you talking about? Do you even have a younger player at Valor, because that just is simply untrue. The U9 and U10 boys and girls all practice at the same field every session. They are mixed up for their Academy training and then practice by team depending on the night of the week. The coaches see all of the kids. The U11 boys train together and so do the U12 boys, same thing- the Academy sessions and then their team sessions. I am a manager and I can see the field break down team by team every season when the club sends it out. Even older teams are on the same fields, maybe not for every practice but for some of them.

Same field does not mean together.

Perhaps Valor should have more transparency and publicly list the practices for the teams. Would also show possible lack of field space.

Does any club publicly list practice times/locations? I don't know who the PP is responding to, but the U9 and U10 boys are not all practicing at the same time. Their practices are held back to back on the same nights. If one age group has the earlier time slot, the other has the later one and vice versa. I have lost track of what the girls are doing. It does seem like they do more combining of teams at practices, or maybe there just aren't as many teams. The only time field space is a real issue is when CYA rec starts back up and takes up some of the fields at the same time. I wish they would figure out something else for that. I have another kid who plays rec and I don't think their practice should eat into travel team field space. They are fine on whatever nearby school field.

I'm going they are just trolling/throwing out assumptions. They definitely do not mix all the teams anymore than any other multi team age group clubs. Even full age group 'technical training' is not actually comingled. It's not as bad as some other clubs; but your team is pretty much the only ones you are practicing with. Scrimmaging at the end of practice is not practicing together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are you talking about? Do you even have a younger player at Valor, because that just is simply untrue. The U9 and U10 boys and girls all practice at the same field every session. They are mixed up for their Academy training and then practice by team depending on the night of the week. The coaches see all of the kids. The U11 boys train together and so do the U12 boys, same thing- the Academy sessions and then their team sessions. I am a manager and I can see the field break down team by team every season when the club sends it out. Even older teams are on the same fields, maybe not for every practice but for some of them.

Same field does not mean together.

Perhaps Valor should have more transparency and publicly list the practices for the teams. Would also show possible lack of field space.

Does any club publicly list practice times/locations? I don't know who the PP is responding to, but the U9 and U10 boys are not all practicing at the same time. Their practices are held back to back on the same nights. If one age group has the earlier time slot, the other has the later one and vice versa. I have lost track of what the girls are doing. It does seem like they do more combining of teams at practices, or maybe there just aren't as many teams. The only time field space is a real issue is when CYA rec starts back up and takes up some of the fields at the same time. I wish they would figure out something else for that. I have another kid who plays rec and I don't think their practice should eat into travel team field space. They are fine on whatever nearby school field.

I'm going they are just trolling/throwing out assumptions. They definitely do not mix all the teams anymore than any other multi team age group clubs. Even full age group 'technical training' is not actually comingled. It's not as bad as some other clubs; but your team is pretty much the only ones you are practicing with. Scrimmaging at the end of practice is not practicing together.

I've heard that BRYC (at least for the younger boys) has their top 3 teams all training together every practice, and the coaches decide who will play for which team (first/second/third) before the game each week. Maybe the teams are fairly stable in reality, with only a couple kids being shuffled around. But it sounds hard on the kids and as a parent I would hate not having a set game schedule in advance.