The travel bar... would they make their high school team
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Anonymous
What HS is this? Loudoun has what, 4 clubs and 17 HS, PW has 4 clubs and 13 HS, Fairfax has under 10 clubs and 25 HS. 2 club years for varsity and 2 for JV. How does one HS have 50 kids from top teams try out? Most top travel teams have kids from 4, 5, 6 or more HSs. |
Anonymous
I’m guessing this is a MCPS school. |
Anonymous
| My DD made varsity all four years and had a lot of fun. |
Anonymous
School spirit. Lol. This is not how it is anymore. These kids don’t care about their school. Most of their friends are on social media from all over the region. The attitude towards a HS is much different than it was when we were kids. They simply don’t identify as a “______” in the same way. |
Anonymous
It may not be the same as when we were kids but it does still exist. Maybe not in your HS or for your kids, but doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist everywhere. In our part of Loudoun there are 4 HS just within a few miles of each other. Many of the kids know each other across schools because school boundaries are always shifting and some of the schools only opened recently. It makes for good rivalries. My kids have played both HS and travel. They like both for what they are. HS is more about fun. After school practices with your friends. No pressure from coaches to perform. HS is like a fun rec league. |
Anonymous
That is not reflective of a high bar. It is reflective of the quality of coaching and level of high school play. I've seen a few that got D1 scholarships not make their high school team. True. |
Anonymous
^and by that I mean 'poor' quality You should see some who made the team vs those that got cut. It's comical. |
Anonymous
All HS soccer is political. I've seen it in private and public. |
Anonymous
It's the same with boys' private in the DMV. Some kids that literally just boot the ball down the field to make a field goal each time (yards above the net) and can't even stand on their feet praised upon praised. And then a very talented kid who never looses possession and is making an impact screamed at the entire game by the Coach. Meanwhile, dipshits that literally lose the ball every play get praised. It's an outer body of experience. We had no choice to laugh about it. We also have an unusual number of "package deals" on our high school squads: twins and triplets. Some not good at all or only one of them is decent. I guess they don't want to break them up. Who knows? |
Anonymous
Yup, lots are lazy coaches just looking for size over ability, sad but true. |
Anonymous
My kid has been in contact with one of the top D1 programs in the country and barely played and I seriously question (seeing the favorites and last year's selections) that he will make it next year. Nepotism is real. |
Anonymous
Political if kids don’t make the team |
Anonymous
Not sure that it is political but the coaches generally are not good soccer coaches and can only coach to the lowest common denominator style wise so they often select those who are the lowest common denominators as players. If they spend more time at tryouts running sprints than scrimmages your kid is in for a very special time. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Our team had the players to play good soccer, but it was a large roster and not once did they use the best combo. They could have controlled right down the midfield but never had the smartest most finessed players together on the field at the same time. A good coach would have seen that because the very brief time these kids were on the field together the play was demonstratively so much better. There are some games they could have won, but never took some of these kids off the bench while they kept getting crushed, beaten and making egregious errors—the kind most kids stopped making in early rec soccer. |