Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All, I am sorry if this may derail this conversation but I will be moving to the Fort Belvoir area in June 2017 to live there for the next 4-5 years. My daughters was born April 2005 and currently plays in the Frankfurt D- Gruppenliga (04- 05) for one of the more successful clubs. She was also selected, as an American, to participate in the German Selects process to play for her local regional select team. I am trying to find a team for her to continue to grow. What clubs should I be looking at? Generally, when are tryouts? Any advice would be extremely helpful.

For proximity, you'd want to look at LMVSC and Alexandria assuming you live near Belvoir. I'd also look at PWSI and BRYC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All, I am sorry if this may derail this conversation but I will be moving to the Fort Belvoir area in June 2017 to live there for the next 4-5 years. My daughters was born April 2005 and currently plays in the Frankfurt D- Gruppenliga (04- 05) for one of the more successful clubs. She was also selected, as an American, to participate in the German Selects process to play for her local regional select team. I am trying to find a team for her to continue to grow. What clubs should I be looking at? Generally, when are tryouts? Any advice would be extremely helpful.

For proximity, you'd want to look at LMVSC and Alexandria assuming you live near Belvoir. I'd also look at PWSI and BRYC.

It sounds like she is playing at a high level already and you want her to continue at a high level. She's rising U13, so proximity gets thrown out the window. PWSI and BRYC will be your best options if you're willing to travel a bit to get the quality she's used to. However, traffic to PWSI will be awful (you'd be headed south along I-95 during rush hour). I would look at BRYC, but suggest you reach out now especially since you won't arrive until June and will miss all the formal tryouts. If you are planning to be in the area at all between now and then, find out if you can attend a couple training sessions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All, I am sorry if this may derail this conversation but I will be moving to the Fort Belvoir area in June 2017 to live there for the next 4-5 years. My daughters was born April 2005 and currently plays in the Frankfurt D- Gruppenliga (04- 05) for one of the more successful clubs. She was also selected, as an American, to participate in the German Selects process to play for her local regional select team. I am trying to find a team for her to continue to grow. What clubs should I be looking at? Generally, when are tryouts? Any advice would be extremely helpful.

For proximity, you'd want to look at LMVSC and Alexandria assuming you live near Belvoir. I'd also look at PWSI and BRYC.

It sounds like she is playing at a high level already and you want her to continue at a high level. She's rising U13, so proximity gets thrown out the window. PWSI and BRYC will be your best options if you're willing to travel a bit to get the quality she's used to. However, traffic to PWSI will be awful (you'd be headed south along I-95 during rush hour). I would look at BRYC, but suggest you reach out now especially since you won't arrive until June and will miss all the formal tryouts. If you are planning to be in the area at all between now and then, find out if you can attend a couple training sessions.

We live in the same area and would absolutely go with BRYC as a first choice. It would be about a 20-25 minute drive to BRYC practices at Robinson HS, and you cannot do better than BRYC for quality as they are going ECNL this year.
Getting to PWSI could take you an hour or more in the early evening.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the advice. I did get out to see BRYC and LMVSC a couple of years ago so I was already leaning towards BRYC. But it is good to hear that my early assessment was probably accurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All, I am sorry if this may derail this conversation but I will be moving to the Fort Belvoir area in June 2017 to live there for the next 4-5 years. My daughters was born April 2005 and currently plays in the Frankfurt D- Gruppenliga (04- 05) for one of the more successful clubs. She was also selected, as an American, to participate in the German Selects process to play for her local regional select team. I am trying to find a team for her to continue to grow. What clubs should I be looking at? Generally, when are tryouts? Any advice would be extremely helpful.

For proximity, you'd want to look at LMVSC and Alexandria assuming you live near Belvoir. I'd also look at PWSI and BRYC.

It sounds like she is playing at a high level already and you want her to continue at a high level. She's rising U13, so proximity gets thrown out the window. PWSI and BRYC will be your best options if you're willing to travel a bit to get the quality she's used to. However, traffic to PWSI will be awful (you'd be headed south along I-95 during rush hour). I would look at BRYC, but suggest you reach out now especially since you won't arrive until June and will miss all the formal tryouts. If you are planning to be in the area at all between now and then, find out if you can attend a couple training sessions.

We live in the same area and would absolutely go with BRYC as a first choice. It would be about a 20-25 minute drive to BRYC practices at Robinson HS, and you cannot do better than BRYC for quality as they are going ECNL this year.
Getting to PWSI could take you an hour or more in the early evening.

I'm in that area also. It's an easy drive to get to BRYC.

[Anonymous]

Good to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The spirit tryouts were weaker than VDA

The VDA tryouts were not really a high level so if that helps

The Spirit tryouts are a rolling tryout. Kids who have gotten offers will not be at later tryouts. So it will be hard to gauge the quality of their future teams by observing a single tryout.

Just saying

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public service announcement - NCSL divisions for spring have been posted.

At the U9/U10 levels, how do they determine who is in which division?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public service announcement - NCSL divisions for spring have been posted.

At the U9/U10 levels, how do they determine who is in which division?

After I asked, I went and saw on the website that it is geographical. However, it sure doesn't look geographical to me. U9 Division T has mostly DC and MD teams, but also has Shenandoah? Why wouldn't Calvert and DCST be in this group? Division C is huge and T is small. I can't see the logic.

[Anonymous]

if nova soccer is so competitive and crazy, how did central pa produce the best american footballer ever?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if nova soccer is so competitive and crazy, how did central pa produce the best american footballer ever?

Mia Hamm? She played at BRYC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if nova soccer is so competitive and crazy, how did central pa produce the best american footballer ever?

His mother and father both played soccer for George Mason University (NoVA) here in Fairfax.

Pulisic spent some time living in England as a youth where he played pick-up a lot. His dad's friends from MLSI (pro indoor) helped with his soccer upbringing. He also spent time playing with the Michigan Rush when his dad worked in Detroit.

Very grounded family that didn't over-train or let him guest in too many showcase tournaments. He's a class act with a very strong work ethic.

His cousin, Will, raised in Richmond, VA is a USMNT U17 player. He has joined him at Dortmund as a goal keeper. He postponed Duke University.

This was really about the family and how they trained and raised him. They would not be fans of what goes on at a lot of the clubs around here.

[Anonymous]

^^and of course, I left out,,it goes unsaid that there was tons of natural talent and skill to start with.

[Anonymous]

Without his parents--ahats in this area would have fucked him up. First off, he was teeny tiny as a kid. That alone would have landed him on the lowest team in the age group at 7/8. Nobody would bother to give him a real look from then on. Jimmy with the loud douche parents would be touted as the next Messi and Club star while young Christian languished in the ODSL. He probably would have quit the sport by 13 out of sheer frustration and the US would have lost one of their best players of all time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if nova soccer is so competitive and crazy, how did central pa produce the best american footballer ever?

Mia Hamm? She played at BRYC

I'm not seeing anything saying Mia Hamm is a product of BRYC. She played at Lake Braddock HS for one year and looks like lived most of her life in Texas moving around as an Air Force brat.