2025 Girls Lax WCAC ISL Outlook

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The continued narratives suggesting that somehow SJC and Potomac, which both had great seasons, could have been even better if they just played their "depth," are transparently self-serving.
We get it. Your daughter doesn't play for a top club, but is a good athlete, and you think she should get more PT. "Coach only plays her favorites". She has 12 favorites?? Plus the subs she does make? Come on.
The reality is that there are only two DC-area teams with true "depth": Good Counsel and Stone Ridge.
Bottom line, the Potomac and SJC coaches, around the game their whole lives, accomplished college athletes, and awesome people--who see these girls every day in pratice--have much better judgment on who can help on the field than a biased parent.

+1

I think parents need to get a grip and stop attacking coaches on an anonymous message board.

Then maybe the coach could stop "attacking" our kids on the sidelines and in the hallways when complaining to their family members who also work in the school about players and their parents for many other students to hear.

To be fair - SJC parents are nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter’s team played Potomac this year and they were clearly a good team with some great players but they also clearly lacked depth. I believe their play improved as the season progressed which is usually an indicator of decent coaching.

No, they got worse. The lack of good coaching really starting showing up in the last part of season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter’s team played Potomac this year and they were clearly a good team with some great players but they also clearly lacked depth. I believe their play improved as the season progressed which is usually an indicator of decent coaching.

No, they got worse. The lack of good coaching really starting showing up in the last part of season.

You clearly have an axe to grind with the Potomac HC or the coaching staff in general.

Potomac had a solid season. Losing to STAB in the final minute in the VISAA semi-finals (who ended up being the State Champion) is nothing to get your panties in a bunch over. As for ISL league play, I don't recall anyone on here really predicting the Panthers were going to dethrone the traditional juggernauts SR or Visi.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter’s team played Potomac this year and they were clearly a good team with some great players but they also clearly lacked depth. I believe their play improved as the season progressed which is usually an indicator of decent coaching.

No, they got worse. The lack of good coaching really starting showing up in the last part of season.

You clearly have an axe to grind with the Potomac HC or the coaching staff in general.

Potomac had a solid season. Losing to STAB in the final minute in the VISAA semi-finals (who ended up being the State Champion) is nothing to get your panties in a bunch over. As for ISL league play, I don't recall anyone on here really predicting the Panthers were going to dethrone the traditional juggernauts SR or Visi.

No doubt. Having watched Potomac for a few years and the players in the program outside of school on other teams, it seems to me the team is reasonably coached. I do think you can question where certain players are played on the field, and moving a player from attack to midfield and a midfield player to attack seems warranted, or how the offense flows, or defensive assignments, but this is the nature of coaching. It is a subjective business. Coaches are entitled to their opinions and so are parents and players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The continued narratives suggesting that somehow SJC and Potomac, which both had great seasons, could have been even better if they just played their "depth," are transparently self-serving.
We get it. Your daughter doesn't play for a top club, but is a good athlete, and you think she should get more PT. "Coach only plays her favorites". She has 12 favorites?? Plus the subs she does make? Come on.
The reality is that there are only two DC-area teams with true "depth": Good Counsel and Stone Ridge.
Bottom line, the Potomac and SJC coaches, around the game their whole lives, accomplished college athletes, and awesome people--who see these girls every day in pratice--have much better judgment on who can help on the field than a biased parent.

+1

I think parents need to get a grip and stop attacking coaches on an anonymous message board.

Then maybe the coach could stop "attacking" our kids on the sidelines and in the hallways when complaining to their family members who also work in the school about players and their parents for many other students to hear.

To be fair - SJC parents are nuts. [/quote

Not SJC. Point being, when a coach acts like a mean girl teenager, at practice, on the sidelines, and especially in the hallways of the school, I argue, that they are fair game. The road goes both ways. They cannot publicly humiliate teenage girls, without giving it a second thought, and not expect to have "disgruntled" parents (there's one poster here who seems to think any arguments that are from disgruntled parents are invalid, which is non-sensical) publicly share their experience.

[Anonymous]

Other than SJC and Bullis, are there any other programs in need of a HC this off-season?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The continued narratives suggesting that somehow SJC and Potomac, which both had great seasons, could have been even better if they just played their "depth," are transparently self-serving.
We get it. Your daughter doesn't play for a top club, but is a good athlete, and you think she should get more PT. "Coach only plays her favorites". She has 12 favorites?? Plus the subs she does make? Come on.
The reality is that there are only two DC-area teams with true "depth": Good Counsel and Stone Ridge.
Bottom line, the Potomac and SJC coaches, around the game their whole lives, accomplished college athletes, and awesome people--who see these girls every day in pratice--have much better judgment on who can help on the field than a biased parent.

+1

I think parents need to get a grip and stop attacking coaches on an anonymous message board.

Then maybe the coach could stop "attacking" our kids on the sidelines and in the hallways when complaining to their family members who also work in the school about players and their parents for many other students to hear.

To be fair - SJC parents are nuts. [/quote

Not SJC. Point being, when a coach acts like a mean girl teenager, at practice, on the sidelines, and especially in the hallways of the school, I argue, that they are fair game. The road goes both ways. They cannot publicly humiliate teenage girls, without giving it a second thought, and not expect to have "disgruntled" parents (there's one poster here who seems to think any arguments that are from disgruntled parents are invalid, which is non-sensical) publicly share their experience.

Are you talking about the Potomac coach? There is no way this is happening in the hallways of Potomac. I can see the x-coach at SJC being a mean girl but have a really hard time imagining this with coach Berg.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Other than SJC and Bullis, are there any other programs in need of a HC this off-season?

Academy of the Holy Cross is looking for new Coach as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other than SJC and Bullis, are there any other programs in need of a HC this off-season?

Academy of the Holy Cross is looking for new Coach as well.

I don't think that they are actively looking for a replacement at Holy Cross from what I gather there is a plan in place for a new coach already. Which is why it is not advertised as an open position on their website.

[Anonymous]

Who is the new coach at SJC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The continued narratives suggesting that somehow SJC and Potomac, which both had great seasons, could have been even better if they just played their "depth," are transparently self-serving.
We get it. Your daughter doesn't play for a top club, but is a good athlete, and you think she should get more PT. "Coach only plays her favorites". She has 12 favorites?? Plus the subs she does make? Come on.
The reality is that there are only two DC-area teams with true "depth": Good Counsel and Stone Ridge.
Bottom line, the Potomac and SJC coaches, around the game their whole lives, accomplished college athletes, and awesome people--who see these girls every day in pratice--have much better judgment on who can help on the field than a biased parent.

+1

I think parents need to get a grip and stop attacking coaches on an anonymous message board.

Then maybe the coach could stop "attacking" our kids on the sidelines and in the hallways when complaining to their family members who also work in the school about players and their parents for many other students to hear.

To be fair - SJC parents are nuts. [/quote

Not SJC. Point being, when a coach acts like a mean girl teenager, at practice, on the sidelines, and especially in the hallways of the school, I argue, that they are fair game. The road goes both ways. They cannot publicly humiliate teenage girls, without giving it a second thought, and not expect to have "disgruntled" parents (there's one poster here who seems to think any arguments that are from disgruntled parents are invalid, which is non-sensical) publicly share their experience.

Coaching the children of the helicopter parent generation appears to be a thankless job. Communicating clearly and intensely on the sideline is one thing, and is part of the game, even if being called out can be embarrassing. I just don’t buy that this type of thing was/is happening in hallways, in a “mean girl” format, at either school. I know both coaches and the Administrations wouldn’t tolerate it. Not disregarding all “disgruntled” parent arguments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who is the new coach at SJC?

Think their plan is to have new coach in place before Fall school semester starts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other than SJC and Bullis, are there any other programs in need of a HC this off-season?

Academy of the Holy Cross is looking for new Coach as well.

I don't think that they are actively looking for a replacement at Holy Cross from what I gather there is a plan in place for a new coach already. Which is why it is not advertised as an open position on their website.

Scratch Holy Cross off the list of those looking they have hired a new coach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who is the new coach at SJC?

Think their plan is to have new coach in place before Fall school semester starts.

Well - they haven’t posted the job - maybe they already have someone to step in?

[Anonymous]

Is SJC going to post the job or individually target a couple of coaches?