Season of rainouts

[Anonymous]

It's not ASAs fault that it's rained so much and I know they use county fields, but it's also sucks that we pay for a season, yet lost 5 games and a bunch of practices this year. Our final game tomorrow will likely be rained out too. Is there no other way around this?

[Anonymous]

find a club that uses turf for training and games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not ASAs fault that it's rained so much and I know they use county fields, but it's also sucks that we pay for a season, yet lost 5 games and a bunch of practices this year. Our final game tomorrow will likely be rained out too. Is there no other way around this?

[Anonymous]

Our home field is all grass, but the club has done a great job reserving turf fields from the county/schools. We were able to play all our games, it comes down to being proactive in the front office. It will be a wet spring, I would ask the club what their plans are for that season.

[Anonymous]

More turf fields.
Period.

[Anonymous]

It happens. I just saw that DC was one of the rainiest cities in the US this year. It's not common. September is usually beautiful.

If the rain bothers you, then don't sign your kid up for baseball. At least 1/2 of those games will be rained out.

[Anonymous]

Yeah this soccer season was not good weather wise.

That said, ASA is very quick to close grass fields. We play through the City of Falls Church (which then feeds into ASA at third grade) and Falls Church does not seem to close grass fields as quickly. Last weekend we were able to play our games on grass at Falls Church whereas our grass games at ASA were cancelled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It happens. I just saw that DC was one of the rainiest cities in the US this year. It's not common. September is usually beautiful.

If the rain bothers you, then don't sign your kid up for baseball. At least 1/2 of those games will be rained out.

But that's what's so frustrating...soccer is supposed to be an "anything but lightning" sport.
You don't expect so many soccer rain outs, even with so much rain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah this soccer season was not good weather wise.

That said, ASA is very quick to close grass fields. We play through the City of Falls Church (which then feeds into ASA at third grade) and Falls Church does not seem to close grass fields as quickly. Last weekend we were able to play our games on grass at Falls Church whereas our grass games at ASA were cancelled.

ASA doesn't control whether the fields close, Arlington County makes that call. They have gotten stricter over the past few years about closing fields, perhaps because of the money they've invested in upgrading some of the grass field facilities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It happens. I just saw that DC was one of the rainiest cities in the US this year. It's not common. September is usually beautiful.

If the rain bothers you, then don't sign your kid up for baseball. At least 1/2 of those games will be rained out.

But that's what's so frustrating...soccer is supposed to be an "anything but lightning" sport.
You don't expect so many soccer rain outs, even with so much rain.

Unfortunately they can’t let people play on wet natural fields on a regular basis or they would all turn into wastelands like the Swanson field.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

But that's what's so frustrating...soccer is supposed to be an "anything but lightning" sport.

You don't expect so many soccer rain outs, even with so much rain.

soccer is an anything but lightning sport... if you have turf or don't care about the future conditions of your grass fields; most organizations do care now about the conditions of their fields and don't want to spend more monies for fixes, rather than upkeep.

while matches on well manicured pitches/fields are preferred, it comes at a price.

[Anonymous]

Is this Rec or Travel? Rec is $85 and Travel in in the thousands. I would be upset, but understand weather issues with Rec---but if I were paying for Travel--I'd be pissed beyond belief.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this Rec or Travel? Rec is $85 and Travel in in the thousands. I would be upset, but understand weather issues with Rec---but if I were paying for Travel--I'd be pissed beyond belief.

Believe it or now, where I live, most rec leagues secure turf fields for older kids, whereas there are so many travel clubs that many games are on grass. Our rec player never has rainouts, but we've had multiple travel games for our other kids scheduled for grass fields that have been rescheduled two or more times and still have not been played. One of my kids' travel team has more than 13 practices cancelled this season.

Even more than the money, what kills me is the stress of planning to get the kids to all of the practices and games, only to have them canceled or rescheduled at the last minute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It happens. I just saw that DC was one of the rainiest cities in the US this year. It's not common. September is usually beautiful.

If the rain bothers you, then don't sign your kid up for baseball. At least 1/2 of those games will be rained out.

But that's what's so frustrating...soccer is supposed to be an "anything but lightning" sport.
You don't expect so many soccer rain outs, even with so much rain.

Arlington County is VERY protective of its fields. I doubt that will change. They don't want them to get ripped up because they are expensive to fix. Travel is on turf if you want to go that route.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this Rec or Travel? Rec is $85 and Travel in in the thousands. I would be upset, but understand weather issues with Rec---but if I were paying for Travel--I'd be pissed beyond belief.

Believe it or now, where I live, most rec leagues secure turf fields for older kids, whereas there are so many travel clubs that many games are on grass. Our rec player never has rainouts, but we've had multiple travel games for our other kids scheduled for grass fields that have been rescheduled two or more times and still have not been played. One of my kids' travel team has more than 13 practices cancelled this season.

Even more than the money, what kills me is the stress of planning to get the kids to all of the practices and games, only to have them canceled or rescheduled at the last minute.

Plus the stress of knowing that competing players and teams have gotten 13 more practices than your kid this season