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[quote=Anonymous]In my experience, ASA travel in general isn't very good at developing players.  For some reason, even at the very young age groups where standings are not tracked (at least in CCL), they are focused on winning games instead of player development.  That said, you might get a coach that is the exception.  I don't hear many good things about McLean either.  I have heard PAC does a good job with developing players at the early ages.

As someone above stated, ASA will take a good player at any age group at pretty much any time and add him to an existing roster.  Not really sure how it comes to fruition, but it's happened every year for the last 5-6 years my kid has been in the program.  They come to a few tryouts to see how/on what team they'd fit.  Attending ASA travel tryouts is not the way to get into the club's travel program if you don't get in at U9.  They are terribly run and the coaches who are supposed to be evaluating the players are barely paying attention - often not even looking at the field they are supposed to be observing.  Your kid has to be lucky two ways-he has to get an opportunity to do something well, which is rare during short sided games at young age groups, he has to pull something eye catching off, and he has to be lucky enough that the coach was paying attention at the time.

We've stayed with the club because he started at U9 and has a lot of friends in the program.

ADP is a good balance between rec and travel at the early ages.  A few kids in my son's age group have come out of ADP.  I assume their professional coach put in a good word.
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