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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The U12 teams do not function as DA teams.  DA teams draw from a much, much broader area with a significantly higher level of talent reflecting substantially more competition during tryouts.  These U12 teams are mostly U11 teams from these clubs that are one year older.  Some are good, just like their U10 and U11 top teams.  Some are not.  None will be nearly as good as DA teams at U13, and nobody but top players on these U12 teams should assume they are likely to get selected for U13 DA.  Can we please stop misleading people about these teams?  [/quote]

Let's put it this way: your best chance to make any DA team is to be a good player already with that club. But even so, there is more year-to-year turnover at younger ages. They might replace half the team U12->U13, then maybe 30% the next year, then just 4-5 guys the next year, and so on. So if you think you want to play on Bethesda's U13 DA team in 18 months, your best bet is to play for their U12 pre-academy next year; you have the inside track--if you actually perform.[/quote]

Yes, you might have an inside track but, in my experience, kids that deserve to get selected do get selected at least for 07, 06, and 05s that I know.  The kids that I know that have tried out and deserve to make the DA, actually made the DA. This is for Arlington, DCU, and Bethesda at least. ... also Loudoun when they had the DA. Now, if it's a tough choice for the DA between 2 or 3 kids, then I think the DAs go with their home club kid....and I think that's OK.  Go with the kid that you are more familiar with.  But if the kid really deserves to be on the team...meaning he is truly one of the best players out there, my experience is that they get identified and selected.  Some kids knew someone in the club and got opportunities to join training sessions and was selected that way.  Most just went through the ID sessions and then were asked to join team training sessions.  And no, they were all big, tall, fast, aggressive kids.  Some were and still are small, technical kids.[/quote]

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