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[quote=Arch][quote=dcu13]What exactly are the "bridge" teams you all are talking about?[/quote]

Bridge teams are BRYC travel teams created by and led by volunteer coaches (i.e. parents). They mostly used to play in ODSL until that folded and now they all play in NCSL Bridge teams within the same age group compete for players and have no unified coaching philosophy or training or style of play. But, they have historically have had the pipeline into the BRYC rec program because the bridge coaches largely were rec coaches who took top players from rec to start travel teams.  Bridge teams think of themselves as part of the rec program for the most part and the rec program definitely claims the bridge teams and their coaches and players as their own. Because they are volunteer led, their costs are significantly cheaper as a travel option--significantly cheaper than any travel option in the DMV. They have several great players at each age group but those could be spread out among bridge teams and of course not part of the academy.

The academy has paid coaches, and their prices are competitive with the other travel clubs in the area. They use a player pool system also similar to most other clubs in the area that field multiple teams across age groups. They have almost no pipeline into the rec program, however, and therefore often are looking at scraps from the rec program by the time they do get a look at them--leftovers of players who perhaps weren't good enough to go travel with a bridge team early on, or weren't interested at the time. Therefore BRYC as a club pretty much never has a team that fields their top players (across bridge and the academy) within any age group. Ever.  And you can see the results.

There is a huge vote tonight that will determine the fate of both sides.[/quote]

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