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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is the DC United Regional Development School worth it for top players or a huge money grab? And why would a girl do it? Thoughts?

https://www.dcunited.com/youth/rds[/quote]

If you click on the registration and start the process you will find it is essentially supplemental training for 8 Saturday evenings for $350, assuming your kid passes the open tryout for the program. Trainings will divided by age group (8-11 group & 12-14 year old group, depending on numbers).

Without going to that 1st tryout, it will be hard to know if they are really cutting kids at the tryouts or not.  You can assume this is not for rec level players.  Most of the high performance training groups, like to gate-keep a little by saying kids have to be assessed before they are allowed to join our super select group. So, this can just be a normative disclaimer or maybe if they really get too many kids, they won't let everyone in. Hard to say. Or that could change by location (There is a high demand in Alexandria, but a low demand in Fredericksburg; would the demand change the skill level that is accepted?)

For the price, it would be a good deal $45 for 90 min of training on nice fields for 8 sessions by DC United Coaching Staff (But is it really? At what level is the coaching staff for little kids?)

You would have to figure there will be more attendance of boys than girls as obviously girls are not being recruited into MLS. So, with only 40 slots, divided into 2 groups, 20 per group, how many girls would there be per group, on average? Hard to say, but 'Id expect about 4-6 girls per group in the training. But again there is no way to really know. My DD has been to mostly all boys perforce training groups and those sessions have been hit or miss.

Looking at the model, I would guess they will run this training again in the Spring time as long as it pays for itself.

DC United has run camps and clinics in the past and those were fairly low-level camps for any kid that signed up.  This should be a higher level and players can be recommended to join the DC United Academy if the Coach recommends them at the end of training.

-Remains to be seen if it is a money grab or not.  It does not appear to be. It appears to be great supplemental training, offered for a limited period in multiple locations. 
-Girls would do it for higher quality training, there are a few girls that are training with MLS Next teams on a very limited basis and would be interested in this as well. But, truly very few girls could train/ play at that level.  So, it is hard to say if they would cut most girls at the 1st tryout or not.  [/quote]

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