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[quote=Anonymous]Living in McLean means Caps Academy in Ballston will most likely be your geographically closest travel team rink/program. A little further away is Reston and The St. James. Check out all three, they are members of the [url=https://www.cbhl.org/][b][color=red]CBHL[/color][/b][/url]. Caps Academy and Reston offer four levels of travel (AA, Upper A, Lower A, B) at the 10U and 12U level. I think The St. James offers three.

If you want to avoid a "win at all cost" environment stay away from Ashburn. Lots of banners, but I've witnessed first hand, coaches screaming at 8U and 10U players and refs like the game was a Stanley Cup game.

The majority (not all) of the players that move on to play AAA for either [b]Team Maryland[/b] or [b]Washington Little Caps[/b] are usually from the Ashburn, Montgomery (MYHA), Reston, or Caps Academy, or Loudoun clubs. Take that for what its worth.

Tryouts are intentionally scheduled at the same time to keep kids/families from trying out for three or four different teams and club swapping from season to season. I'd suggest settling on two teams for tryouts. Let the teams know you are new to the area and are trying out for two teams to see which is the best fit.

My DS plays travel at Reston and loves it. It's a fun environment with good coaches, quality development, nice parents (who root equally for all of the kids), good teammates & friendships, and competitive teams.

Good luck[/quote]

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