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[quote=Anonymous]BRYC girls U9-U12 is run academy style. There are many postings here on how they do it. U9-U12 only does scrimmage days and tournaments, they do not play in a league.

At U9/U10, a lot of players come and go, they take mostly any player who is borderline "travel" material, or higher of course. Braddock Road has ODSL level teams (they don't have NCSL teams at that age), and some players cross over between ODSL and the academy. You do see a lot of younger siblings of older players, since it's an easy option for parents already driving them to practice around the same fields.

By U11, some players aren't ready for the next step, in that case they stay on their ODSL or house league all-stars level teams which is not part of the academy. At U11, more players join out of the blue because they've spent U9/U10 somewhere else and want a more serious program, or BRYC is close to them and the parents think it's a better option than their current team/program. Word of mouth is strong with BRYC because of its history and it covers a wide area (3 public high schools in its foot print, Robinson, Woodson, Lake Braddock), plus it's not a small club.

By the time the players reach U12, they have a core group of players that they know who is ECNL material and who isn't. A good chunk of these players have just joined at U12 from other places to get known by the coaches a year in advance for the ECNL selections, and were not "developed" by the club at the younger years.

Then when U13 ECNL tryouts come around, even more players from elsewhere will try out. So when the U13 team ECNL is formed, how many of those players can you say were developed by the club? 1/2? 1/3? 1/4? Who knows... but it doesn't matter, because they will always be able to field a competitive squad at U13 because they draw in players from outside the club.[/quote]

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