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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We would not recommend BRYC soccer club. Extremely toxic and subjective play environment for girls, with uncertified coaches including parents coaching travel teams that charge upwards of $3k for a season. Our experience has been extremely disappointing and disheartening. The coaches and teammates ostracized our daughter, minimized play time, blatantly favoring players including the coaches daughter. The most unprofessional group we have participated in a league with. One event that highlights this was a film watch at the house of the team manager. Upon pickup the house was full of men drinking and wondering the home  seemingly unsupervised, and while preteen girls were there for this soccer event. Further, the entire top travel team in NCDL of U12 girls all left last season and now we understand the reason. Incredibly unfortunate to have had this experience and we would not want anyone else to fall into this situation. We do not recommend BRYC girls soccer to anyone. [/quote]

Ahhh yes, watch out for Clubs that bring on lots of Mom and Dad coaches...these parents start out by coaching in rec and either apply or are recruited by the club to transition into coaching in travel.  They get paid a little money and their kids get to play for free...they are really incentivized to stick it out.  They are so busy working, coaching and being a parent that they often don't have the bandwidth to setup a developmental style practice and scrimmage the kids a lot.  Then, there is no way they coach their own kid in an unbiased way.  A lot of coaches kids are great soccer players, but they will always be selected for the top team as all the coaches in the club know those kids and will always get selected for the top team at tryouts.  We left a small club, that competes with BRYC a lot, in part because there were too many parent coaches (about 6) and there were issues that were going to fester or just not be corrected.  One coaches kid just fouls everybody and the Coach won't address it.

While those issues are minor and they certainly are not the same thing as preteen girls being in a "house full of men drinking," having a parent coaches can lead to a situation where lines are blurred between Coach, athlete, parent and friend.  Ask the DOC or TD if the club allows parent-coaches after the 1st year.   I'm all for parent-coaches, just not their own kid's team after U9.[/quote]

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