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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to the rankings MVSA is much better than MEVC and MOCO.  Not sure if your DD should stay with MVSA once she gets older.[/quote]

MVSA is a more established organization and has been around for several decades. With the larger number of teams and its history, MVSA certainly attracts greater interest and a larger number of girls who try out. MVSA teams, especially their 1's teams, are generally more competitive, when compared to MEVC and MOCO. At the same time, it seems MEVC and MOCO appear to be more willing to take newer players and girls who are less experienced. I cannot speak for MOCO but the spirit of MEVC, from my point of view, is to nurture the development of players and the joy of the sport. It does not mean the players I've seen are not willing to be competitive but I think the more competitive players are attracted to other clubs. I suppose it is a matter of where your child is in skillset as well as mindset that determines what club may be the ideal fit. [/quote]

All are good clubs, but they are different in a lot of respects.  There are generally more competitive players at MVSA and MOCO--their 1s teams are much closer to each other than they are to MEVC--and both clubs tend to have players that can compete for spots on the most competitive travel teams in the area.  MVSA tends to get a good set off players early and keep them until U15 or so, so there are very few spots open to new players.  They do run a rec league, but few players above U12 get onto teams.

MEVC is new, and generally has a development approach, although their teams are improving as they have more players come through the program. They do a good job of developing players, but sometimes struggle to hold on to them as they progress because their top teams generally don't compete at the higher levels of club.   MOCO has been around a bit longer, and has more players coming through their development programs like clinics, summer and fall programs.  They also put more of those players onto their lower teams.   Their top teams shifted to the upper levels of competition over the past few years.

Since MVSA has been around so long, they started when there were few other clubs in the area. They historically had a large pool of players to pull from.  As other clubs started--MOCO, then MEVC, then several others--the pool has shifted a lot, especially at the younger ages. Remember that it takes 8 years to take a group of players from U11-U18, so competitiveness is hard to measure until the clubs have had a chance to get established and develop players, and neither MOCO or MEVC have been around that long.

Regarding rankings, AES has a lot of issues, especially when comparing 1s travel teams to 2s regional teams.  1s travel teams from MVSA and MOCO are competing in harder tournaments where staying above .500 generally says your team is decent.  That same team competing in a local regional tournament would likely win all their matches, or close to it, and could probably do so against older competition.  You would need to look at MVSA, MOCO and MEVC head-to-head records to get a real comparison.  I would say MVSA 1s-&gt;MOCO 1s&gt;MVSA 2s&gt;MOCO 2s&gt;MEVC 1s, but each age group and team could be different. [/quote]

This was super super helpful, thank you very much![/quote]

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