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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question about BSC, since you seem knowledgeable.  I have a 2009 girl (currently U10) considering trying out.  Any insight into the coaching for that age group?  And I assume that they try to keep the same coach year after year? (Unless a coach leave the club?)
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Coaches for that age group (i.e., U8-U12) do not always follow the age group in the following years, even for the Blue teams.  In fact, I cannot think of any coach that has followed a team for all 5 of those years.  Our daughter had 3 different coaches during her 5 years in that age group.  With that said, I think it has been more common for the Blue team coach at U10 or U11 to follow the team for a couple years.  The current U12 Blue coach has been with that age group since U10, but that U12 team will get one of the ECNL coaches next year when they move up to U13.  The current U11 Blue coach is in her second year with that team.

With respect to your specific question, I do not believe the coaches for next year have been finalized, but I would be very, very surprised if the current U10 Blue coach was not coaching those girls next year when they move up to U11.  I personally like him and think highly of him as a coach, and I know a lot of parents on his U12 and U10 Blue teams that feel similarly.  In my opinion, his strongest skills as a coach are developing the girls from a technical perspective.  The criticisms of him as a coach are that he does not "coach to win" in the opinion of a number of parents, but there has been a lot of ink spilled about whether it is good from a development perspective for kids in the U8-U12 age group to be on teams that play to win.  Don't get me wrong, I get that everyone wants to win, and ideally your kids are on a team that is learning to play the game properly, developing technical skills, and winning, but that trifecta is rarely achieved at any club in the U-Little ages.  The White team parents would also complain that he does not demote any girls from the Blue team, and I know he feels like that is harsh to do this to girls that are 9, 10 or 11 years old.  As a result, there are few spots available for promotions (or girls outside the club) on his teams.  That is not to say that he never promotes, as I think there are 2 former White and Green team players on his U12 Blue team, and 2-3 girls who came from outside the club and made the Blue team in the last couple years.  Lastly, I would say that there are definitely 2-3 parents from his Blue teams that would talk very poorly about him, with their primary criticism that he was too critical of their daughters.  One of those parents is an incredibly difficult person, and has been highly critical of nearly every coach his daughter has ever had.[/quote]

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