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She's a good coach on paper.
She's mean at heart. But she's coaching young children. She runs the program like she's running Ajax - in fact she quoted that during one of her team parents meetings.
One year her 11/12 year old 'red' team (the B team) lost a bunch of their games. What she ended up doing was she cut all the smaller sized kids to the 'C' team. You know, like it was their fault. And like losing some games at U11 was a big deal. She talks about it being about development but her teams have as many physically large girls that she can find it seems.

That year the player critiques she writes - again pages and pages of criticisms- included one to a physically large girl on the 'A team' that detailed that she/the girl  was only on that team because she was physically big but that she 'had no talent'. That girl's mom threw it in the trash can but she told the other parents (not the girl).

She pits  the kids against each other, threatening to cut them or to cut them down a team, to increase their work rate.

Could go on and on but it's late - have fun!

Oh, and if anyone has a problem with me writing this I saved all of my Karen correspondence. It' was just too priceless to not save it.

But she's a good coach. stoddert had her running their programs for years. [/quote]

Accurate summary and anecdotes.  Always surprised me she was coaching younger kids - seemed very ill-suited temperamentally to it.  I do think some of her anger she took out on parents because she couldn't do it with kids.  Anyway, DD wasn't on her team ever, but obviously encountered her a lot (you can't avoid it U9-12 girls in stoddert).  Started with the emails u9 during preseason practice and how far behind the girls were vs other clubs, and continued on.  Fortunately by U11 she stops caring about anything other than her blue (top) team, which means she leaves the other coaches to their devices (and to find fields) - but at least you don't have to deal with her.  Got to the point at U12 where when the team needed guests to fill out the roster she reached down to U11 blue instead of the U12 red team - so much for the "club" approach of training together.  There was basically no in-season movement between teams, even though some players greatly improved during the course of the season and some swaps would have benefited everyone.[/quote]

Yeah - the emails and the epic meetings to talk about how incompetent your young children are at soccer. The memories!
Before people think we're all nuts - the girls played because the other kids were nice and they liked playing and the parents were typically pretty fun and interesting too.

Not sure if you're getting him too but Karen's husband is way better with the little kids.[/quote]

Some definitely quit though. One who was cut from one of her teams went straight to a top Bethesda team.[/quote]

There is a small club in DC that took has maybe 7-8 stoddert travel girls- 3-4 from the top team. Look at your team and take 3-4 top players off it. [/quote]

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