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[quote=Anonymous]Pipeline is the most corrupt and toxic club in the DC-MD-VA area. This is not coming from a bitter parent whose kid was dropped from the A team or who isn’t “tough enough”. Do NOT subject your kid and your family to this organization.

- Don’t be fooled by the “developmental opportunities” narrative, when it comes to kids playing up or down. They take A team players a year up and play them down on the A team a year below. Then, they can brag that their younger team was “top of the bracket playing a year up”. Their doing it this weekend at the Baltimore Mania tournament and have done it regularly over the past 5 years. Technically legal? Sure. Ethical?  Absolutely not.

- Agree with the prior post. Guest players are sometimes recruits, but often kids who live 2-3 hours away and have no intention of joining the team or are “free agents” playing for multiple teams and leagues. It’s great to come home with trophies, but there is zero team unity. Every practice, every game, every tournament is a revolving door of new players.

- There is a Pipeline in-crowd. There the ones getting all the special treatment: true playing up opportunities, social media spotlights, real media spotlights, choice team placements without merit. Their parents are often assistant coaches in the club too. If you cross one of them, the “fake news” will spread like wildfire and they will work with the Piepline leadership (SR mostly) to try to ruin your kid.

- There is no player development although there is a ton of talent and natural athleticism on their teams. Watch any game though, and you’ll see the strategy is boot and run. They rarely maintain possession, because it’s never trained in practice. The teams are successful and the wins are great, but it’s often in spite of the coaches. If there is one reason to avoid this club, beyond the nastiness of the leadership and many of the in-crowd families, it’s because your kid will not become a better a player. [/quote]

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