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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A long email to club officials containing ALLCAPS is the surest marker of "crazy parent" in all of youth sports.  [/quote]

Agreed. I am interested to know how Coach Vanderhart responds. As for me, I think the parent should have taken "Travel Soccer 101" before starting the season (since this was their first year) and ending the year with a publicly posted long-winded one-sided email. Its very challenging for parents to keep a level-head where their kids and their money is concerned.[/quote]

What does "Travel Soccer 101" consist of?  A lesson in doing your homework in advance, I suppose.  We learned to investigate the team and coach several months before we do tryouts.  Had we done that the first time around, we would have been better off.  My note here is probably best viewed as what I wish I had seen before we did tryouts last year, without having done our homework.

Vanderhart's response was the corporate blow off, as expected.

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And how should he have responded differently? Asked you to return and head the BOD so the outfit runs to your preferred expectations? Your complaint is legitimate; your expectations though are not reasonable, and you can't blame the entire club or Coach Vanderhart for your kid's experience. You will - I promise - run into the same issue in the future, to a greater or lesser degree, because these issues are not endemic to VYS, they are in every club, and every club and every TD will handle things the best they can at the time, and it will never be 100% to your liking.

As for your kids soccer skills: every team has a bad season or two; if your kid loves soccer, that won't make them hate soccer; there is always extra training available for a kid who is passionate about improving if you have the time and money to invest in it. Please don't blame the whole club entity because your kid didn't progress as you hoped or expected. That being said, terrible abusive coaches should indeed be dealt with swiftly.

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Yep, shame on me for thinking it may have been nice for a club's girls travel director to maybe take an interest in a team whose coach was so bad he got fired mid-season and didn't win a single game in the Spring.  Seriously, this coach was an issue beginning in late August 2015.  VYS never once did anything they weren't forced to do by a group of concerned parents - and only then after several parents across two different teams threatened to leave mid season leaving both teams without enough players.

You even admit the complaint is legitimate.  Why is it suddenly off limits to expect a legitimate response.  Vanderhart could easily have said, "let's meet after practice and we can talk."  Or, "Wow, you really had rough year, we're sorry for our part in not recognizing what a problem that coach was."  That would have solved that and I would never have posted anything here.  As it stands, I'm getting parents writing me to thank me for daring to speak up.

The test of a good organization isn't how they deal with success.  It's how they deal with challenges.  VYS failed this one.  We won't be back and I'd only advise incoming parents to know their coach beforehand.  Because if VYS gives you a hot mess, you're screwed.

That's the last thing I'll type.  Bye now.  Lesson learned.[/quote]

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