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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"I think the WIS students and parents are out of control soccer "fans" and anyone who claims the lacrosse parents in the DC metro area are the worst should attend a WIS soccer game against a strong opposing team. WIS behavior, verbal taunts and "cheering" is ugly, vitirolic, and displays the worst type of sports "fan" behavior. Local lacrosse and football (and frankly all other sports) "fan" behavior truly pales in comparison."

I'm not involved with either WIS or STA but have two kids who have played various sports in soccer, baseball, football, lacrosse and wrestling.

Landon has the worst-over invested parent base by far in every sporting event I have witnessed. I've also been surprised by the folks at Mater Dei.

I read in the Washington Post comments section about last year's STA/WIS game. If what I read in there is true, STA behavior was egregious. It does not reflect what I have personally seen at STA throughout the years.

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I was at that game last year (stayed to watch after going to the girls game) and did not see bad behavior by STA.   The STA kids had a red white and blue theme, and the WIS kids had many international flags that they were waving.   The STA fan section had a number of adults monitoring it and cheers were clean and not inappropriate.   As I recall, the WIS parents made comments on a Post article that they thought the STA students were "jingoistic"  because of the red white and blue and USA theme.   To me, it seemed a fairly basic and good-natured response to playing "Washington International School,"  and as noted above, the WIS cheering section had many flags from other countries so it seemed like they were embracing the "international" label.

Honestly, after being there at the game I read the comments and just thought it was sour grapes from fans of the losing side.   I also had to move my seat away from some WIS parents who were screaming throughout at officials  and opposing players (which in itself I thought was unseemly).  I will say that that after I moved other people from WIS came over to me and apologized for the behavior of their fellow parents,  so it was probably just a minority group of people that are not good fans.   Moreover, the only red card awarded in the game was to a WIS player who jumped into the St. Albans fan section to taunt the fans after a goal was scored.

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