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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I was asking the Cougar parent about their travel teams.  U8s and All-Stars came up....Speaking of U8s, crossover started this past weekend.  I don't think VYS entered any teams.  Is that true? [/quote]

I don't think VYS has entered any teams in a crossover league since spring 2015.

The games were frankly the weak part of the program. Every club had a different approach. Alexandria had selected the 12 best U8s in the whole club and exempted them from their regular rec games. IFC didn't really even have a rec program, so they were basically an unofficial U8 travel team. VYS took the first 48 kids who signed up -- no tryouts at all -- and split them into random teams. The training was all skills-oriented, not game situations. That was all very noble and probably the "right" way to do it, but when you take a random group of kids that has no idea how to play with a goalkeeper or function as a unit, have them play their regular league games early Saturday, then have them drive down to Alexandria later that day to play with teammates whose names they don't even know ... well, you can imagine how those games went.

In the Gunney era, they had some sort of interim training program. This is what they have this year: 
http://vys-youthdevelopment.squarespace.com/

I see at least one Cougars team at the new South County Columbus Day tournament: https://events.gotsport.com/events/results.aspx?EventID=54705&Gender=Boys&Age=11  [/quote]

Looks like another Cougars team participating in the Alexandria's Columbus Day tournament.  https://events.gotsport.com/events/teamlist.aspx?eventid=53886[/quote]

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