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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Too few clubs offer an alternative for U9-U12s.  Rec teams are not even serious and treated as a joke, and few selection-based teams offer something in between rec and full blown NCSL travel  ---- where we are with its big tourneys, winter practices, etc.

Can anyone name a VA club that has a U9-U12 select or travel-lite team that:

does not require a year commitment

practices only twice a week within 30 minutes of DC

plays in maybe one tourney a season

has all its home and away games within an hour drive of DC

has professional coaches

costs half of the usual $3K a year ---- because it doesn't have any DOCs, etc., etc.

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Yes, Arlington Soccer has its Arlington Development Program (ADP) not Development Academy.  It sits at that sweet spot between Rec and Travel - and some of the teams are better than the lower travel teams.  You have to try out for the team, 2 practices a week - one with a professional coach and one with a parent coach, and games are only against other Arlington ADP teams.  Some of the ADP parent coaches will enter their team into various travel team competitions.  The cost is either $300 a semester or for the whole year, and that includes the uniforms and socks.   They try to base it around your school, but if one team gets too good, they will shuffle teams around to even them out to keep it competitive for all.  My son's team had several kids who could have easily been high ASA travel players, but the parents did not want that kind of commitment or worked too much.  They have tryouts in both the Fall and Spring, but Spring is just to fill in some kids who left.  Is it perfect? No, one of the worst parents I've come across, and I've had 3 kids in travel, was an [b]ADP parent screaming at his kid every game. [/b] All games are in Arlington, just now always the best fields.[/quote]

I have seen some horrific parents on the sidelines at ADP.  Maybe because the travel coaches don't allow that behavior and ADP games are not paid coaches, usu. volunteers that won't stand up (or are part of the crazy).

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