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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since there is a Herndon thread anyway- we played their girls team this weekend and their uniforms said Sterling on them. Did those two clubs merge?

I don't remember playing them last year. Did they even have girls teams last year?

I don't want to be unkind but anyone who knows girls soccer would know ahead of time that this Sterling/Herndon team will not be competitive in this league.

It seems kind of nasty to knowingly enter teams into a league where they will lose badly every game. Are they required to enter teams for boys and girls at every birth year to stay in RL? [/quote]

I think Herndon and Sterling announced a merger for the older girls age groups. It was the only way they’d have enough for RL teams. And I agree that it’s hard on those girls because they are not at that level.

I am curious about your last question too. If the league requires girls and boys teams at all age groups I don’t see how Herndon can stay in RL when they do not even have girls teams at some of the younger age groups. Which would be a real shame for the boys.

I don’t understand how a club could let its girls side just fall apart like that… unless they never really had much of a girls side to begin with? And are leagues just recently starting to require teams for both boys and girls at all age groups?  [/quote]

Herndon is a small-ish club. All the small clubs have a hard time rostering girls teams for RL. There just are so few girls who play compared to boys side. Their only travel teams on the girls side are playing in RL. The larger clubs have 2 or more lower travel teams for development. Herndon is pulling kids straight from rec league into ECRL. Its simply impossible to have competitive teams with no player pool and you can't attract good players without an existing program.
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I am not convinced that Herndon leadership sees what is potentially coming for next year. They may find themselves shut out of ECNL RL without younger girls teams to put in. It seems there are challenges with getting girls to play in the Herndon/Sterling area. There aren't as many in the first place, and the ones that do play apparently go to the bigger clubs that are very close by. [/quote]

We live in Herndon and DD has been playing travel for several years.  There are actually a lot of girls who live in the Herndon area who play soccer.  Hardly any of them play for HYS.  It's been well known for a very long time that Herndon does not value girls soccer so some of the girls may have started out at Herndon but moved on when they realized this or just started out at better clubs.  There are a lot of travel options for players who live in the Herndon area that are close by and all of them are better options for girls than HYS.

Herndon used to be a pretty decent sized club.  About 10-12 years ago they were fielding 3 teams per age group on both boys and girls side.  It's a shame how much the management of the club has caused such a drastic downturn in the overall quality.[/quote]

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