Anonymous wrote:No direct experience, but we’ve played against them at JPOL & RCCs. It seems incredibly toxic. The coach yells nonstop, curses at the players, and (I swear this to be true) doesn’t even know the names of all the girls on the team (eg ‘get over here, whatever your name is).
I’ve seen only one worse environment—where the coach’s behavior rubbed off on the girls & they yelled at each other on the pitch.

I have seen some of the same.

I found myself extending a common courtesy to the director (like holding the door open for the person behind you) and she made no acknowledgment of my presence at all. It was something even a 10 year old would know to acknowledge with a thank you. This was in front of her players. It left me thinking how glad I was not to have signed my daughter up to play with her. Just too many negatives imo.

Anonymous wrote:No direct experience, but we’ve played against them at JPOL & RCCs. It seems incredibly toxic. The coach yells nonstop, curses at the players, and (I swear this to be true) doesn’t even know the names of all the girls on the team (eg ‘get over here, whatever your name is).
I’ve seen only one worse environment—where the coach’s behavior rubbed off on the girls & they yelled at each other on the pitch.

Well, I do and this is not accurate.

No direct experience, but we’ve played against them at JPOL & RCCs. It seems incredibly toxic. The coach yells nonstop, curses at the players, and (I swear this to be true) doesn’t even know the names of all the girls on the team (eg ‘get over here, whatever your name is).
I’ve seen only one worse environment—where the coach’s behavior rubbed off on the girls & they yelled at each other on the pitch.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard many people speak of favoritism as an on going issue for years. If you read through the field hockey club discussion from last year, you will find many less than favorable comments about the head coach.

True. But the ones that left are favorites. And yes, largely from one are private school.

They’ve had some coaches leave but also are bringing in some awesome new ones. And their winter rosters are strong (on paper at least- we’ll see).

Every single club has issues, fwiw. Husel at least seems to be making some changes for the positive.

New coaches won’t fix a problem with the director.

Sure it will, to some extent. These are professional coaches who aren't going to put up with a lot of nonsense. Changes are already being felt.

Additionally, there are crazy directors, coaches, and people at every club - locally and outside the DMV.

Also, for those leaving one club or another it is the devil you know . . . you may be getting better, but you may be getting worse. And you won't know where you fall on the roster if there are already established players in "your" spot.

As a parent who had older kids who played club sports in soccer and lacrosse the behavior of the director is outside the norm. It’s way beyond the run of the mill issues of playing time, favoritism.

Look. I’m not a fan. But it’s really not.

I say this as someone who has lots of friends with kids at other clubs, locally and not. We’ve also played for t other teams and there is a LOT of dysfunction in all of them.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard many people speak of favoritism as an on going issue for years. If you read through the field hockey club discussion from last year, you will find many less than favorable comments about the head coach.

True. But the ones that left are favorites. And yes, largely from one are private school.

They’ve had some coaches leave but also are bringing in some awesome new ones. And their winter rosters are strong (on paper at least- we’ll see).

Every single club has issues, fwiw. Husel at least seems to be making some changes for the positive.

New coaches won’t fix a problem with the director.

Sure it will, to some extent. These are professional coaches who aren't going to put up with a lot of nonsense. Changes are already being felt.

Additionally, there are crazy directors, coaches, and people at every club - locally and outside the DMV.

Also, for those leaving one club or another it is the devil you know . . . you may be getting better, but you may be getting worse. And you won't know where you fall on the roster if there are already established players in "your" spot.

As a parent who had older kids who played club sports in soccer and lacrosse the behavior of the director is outside the norm. It’s way beyond the run of the mill issues of playing time, favoritism.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard many people speak of favoritism as an on going issue for years. If you read through the field hockey club discussion from last year, you will find many less than favorable comments about the head coach.

True. But the ones that left are favorites. And yes, largely from one are private school.

They’ve had some coaches leave but also are bringing in some awesome new ones. And their winter rosters are strong (on paper at least- we’ll see).

Every single club has issues, fwiw. Husel at least seems to be making some changes for the positive.

New coaches won’t fix a problem with the director.

Sure it will, to some extent. These are professional coaches who aren't going to put up with a lot of nonsense. Changes are already being felt.

Additionally, there are crazy directors, coaches, and people at every club - locally and outside the DMV.

Also, for those leaving one club or another it is the devil you know . . . you may be getting better, but you may be getting worse. And you won't know where you fall on the roster if there are already established players in "your" spot.

Anonymous wrote:We're at Perfect Performance (Mustangs) and two of our best coaches left and we're barely able to fill our competitive teams with so many girls leaving. Our U12 team only has 6 or so players and that's with several U10s playing up. Sounds like they're not going to Husel so where are they going?

Not sure about the younger age groups, but there are some u14 and up at Washington Wolves. At u10/u12 it’s also possible they just stopped playing. Maybe look at Nova Extreme.

We're at Perfect Performance (Mustangs) and two of our best coaches left and we're barely able to fill our competitive teams with so many girls leaving. Our U12 team only has 6 or so players and that's with several U10s playing up. Sounds like they're not going to Husel so where are they going?

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard many people speak of favoritism as an on going issue for years. If you read through the field hockey club discussion from last year, you will find many less than favorable comments about the head coach.

True. But the ones that left are favorites. And yes, largely from one are private school.

They’ve had some coaches leave but also are bringing in some awesome new ones. And their winter rosters are strong (on paper at least- we’ll see).

Every single club has issues, fwiw. Husel at least seems to be making some changes for the positive.

New coaches won’t fix a problem with the director.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard many people speak of favoritism as an on going issue for years. If you read through the field hockey club discussion from last year, you will find many less than favorable comments about the head coach.

True. But the ones that left are favorites. And yes, largely from one are private school.

They’ve had some coaches leave but also are bringing in some awesome new ones. And their winter rosters are strong (on paper at least- we’ll see).

Every single club has issues, fwiw. Husel at least seems to be making some changes for the positive.

They had an exodus of players over the summer, many of them from Bishop O'Connell. A number of them went to the Washington Wolves.

It also looks like there may have been a coaching shake-up, too, at Husel. The Fairfax HS head coach is no longer listed on their website. The new head coach at W+L HS is listed now.

I have no experience with Husel, but my kid is on the FH team at W+L, and the new coach is great. A breath of fresh air since the previous coach retired, just what the program needed. So hopefully she's bringing that to Husel too?

The program is very toxic. The director is vindictive and will go out of her way to bad mouth players to college coaches and other parents. If you try to leave the club she will threaten the girls, telling them she will “bury you” if you leave and makes veiled threats that the field hockey community is small

I’ve heard many people speak of favoritism as an on going issue for years. If you read through the field hockey club discussion from last year, you will find many less than favorable comments about the head coach.

Same - We are exploring clubs for DD. Are the toxic rumors true? She is a freshman if that matters.

What happened to this program? I am heading players and coaches left. Any idea why? We are looking at this program.