DC Stoddert travel tryouts schedule

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All happening week of May 7th

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm 10:35 - this particular team is a rec team, so theoretically these families haven't signed anything saying we are their first priority. So we can't really do anything.

We did have one family drop the team after one season - their daughter literally missed half of the games (after they badgered us to get on the roster) and I think they decided it was too much of a commitment and they were pissing us off. (They were right. We were annoyed.) If you're taking up a roster spot on a team and we turned down other kids so you could play with us, you do need to respect the commitment.

We were on a travel team, and one girl missed nearly every tournament (holiday weekend) because her family liked to travel on holidays. That bugged me. We were short every tournament because they either didn't read the fine print in the contract they signed, or they just didn't care.

The church thing annoys me because Sunday games are pretty infrequent and I feel like your God will probably understand if you miss church twice a year for soccer. And these weren't Sunday morning games - these were well into the afternoon. Go to an earlier service, for Pete's sake.

For some of us, soccer is not the highest priority. We want our kids to play at the highest level and not feel penalized because of their commitment to their faith. Fortunately we have run into teams team/coaches that are flexible.

Fine, it doesn't need to be the highest priority but most games are on sundays so play rec and leave the roster spot to a kid who can play.

Why? I want it all, beautiful kids in travel sports, because rec is for poor Latinonkids. A great career that still gives me flexibility to leave early but something I can brag about. Ideally my spouse wants the same thing and we are both intensely focused on our goals and if you are inconvenianced by our ambition you are meant to be a nobody anyway.

A large bench is the worst.

^^ *if you don't include goalie minutes

There are pros and cons to different roster sizes. A larger roster has more players being developed for the age group player pool but less playing time per game, and the smaller roster has fewer players but more playing time.

Loudon or Arlington can have 4 or more teams per age group and go with small roster sizes per team because players can always be shuffled around as needed if one team needs more players.


If you have a team with 16 players playing 9v9, then divided equally, every player gets 30 minutes per game. With a roster of 12 9v9 divided, equally, every player gets 40 minutes per game.

Over a 10 game season, that would be 100 extra minutes of playing time. There is always an issue with injuries, absences, and kids getting sick and missing a game. Having more players in that case is better than having too few.

On the other hand, with fewer players, there is more playing time divided around. It depends on what is the best fit

^^ Preach!!

I hate hockey-style/shift change subbing. It sucks.

Planning so all kids get 30min of a 60 min game bites....especially when you drive over an hour each way.

The best travel team we were on had 3 subs...and sometimes given circumstances none. The kids loved it. They were in fantastic shape by the end of the season.

FPYCparent wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A roster of 16 kids to play 9v9? So 7 subs? I get that you want to expand the roster to prepare for 11v11 at U13 but that's ridiculous for U11.

With the way our coach manages games, I don't have a concern with current/anticipated roster size **right now.** Our coach sends in substitutes at set time intervals, barring injuries. (Yes, he's one of those hockey line changers.) When we have all twelve girls at a game, I think he subs every 8 minutes. He might have the goalkeeper swap with a defender, given that two players are staying on the field.

As far as **I** can tell, he's keeping overall playing time as even as possible. I don't think any players or parents have concerns about disparities in that regard. When we don't have our full squad at some games, a few players do get tired from playing longer stretches than "normal."

There are 7 subs if every one is there. Even if the coach gives everyone perfectly the same amount of time it's still ridiculous. Kids want to play! I would NEVER put my U10/U11 on a 9v9 (or an 11v11 team for that matter) if they had 7 subs. Find a team that rosters 12 or 13 MAX.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm 10:35 - this particular team is a rec team, so theoretically these families haven't signed anything saying we are their first priority. So we can't really do anything.

We did have one family drop the team after one season - their daughter literally missed half of the games (after they badgered us to get on the roster) and I think they decided it was too much of a commitment and they were pissing us off. (They were right. We were annoyed.) If you're taking up a roster spot on a team and we turned down other kids so you could play with us, you do need to respect the commitment.

We were on a travel team, and one girl missed nearly every tournament (holiday weekend) because her family liked to travel on holidays. That bugged me. We were short every tournament because they either didn't read the fine print in the contract they signed, or they just didn't care.

The church thing annoys me because Sunday games are pretty infrequent and I feel like your God will probably understand if you miss church twice a year for soccer. And these weren't Sunday morning games - these were well into the afternoon. Go to an earlier service, for Pete's sake.

For some of us, soccer is not the highest priority. We want our kids to play at the highest level and not feel penalized because of their commitment to their faith. Fortunately we have run into teams team/coaches that are flexible.

Fine, it doesn't need to be the highest priority but most games are on sundays so play rec and leave the roster spot to a kid who can play.

+1000

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm 10:35 - this particular team is a rec team, so theoretically these families haven't signed anything saying we are their first priority. So we can't really do anything.

We did have one family drop the team after one season - their daughter literally missed half of the games (after they badgered us to get on the roster) and I think they decided it was too much of a commitment and they were pissing us off. (They were right. We were annoyed.) If you're taking up a roster spot on a team and we turned down other kids so you could play with us, you do need to respect the commitment.

We were on a travel team, and one girl missed nearly every tournament (holiday weekend) because her family liked to travel on holidays. That bugged me. We were short every tournament because they either didn't read the fine print in the contract they signed, or they just didn't care.

The church thing annoys me because Sunday games are pretty infrequent and I feel like your God will probably understand if you miss church twice a year for soccer. And these weren't Sunday morning games - these were well into the afternoon. Go to an earlier service, for Pete's sake.

For some of us, soccer is not the highest priority. We want our kids to play at the highest level and not feel penalized because of their commitment to their faith. Fortunately we have run into teams team/coaches that are flexible.

Fine, it doesn't need to be the highest priority but most games are on sundays so play rec and leave the roster spot to a kid who can play.

Anonymous wrote:I'm 10:35 - this particular team is a rec team, so theoretically these families haven't signed anything saying we are their first priority. So we can't really do anything.

We did have one family drop the team after one season - their daughter literally missed half of the games (after they badgered us to get on the roster) and I think they decided it was too much of a commitment and they were pissing us off. (They were right. We were annoyed.) If you're taking up a roster spot on a team and we turned down other kids so you could play with us, you do need to respect the commitment.

We were on a travel team, and one girl missed nearly every tournament (holiday weekend) because her family liked to travel on holidays. That bugged me. We were short every tournament because they either didn't read the fine print in the contract they signed, or they just didn't care.

The church thing annoys me because Sunday games are pretty infrequent and I feel like your God will probably understand if you miss church twice a year for soccer. And these weren't Sunday morning games - these were well into the afternoon. Go to an earlier service, for Pete's sake.

For some of us, soccer is not the highest priority. We want our kids to play at the highest level and not feel penalized because of their commitment to their faith. Fortunately we have run into teams team/coaches that are flexible.

^^not everyone has Church as a priority.

It’s quite possible to have high morals, integrity and compassion and not practice a religion.

In fact, many that don’t attend church are better people than some of the hypocrites aka Republicans devout Christians.

Anonymous wrote:I'm 10:35 - this particular team is a rec team, so theoretically these families haven't signed anything saying we are their first priority. So we can't really do anything.

We did have one family drop the team after one season - their daughter literally missed half of the games (after they badgered us to get on the roster) and I think they decided it was too much of a commitment and they were pissing us off. (They were right. We were annoyed.) If you're taking up a roster spot on a team and we turned down other kids so you could play with us, you do need to respect the commitment.

We were on a travel team, and one girl missed nearly every tournament (holiday weekend) because her family liked to travel on holidays. That bugged me. We were short every tournament because they either didn't read the fine print in the contract they signed, or they just didn't care.

The church thing annoys me because Sunday games are pretty infrequent and I feel like your God will probably understand if you miss church twice a year for soccer. And these weren't Sunday morning games - these were well into the afternoon. Go to an earlier service, for Pete's sake.

Missing church for soccer is a case of putting the cart before the horse. I can quite confidently NONE of our children will be soccer superstars, but they can grow up to be adults that can prioritize those events that are important. It is the people that don't want to miss out on anything that I often find can't give any one activity their full attention.

I'm 10:35 - this particular team is a rec team, so theoretically these families haven't signed anything saying we are their first priority. So we can't really do anything.

We did have one family drop the team after one season - their daughter literally missed half of the games (after they badgered us to get on the roster) and I think they decided it was too much of a commitment and they were pissing us off. (They were right. We were annoyed.) If you're taking up a roster spot on a team and we turned down other kids so you could play with us, you do need to respect the commitment.

We were on a travel team, and one girl missed nearly every tournament (holiday weekend) because her family liked to travel on holidays. That bugged me. We were short every tournament because they either didn't read the fine print in the contract they signed, or they just didn't care.

The church thing annoys me because Sunday games are pretty infrequent and I feel like your God will probably understand if you miss church twice a year for soccer. And these weren't Sunday morning games - these were well into the afternoon. Go to an earlier service, for Pete's sake.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VYS Trout Schedule:

http://www.vys.org/travel/tryouts

Thanks do you know if the coaching slate is available yet?

Coaching slate now available along with updates tryout schedule

http://www.vys.org/travel/tryouts

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:9:47 - more subs is good if you have a team of overscheduled kids. We have a roster of 11 for a 7x7 format, and I wish we could roster 12. 3 kids are on multiple soccer teams, a couple of kids have softball conflicts, several are church-y families that will no-show for Sunday games, and a few have families who like to travel on weekends. So we're usually missing at least a couple of girls per game, or someone's coming late or leaving early.

Honestly, these people should not be playing travel soccer id it's not their priority. There is a commitment to the team when you accept an offer.

+100

I am all for missing for an important family event---a family wedding (which you should know and communicate well in advance), obviously any death, even a best friend's party in the younger age groups (again, communicated well in advance).

BUT--if these people are so wishy-washy that they are missing regularly for church (we used to do Saturday evening mass as a kid because all 3 of us played travel soccer on Sundays; and the Lord understood during tournament weekends when that wasn't possible), if they are missing because they are doing multiple sports (they shouldn't commit to a travel team if they can't make many of the games/practices for conflicts), and if families travel frequently on the weekends they should not be playing travel soccer (again--once in awhile thing with lots of advance--okay--but not if you are going to your country home every other weekend).

If I had a kid in the 'BUT' category above, I would not select him/her the following year. I would let them know it was due to attendance and lack of commitment.

At higher levels/ages, circumstances are stricter and by teens kid will make sacrifices, missing a friend's party, etc.,,,,U12 and under I am a lot more understanding.