Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't you expect all the kids to try out for the top teams? They have never divided up tryouts this way by level in the past. Maybe its an improvement.

I have seen other clubs separate out their ECNL RL/academy level (for younger ages) tryouts from their other teams. One of my kids is at that level, the other is not and we would not bring them to a tryout for top teams. If a kid is on a third team, or even the second team but has never been asked to guest play higher, they and their parents should probably be realistic about whether they have any shot at the top team.

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't you expect all the kids to try out for the top teams? They have never divided up tryouts this way by level in the past. Maybe its an improvement.

And, half of 1 field for each age group for 1 hour? What can you do with that? Are they not expecting anyone to show up?

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Anonymous wrote:Given all the combined age groups going on just one field for tryout, they are clearly not anticipating many prospects.

If you’re talking about Sterling this is not correct. They have 2 full turf fields, and the girls are broken out into 2 time slots. That is plenty of space.

No, talking about the Herndon schedule on their website.

DP. I assume they don’t expect too many girls to come to the tryout on the Herndon schedule if most of the girls currently playing are from Sterling. Herndon doesn’t even have a girls team for some age groups.

BTW how did they manage to screw that up? I heard there was an ok girls program at one point but some coaches or bad decisions around coaching drove the families away.

My impression is the board never cared about the girls side as anything other than a potential revenue stream.

which is strange because almost all the complaints on here are from boys side parents.

Wouldn't you expect all the kids to try out for the top teams? They have never divided up tryouts this way by level in the past. Maybe its an improvement.

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Anonymous wrote:Given all the combined age groups going on just one field for tryout, they are clearly not anticipating many prospects.

If you’re talking about Sterling this is not correct. They have 2 full turf fields, and the girls are broken out into 2 time slots. That is plenty of space.

No, talking about the Herndon schedule on their website.

DP. I assume they don’t expect too many girls to come to the tryout on the Herndon schedule if most of the girls currently playing are from Sterling. Herndon doesn’t even have a girls team for some age groups.

BTW how did they manage to screw that up? I heard there was an ok girls program at one point but some coaches or bad decisions around coaching drove the families away.

The boys tryouts are overcrowded too, for instance u13 and u14 have six teams currently, they want six teams worth of kids plus outside players too all tryout on one field for 1.5 hours?

If I am reading the schedule right, the tryouts for the top (black/ECNL RL) teams are on separate dates from the red and white (NPL/NCSL) teams. So only the boys are already on/who want to make the top team would go to the first set of dates. Then the second set of dates is for boys for whom that's not their goal/who didn't end up making the top team.

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Anonymous wrote:Given all the combined age groups going on just one field for tryout, they are clearly not anticipating many prospects.

If you’re talking about Sterling this is not correct. They have 2 full turf fields, and the girls are broken out into 2 time slots. That is plenty of space.

No, talking about the Herndon schedule on their website.

DP. I assume they don’t expect too many girls to come to the tryout on the Herndon schedule if most of the girls currently playing are from Sterling. Herndon doesn’t even have a girls team for some age groups.

BTW how did they manage to screw that up? I heard there was an ok girls program at one point but some coaches or bad decisions around coaching drove the families away.

The boys tryouts are overcrowded too, for instance u13 and u14 have six teams currently, they want six teams worth of kids plus outside players too all tryout on one field for 1.5 hours?

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Anonymous wrote:Given all the combined age groups going on just one field for tryout, they are clearly not anticipating many prospects.

If you’re talking about Sterling this is not correct. They have 2 full turf fields, and the girls are broken out into 2 time slots. That is plenty of space.

No, talking about the Herndon schedule on their website.

DP. I assume they don’t expect too many girls to come to the tryout on the Herndon schedule if most of the girls currently playing are from Sterling. Herndon doesn’t even have a girls team for some age groups.

BTW how did they manage to screw that up? I heard there was an ok girls program at one point but some coaches or bad decisions around coaching drove the families away.

My impression is the board never cared about the girls side as anything other than a potential revenue stream.

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Anonymous wrote:Given all the combined age groups going on just one field for tryout, they are clearly not anticipating many prospects.

If you’re talking about Sterling this is not correct. They have 2 full turf fields, and the girls are broken out into 2 time slots. That is plenty of space.

No, talking about the Herndon schedule on their website.

DP. I assume they don’t expect too many girls to come to the tryout on the Herndon schedule if most of the girls currently playing are from Sterling. Herndon doesn’t even have a girls team for some age groups.

BTW how did they manage to screw that up? I heard there was an ok girls program at one point but some coaches or bad decisions around coaching drove the families away.

wtf is a herndon and how do i make sure i never catch it

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Anonymous wrote:Given all the combined age groups going on just one field for tryout, they are clearly not anticipating many prospects.

If you’re talking about Sterling this is not correct. They have 2 full turf fields, and the girls are broken out into 2 time slots. That is plenty of space.

No, talking about the Herndon schedule on their website.

Anonymous wrote:Given all the combined age groups going on just one field for tryout, they are clearly not anticipating many prospects.

If you’re talking about Sterling this is not correct. They have 2 full turf fields, and the girls are broken out into 2 time slots. That is plenty of space.