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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

As someone with a 16U daughter who has plenty of experience in local girls hockey, the only warning I would give is that I generally hear very, very positive things about the directors of the girls programs across the DMV. We are lucky to have such a dedicated bunch across clubs. I have rarely (maybe never?) heard anything positive about the MYHA girls director. Take that for whatever it is worth.

He develops tough, aggressive players. There. Now you’ve heard something positive.

My daughter played MYHA at 8U. There were occasionally fun, all skill level jamborees for girls from all over the DMV and he would coach. Some of these teams were filled with 5 year old LTP players, some had travel players, but it was just a good fun time for everyone. On both of the jamborees we did he screamed at the players on our team and encouraged them to run up the score on other teams. Not just other good teams - run up the score on teams where the players looked like they had only been skating for a couple months.

Parents on other teams were visibly concerned for our girls based on how he acted. The more experienced parents on our team said that was just his style but I found it gross. It wasn't a league game, wasn't playoffs - it was a free event to encourage girls to play hockey. Hearing a grown man scream at 6, 7, and 8 year olds does not make anyone in the rink on either team want to play more hockey. We moved to Reston the next season and have never looked back.

I am shocked by this - we have heard nothing but good things about this person and our personal experience is that he is extremely positive; the girls absolutely adore him. Like many coaches he yells instructions, but he’s not in any way a mean person. There is a reason that girls program is so successful.

Anyway, Tri City and Howard also have good girls programs in Montgomery County.

I'm not OP but glad to hear you have had a positive experience with him because 99% I've heard about him are more in the "highly negative" category. I've never interacted with the guy before so zero personal experience but so much bad I figured where there was smoke there was fire.

Speaking of “negativity.” Maybe if you have no personal experience you should refrain from chiming in? Keep in mind the op is moving from Boston. Ever meet boston hockey people?

My daughter only played there one year but did a lot of his clinics and morning skates, mostly between 12-14, and loved him. I’ve always admired how hard their teams play and how difficult they are to beat, even when they don’t have the best players.

That said, the girls directors at tri city and st James are great as well. Reston too, but it’s a lower level of hockey.

Op - do you know where you want to live and where work will be? This thread took a detour into one particular person, but the dmv can horrible trying complete routine activities between 3 and 8 pm. If you could give us a little more info we may be able to help you learn from our mistakes.

So when you hear 100 people say someone isn't a great dude you are just supposed to keep quiet when someone asks? Like someone else said, if enough people tell me they got food poisoning at a restaurant I don't need to have gotten it myself to warn my friends and family to avoid it.

Sorry, there is no universe in which you’ve heard that opinion from even 20 people who have actually skated for him. I bet if you asked every girl on his team this past year 95 percent would express complete adoration. You clearly are from another club and are trying to disparage a good program.

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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

As someone with a 16U daughter who has plenty of experience in local girls hockey, the only warning I would give is that I generally hear very, very positive things about the directors of the girls programs across the DMV. We are lucky to have such a dedicated bunch across clubs. I have rarely (maybe never?) heard anything positive about the MYHA girls director. Take that for whatever it is worth.

He develops tough, aggressive players. There. Now you’ve heard something positive.

My daughter played MYHA at 8U. There were occasionally fun, all skill level jamborees for girls from all over the DMV and he would coach. Some of these teams were filled with 5 year old LTP players, some had travel players, but it was just a good fun time for everyone. On both of the jamborees we did he screamed at the players on our team and encouraged them to run up the score on other teams. Not just other good teams - run up the score on teams where the players looked like they had only been skating for a couple months.

Parents on other teams were visibly concerned for our girls based on how he acted. The more experienced parents on our team said that was just his style but I found it gross. It wasn't a league game, wasn't playoffs - it was a free event to encourage girls to play hockey. Hearing a grown man scream at 6, 7, and 8 year olds does not make anyone in the rink on either team want to play more hockey. We moved to Reston the next season and have never looked back.

I am shocked by this - we have heard nothing but good things about this person and our personal experience is that he is extremely positive; the girls absolutely adore him. Like many coaches he yells instructions, but he’s not in any way a mean person. There is a reason that girls program is so successful.

Anyway, Tri City and Howard also have good girls programs in Montgomery County.

I'm not OP but glad to hear you have had a positive experience with him because 99% I've heard about him are more in the "highly negative" category. I've never interacted with the guy before so zero personal experience but so much bad I figured where there was smoke there was fire.

Speaking of “negativity.” Maybe if you have no personal experience you should refrain from chiming in? Keep in mind the op is moving from Boston. Ever meet boston hockey people?

My daughter only played there one year but did a lot of his clinics and morning skates, mostly between 12-14, and loved him. I’ve always admired how hard their teams play and how difficult they are to beat, even when they don’t have the best players.

That said, the girls directors at tri city and st James are great as well. Reston too, but it’s a lower level of hockey.

Op - do you know where you want to live and where work will be? This thread took a detour into one particular person, but the dmv can horrible trying complete routine activities between 3 and 8 pm. If you could give us a little more info we may be able to help you learn from our mistakes.

So when you hear 100 people say someone isn't a great dude you are just supposed to keep quiet when someone asks? Like someone else said, if enough people tell me they got food poisoning at a restaurant I don't need to have gotten it myself to warn my friends and family to avoid it.

Anonymous wrote:It's only the "DMV" if youre black and uneducated. Drop it unless you want to be lumped in with them.

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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

As someone with a 16U daughter who has plenty of experience in local girls hockey, the only warning I would give is that I generally hear very, very positive things about the directors of the girls programs across the DMV. We are lucky to have such a dedicated bunch across clubs. I have rarely (maybe never?) heard anything positive about the MYHA girls director. Take that for whatever it is worth.

He develops tough, aggressive players. There. Now you’ve heard something positive.

My daughter played MYHA at 8U. There were occasionally fun, all skill level jamborees for girls from all over the DMV and he would coach. Some of these teams were filled with 5 year old LTP players, some had travel players, but it was just a good fun time for everyone. On both of the jamborees we did he screamed at the players on our team and encouraged them to run up the score on other teams. Not just other good teams - run up the score on teams where the players looked like they had only been skating for a couple months.

Parents on other teams were visibly concerned for our girls based on how he acted. The more experienced parents on our team said that was just his style but I found it gross. It wasn't a league game, wasn't playoffs - it was a free event to encourage girls to play hockey. Hearing a grown man scream at 6, 7, and 8 year olds does not make anyone in the rink on either team want to play more hockey. We moved to Reston the next season and have never looked back.

I am shocked by this - we have heard nothing but good things about this person and our personal experience is that he is extremely positive; the girls absolutely adore him. Like many coaches he yells instructions, but he’s not in any way a mean person. There is a reason that girls program is so successful.

Anyway, Tri City and Howard also have good girls programs in Montgomery County.

I'm not OP but glad to hear you have had a positive experience with him because 99% I've heard about him are more in the "highly negative" category. I've never interacted with the guy before so zero personal experience but so much bad I figured where there was smoke there was fire.

Speaking of “negativity.” Maybe if you have no personal experience you should refrain from chiming in? Keep in mind the op is moving from Boston. Ever meet boston hockey people?

My daughter only played there one year but did a lot of his clinics and morning skates, mostly between 12-14, and loved him. I’ve always admired how hard their teams play and how difficult they are to beat, even when they don’t have the best players.

That said, the girls directors at tri city and st James are great as well. Reston too, but it’s a lower level of hockey.

Op - do you know where you want to live and where work will be? This thread took a detour into one particular person, but the dmv can horrible trying complete routine activities between 3 and 8 pm. If you could give us a little more info we may be able to help you learn from our mistakes.

So when you hear 100 people say someone isn't a great dude you are just supposed to keep quiet when someone asks? Like someone else said, if enough people tell me they got food poisoning at a restaurant I don't need to have gotten it myself to warn my friends and family to avoid it.

It's hard to tell who is posting which messages and replies but it reads like the same person keeps saying he's great and then attacking the 15 other people saying he's not great. Makes me think that one person is either from the MYHA program or the coach being talked about. Maybe not, but it really reads that way.

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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

As someone with a 16U daughter who has plenty of experience in local girls hockey, the only warning I would give is that I generally hear very, very positive things about the directors of the girls programs across the DMV. We are lucky to have such a dedicated bunch across clubs. I have rarely (maybe never?) heard anything positive about the MYHA girls director. Take that for whatever it is worth.

He develops tough, aggressive players. There. Now you’ve heard something positive.

My daughter played MYHA at 8U. There were occasionally fun, all skill level jamborees for girls from all over the DMV and he would coach. Some of these teams were filled with 5 year old LTP players, some had travel players, but it was just a good fun time for everyone. On both of the jamborees we did he screamed at the players on our team and encouraged them to run up the score on other teams. Not just other good teams - run up the score on teams where the players looked like they had only been skating for a couple months.

Parents on other teams were visibly concerned for our girls based on how he acted. The more experienced parents on our team said that was just his style but I found it gross. It wasn't a league game, wasn't playoffs - it was a free event to encourage girls to play hockey. Hearing a grown man scream at 6, 7, and 8 year olds does not make anyone in the rink on either team want to play more hockey. We moved to Reston the next season and have never looked back.

I am shocked by this - we have heard nothing but good things about this person and our personal experience is that he is extremely positive; the girls absolutely adore him. Like many coaches he yells instructions, but he’s not in any way a mean person. There is a reason that girls program is so successful.

Anyway, Tri City and Howard also have good girls programs in Montgomery County.

I'm not OP but glad to hear you have had a positive experience with him because 99% I've heard about him are more in the "highly negative" category. I've never interacted with the guy before so zero personal experience but so much bad I figured where there was smoke there was fire.

Speaking of “negativity.” Maybe if you have no personal experience you should refrain from chiming in? Keep in mind the op is moving from Boston. Ever meet boston hockey people?

My daughter only played there one year but did a lot of his clinics and morning skates, mostly between 12-14, and loved him. I’ve always admired how hard their teams play and how difficult they are to beat, even when they don’t have the best players.

That said, the girls directors at tri city and st James are great as well. Reston too, but it’s a lower level of hockey.

Op - do you know where you want to live and where work will be? This thread took a detour into one particular person, but the dmv can horrible trying complete routine activities between 3 and 8 pm. If you could give us a little more info we may be able to help you learn from our mistakes.

So when you hear 100 people say someone isn't a great dude you are just supposed to keep quiet when someone asks? Like someone else said, if enough people tell me they got food poisoning at a restaurant I don't need to have gotten it myself to warn my friends and family to avoid it.

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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

As someone with a 16U daughter who has plenty of experience in local girls hockey, the only warning I would give is that I generally hear very, very positive things about the directors of the girls programs across the DMV. We are lucky to have such a dedicated bunch across clubs. I have rarely (maybe never?) heard anything positive about the MYHA girls director. Take that for whatever it is worth.

He develops tough, aggressive players. There. Now you’ve heard something positive.

My daughter played MYHA at 8U. There were occasionally fun, all skill level jamborees for girls from all over the DMV and he would coach. Some of these teams were filled with 5 year old LTP players, some had travel players, but it was just a good fun time for everyone. On both of the jamborees we did he screamed at the players on our team and encouraged them to run up the score on other teams. Not just other good teams - run up the score on teams where the players looked like they had only been skating for a couple months.

Parents on other teams were visibly concerned for our girls based on how he acted. The more experienced parents on our team said that was just his style but I found it gross. It wasn't a league game, wasn't playoffs - it was a free event to encourage girls to play hockey. Hearing a grown man scream at 6, 7, and 8 year olds does not make anyone in the rink on either team want to play more hockey. We moved to Reston the next season and have never looked back.

I am shocked by this - we have heard nothing but good things about this person and our personal experience is that he is extremely positive; the girls absolutely adore him. Like many coaches he yells instructions, but he’s not in any way a mean person. There is a reason that girls program is so successful.

Anyway, Tri City and Howard also have good girls programs in Montgomery County.

I'm not OP but glad to hear you have had a positive experience with him because 99% I've heard about him are more in the "highly negative" category. I've never interacted with the guy before so zero personal experience but so much bad I figured where there was smoke there was fire.

Speaking of “negativity.” Maybe if you have no personal experience you should refrain from chiming in? Keep in mind the op is moving from Boston. Ever meet boston hockey people?

My daughter only played there one year but did a lot of his clinics and morning skates, mostly between 12-14, and loved him. I’ve always admired how hard their teams play and how difficult they are to beat, even when they don’t have the best players.

That said, the girls directors at tri city and st James are great as well. Reston too, but it’s a lower level of hockey.

Op - do you know where you want to live and where work will be? This thread took a detour into one particular person, but the dmv can horrible trying complete routine activities between 3 and 8 pm. If you could give us a little more info we may be able to help you learn from our mistakes.

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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

As someone with a 16U daughter who has plenty of experience in local girls hockey, the only warning I would give is that I generally hear very, very positive things about the directors of the girls programs across the DMV. We are lucky to have such a dedicated bunch across clubs. I have rarely (maybe never?) heard anything positive about the MYHA girls director. Take that for whatever it is worth.

He develops tough, aggressive players. There. Now you’ve heard something positive.

My daughter played MYHA at 8U. There were occasionally fun, all skill level jamborees for girls from all over the DMV and he would coach. Some of these teams were filled with 5 year old LTP players, some had travel players, but it was just a good fun time for everyone. On both of the jamborees we did he screamed at the players on our team and encouraged them to run up the score on other teams. Not just other good teams - run up the score on teams where the players looked like they had only been skating for a couple months.

Parents on other teams were visibly concerned for our girls based on how he acted. The more experienced parents on our team said that was just his style but I found it gross. It wasn't a league game, wasn't playoffs - it was a free event to encourage girls to play hockey. Hearing a grown man scream at 6, 7, and 8 year olds does not make anyone in the rink on either team want to play more hockey. We moved to Reston the next season and have never looked back.

I am shocked by this - we have heard nothing but good things about this person and our personal experience is that he is extremely positive; the girls absolutely adore him. Like many coaches he yells instructions, but he’s not in any way a mean person. There is a reason that girls program is so successful.

Anyway, Tri City and Howard also have good girls programs in Montgomery County.

I'm not OP but glad to hear you have had a positive experience with him because 99% I've heard about him are more in the "highly negative" category. I've never interacted with the guy before so zero personal experience but so much bad I figured where there was smoke there was fire.

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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

As someone with a 16U daughter who has plenty of experience in local girls hockey, the only warning I would give is that I generally hear very, very positive things about the directors of the girls programs across the DMV. We are lucky to have such a dedicated bunch across clubs. I have rarely (maybe never?) heard anything positive about the MYHA girls director. Take that for whatever it is worth.

He develops tough, aggressive players. There. Now you’ve heard something positive.

My daughter played MYHA at 8U. There were occasionally fun, all skill level jamborees for girls from all over the DMV and he would coach. Some of these teams were filled with 5 year old LTP players, some had travel players, but it was just a good fun time for everyone. On both of the jamborees we did he screamed at the players on our team and encouraged them to run up the score on other teams. Not just other good teams - run up the score on teams where the players looked like they had only been skating for a couple months.

Parents on other teams were visibly concerned for our girls based on how he acted. The more experienced parents on our team said that was just his style but I found it gross. It wasn't a league game, wasn't playoffs - it was a free event to encourage girls to play hockey. Hearing a grown man scream at 6, 7, and 8 year olds does not make anyone in the rink on either team want to play more hockey. We moved to Reston the next season and have never looked back.

I am shocked by this - we have heard nothing but good things about this person and our personal experience is that he is extremely positive; the girls absolutely adore him. Like many coaches he yells instructions, but he’s not in any way a mean person. There is a reason that girls program is so successful.

Anyway, Tri City and Howard also have good girls programs in Montgomery County.

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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

As someone with a 16U daughter who has plenty of experience in local girls hockey, the only warning I would give is that I generally hear very, very positive things about the directors of the girls programs across the DMV. We are lucky to have such a dedicated bunch across clubs. I have rarely (maybe never?) heard anything positive about the MYHA girls director. Take that for whatever it is worth.

He develops tough, aggressive players. There. Now you’ve heard something positive.

My daughter played MYHA at 8U. There were occasionally fun, all skill level jamborees for girls from all over the DMV and he would coach. Some of these teams were filled with 5 year old LTP players, some had travel players, but it was just a good fun time for everyone. On both of the jamborees we did he screamed at the players on our team and encouraged them to run up the score on other teams. Not just other good teams - run up the score on teams where the players looked like they had only been skating for a couple months.

Parents on other teams were visibly concerned for our girls based on how he acted. The more experienced parents on our team said that was just his style but I found it gross. It wasn't a league game, wasn't playoffs - it was a free event to encourage girls to play hockey. Hearing a grown man scream at 6, 7, and 8 year olds does not make anyone in the rink on either team want to play more hockey. We moved to Reston the next season and have never looked back.

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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

As someone with a 16U daughter who has plenty of experience in local girls hockey, the only warning I would give is that I generally hear very, very positive things about the directors of the girls programs across the DMV. We are lucky to have such a dedicated bunch across clubs. I have rarely (maybe never?) heard anything positive about the MYHA girls director. Take that for whatever it is worth.

He develops tough, aggressive players. There. Now you’ve heard something positive.

Anonymous wrote:Hello! We’re moving to the DMV this summer from the Northeast, and I’m trying to get a sense of where our daughters should look for girls’ travel hockey next season. We’ll be coming down in March and April for tryouts, so I’m hoping to narrow things down a bit beforehand.

We have two girls: a rising 12U (2015) and a rising 14U (2013). They’ve played A and AA at different points. They are not superstars, but solid, above-average players who work hard and love the game. Our biggest priorities are development, confidence, and keeping hockey fun. We’re not thinking about college recruiting or anything like that.

My husband played D3 “back in the day” and has always helped coach when the kids were younger, so he knows the game well, but he’s not necessarily looking to coach at this age group.

We haven’t settled on where to live yet and have some flexibility. We’re familiar with AGHF from a distance, but not as much with the DMV clubs up close. Right now we’re mostly looking at MYHA, St. James, Reston, and Potomac — maybe Nova or Loudoun too — but open to perspectives.

Would love to hear thoughts from local families on where we might focus, especially in terms of development, coaching, team culture, and just a positive experience overall for the girls.

Thanks in advance!