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Anonymous wrote:Ugh it is good to be back practicing and being disappointed again with the program.

If you were disappointed and wanted something different there are at least 10+ other clubs in the vicinity to choose from. You either chose to stay or are a troll. Why complain about it when the season hasn't even started yet?

Tried out for other teams and offered at lower teams. Returned to Valor just because commute is better

Anonymous wrote:Ugh it is good to be back practicing and being disappointed again with the program.

If you were disappointed and wanted something different there are at least 10+ other clubs in the vicinity to choose from. You either chose to stay or are a troll. Why complain about it when the season hasn't even started yet?

Ugh it is good to be back practicing and being disappointed again with the program.

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Anonymous wrote:Valor 2011G Gold playing in the ECNL-RL playoffs this weekend …

That's the teamwhere the coach is leaving dor SYC and taking the 6-7 best players along?

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Yes.

And 2 are going to VA Union 2011G so that Valor team won’t be the same anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:U10 start 1/week in July and then 2/week in August.

Weird, must be new. I don't remember them starting until 1st week sept.

Pre-ECNL season starts in August as do some of the early tournaments. Most of the younger age groups have started their "in-season" practices in early August (not sure about the older age groups). Non-mandatory practices usually run through the summer starting in late June/early July and have been that way for at least 3-4 years.

Anonymous wrote:U10 start 1/week in July and then 2/week in August.

Weird, must be new. I don't remember them starting until 1st week sept.

U10 start 1/week in July and then 2/week in August.

Anonymous wrote:When does the season start for valor? Do they practice at all during the summer? Interested in the girls side specifically.

My 2014 girl starts next week with once a week practices for summer.

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Anonymous wrote:Valor sponsored Pokemon tournament? This explains a lot.

Your mom dances for ones, but we don't judge.

My mom died in 1995.

I’m sorry for your loss.

When does the season start for valor? Do they practice at all during the summer? Interested in the girls side specifically.

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Anonymous wrote:Valor sponsored Pokemon tournament? This explains a lot.

Your mom dances for ones, but we don't judge.

My mom died in 1995.

Noisse!

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Anonymous wrote:We spent one year at Valor and decided to leave due to a multitude of reasons. Coach didn’t really care honestly and the feedback what terrible. I think maybe inexperience was huge factor. He missed practice sessions and tournaments. Late to start the practice for the most part where the kids were just running around.

There are some folks on here criticizing the parents that left, but we had our kid ID’d at a few other clubs. Needless to say we made it on a number 1 team in a equal division. Go figure. If the parents are happy playing in these lower team with zero expectations than good for them. To me it’s not worth the money. My kids performance has significantly improved just by interacting with better performing players.

Sounds like a bad coach, but just pointing out that none of Valor’s number 1 teams play in NCSL past U10 where the divisions aren’t numbered and scores are not kept. Like other clubs with ECNL-RL or ECNL, only the second and below teams play in NCSL from U11 on up. If you are in fact talking about a U9 or U10 team, I think there’s a lot of guessing and politics that go into placing kids on teams. Coaches get scared to move kids down because their parents can be a nightmare to deal with and/or they leave the club. Moving to a new club is almost necessary in order to move up in a lot of cases.

Agree. It was. The coach was very young and inexperienced. The leadership was largely culpable as well for the training and monitoring of the staff.

Among other issues: communication needed major work; there was minimal encouragement or guidance given to the team; most of the kids were pigeon-holed in positions with little rotation; with the misplaced recognition and observations of some preferential treatment for certain players/parents… that was ultimately the end of it.
We did see about half of the folks move on to other clubs and get on significantly better teams.

Of the few parents that decided to stay, roll the dice for 2nd or even 3rd year had not advanced. This was due to a lot of what you had mentioned. Some were fine because they had really little expectation. A good 90% of the kids were just re-phased into the same team for the next year.

With all these issues, there was no value or opportunity in awarding another commitment.

Overall, the team demonstrated very little improvement. We had vastly more losses than wins 1/4. Fundamentally, the weaknesses in technical performance on the team needed major work: slow acceleration, speed and endurance were an important factor; defensively, it was very poor; half the kids didn’t hustle and waited for the ball a lot of times. You could see this as passive coaching or internal to the player’s commitment on the field.

To sum it up, our experience here was terrible. Since then, being on a Pre-Academy team has been great. The coach, parents and players are all committed. There is a high level of expectation and performance already present. It’s been such a day and night transformation.

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Anonymous wrote:Valor sponsored Pokemon tournament? This explains a lot.

Your mom dances for ones, but we don't judge.

oh man you really gotta work on your trash talk

Anonymous wrote:Valor sponsored Pokemon tournament? This explains a lot.

Your mom dances for ones, but we don't judge.