Anonymous wrote:The HYS Goalkeeper Coach, Luke Stoothoff, would like to invite all Goalkeepers 2013 - 2007 that are trying out for the 2025-26 travel soccer season to a Goalkeeper specific training session at Bready on Wednesday, April 30th. All goalkeepers registered for 2025-2026 Tryouts are encouraged to attend.

Goalkeeper-specific TRYOUTS
Date: Wednesday, April 30
Location: Bready Park
Times:
2013 - 2011 Boys & Girls (Rising U13 to U15) 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm at Bready Park
2010 - 2007 Boys & Girls (Rising U16 to U19) 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm at Bready Park

So how will this work with it being so late after tryouts? Are they going to wait to give offers to GK until after this happens?

The HYS Goalkeeper Coach, Luke Stoothoff, would like to invite all Goalkeepers 2013 - 2007 that are trying out for the 2025-26 travel soccer season to a Goalkeeper specific training session at Bready on Wednesday, April 30th. All goalkeepers registered for 2025-2026 Tryouts are encouraged to attend.

Goalkeeper-specific TRYOUTS
Date: Wednesday, April 30
Location: Bready Park
Times:
2013 - 2011 Boys & Girls (Rising U13 to U15) 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm at Bready Park
2010 - 2007 Boys & Girls (Rising U16 to U19) 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm at Bready Park

Regarding tryouts. HYS had asked the players to wear black. The usual practice shirts are red. Players were given numbers to wear.

Anonymous wrote:The black team coach (first team) for 2012 boys is Coach Fede, we posted earlier that my son had an enjoyable experience on his team. I don't know the second team coach, Abdi. The third team coach Kevin coached a friend's son's 2010 team this last year and they liked him.

My daughter has played for Coach Abdi for several years. I've seen her grow in both skill and confidence during that time. He gets along very well with the players.

16:47 - I am not a 2011 parent. I have older boys who have played for GT and MS for several years.

Both posts can be true at the same time.

Two families on the same team can have very different experiences and opinions of the coaching.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks to all the current parents sharing feedback.

Is anyone familiar with the 2011 boys age group? At the second tryout yesterday based on all the Herndon practice jerseys it looked like there would be few if any open spots for new players on either of the teams. Will they move current players up or down or cut kids who have played on the red team for new players? Have they sent out any offers yet?

His current team is toxic and ds needs a fresh start so just trying to gage the chances. The field he was on last night was almost all not wearing Herndon shirts which seemed like a bad indicator to me.

If you're looking to get away from a toxic environment, you won't find it with the HYS 2011 coaches. GT plays to favorites and MS is a screamer who will berate your child for funsies.

Also, if you're kid is on the field with all of the non-Herndon jerseys, he is not being seriously considered. This is how all of the HYS tryouts go.

Wow. Herndon Boys 2011 parents seem to have pretty divergent opinions. This was almost simultaneously posted on the "Possession" thread:

Using the "direct" style of play, it may be useful at a younger age and may work but as the children age it will become very hard because they have not developed the skill of controlling and possession. For example, my son has been playing with Herndon 2011 for about 4 years. When his team first started playing travel, it was hard, and they lost many games because their coach encouraged them to play with possession. Although at first, they lost many games, this has developed them into one of the best teams in the area and created a great possession team that dominates most teams they play. Through the many years, I have witnessed many teams who used to dominate them in the early years, now become the teams that are being dominated. I just wanted to share that because that has been our experience with the possession game vs the direct game.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks to all the current parents sharing feedback.

Is anyone familiar with the 2011 boys age group? At the second tryout yesterday based on all the Herndon practice jerseys it looked like there would be few if any open spots for new players on either of the teams. Will they move current players up or down or cut kids who have played on the red team for new players? Have they sent out any offers yet?

His current team is toxic and ds needs a fresh start so just trying to gage the chances. The field he was on last night was almost all not wearing Herndon shirts which seemed like a bad indicator to me.

If you're looking to get away from a toxic environment, you won't find it with the HYS 2011 coaches. GT plays to favorites and MS is a screamer who will berate your child for funsies.

Also, if you're kid is on the field with all of the non-Herndon jerseys, he is not being seriously considered. This is how all of the HYS tryouts go.

Thanks. So your 2011 boy is leaving?
Maybe we will try Burke or VSA.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks to all the current parents sharing feedback.

Is anyone familiar with the 2011 boys age group? At the second tryout yesterday based on all the Herndon practice jerseys it looked like there would be few if any open spots for new players on either of the teams. Will they move current players up or down or cut kids who have played on the red team for new players? Have they sent out any offers yet?

His current team is toxic and ds needs a fresh start so just trying to gage the chances. The field he was on last night was almost all not wearing Herndon shirts which seemed like a bad indicator to me.

If you're looking to get away from a toxic environment, you won't find it with the HYS 2011 coaches. GT plays to favorites and MS is a screamer who will berate your child for funsies.

Also, if you're kid is on the field with all of the non-Herndon jerseys, he is not being seriously considered. This is how all of the HYS tryouts go.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have insight into 2014 boys? Are the top team spots filled by now? Are most of the boys from that team returning or are there spots up for grabs?

Pretty sure there are spots in the 2014 boys group. They have started giving offers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, I've seen clubs out all the new players together so they could then sort them into the "existing" groups as the tryout progresses.

This was the last night of tryouts though.

There are always tryout opportunities later in the spring and summer

At the 2013 boys tryout last night it seemed like every field had existing players

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, I've seen clubs out all the new players together so they could then sort them into the "existing" groups as the tryout progresses.

This was the last night of tryouts though.

To be fair, I've seen clubs out all the new players together so they could then sort them into the "existing" groups as the tryout progresses.

Its generally not a good sign if your kid is on a tryout field without any current players but I am not familiar with the coaches in that age group so they might have a different approach. Good luck to your son.