Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If a coach doesn't play your kid or see him as a go-to player, you should respect that. However, it's important for kids to play with different players and coaches. Some kids fit one team better than another. That doesn't mean the club not fitting your daughter / son isn't a great fit for someone else. Kids should almost never cut and run mid-season unless there is systemic abuse or bullying. But, leaving because you found a better fit should be highly encouraged. Take advantage of other clubs' free Friday nights or ask to join a practice. Almost every coach will welcome you with open arms. If they don't - that alone is a bad sign about transparency and cliques. Bottom line - going down the wrong path is what you want to avoid. Grass isn't always greener, but there's no need to keep sending your kid into a swamp.

Do clubs actually do this? any in the Bethesda area?

What do you mean? Some clubs have open practices for any age group to join in on and sometimes they let people interested in the club come and join.

U14 and U16. First time was to play at a bigger/higher-level club than the neighborhood one. Second time was for a variety of reasons - she was recruited, smaller roster so more playing time, new team plays in higher-level tournaments and new club had more turf fields (so fewer cancelations of practices due to rain than club that has more grass fields).

Anonymous wrote:If a coach doesn't play your kid or see him as a go-to player, you should respect that. However, it's important for kids to play with different players and coaches. Some kids fit one team better than another. That doesn't mean the club not fitting your daughter / son isn't a great fit for someone else. Kids should almost never cut and run mid-season unless there is systemic abuse or bullying. But, leaving because you found a better fit should be highly encouraged. Take advantage of other clubs' free Friday nights or ask to join a practice. Almost every coach will welcome you with open arms. If they don't - that alone is a bad sign about transparency and cliques. Bottom line - going down the wrong path is what you want to avoid. Grass isn't always greener, but there's no need to keep sending your kid into a swamp.

Do clubs actually do this? any in the Bethesda area?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Playing time. Coach is great but does not do equal playing time even for ULittles.

So are you in rec currently or going back to rec?

Many clubs give decent playing time for U14 and under. It's more unusual not to give that kind of time.

If a coach doesn't play your kid or see him as a go-to player, you should respect that. However, it's important for kids to play with different players and coaches. Some kids fit one team better than another. That doesn't mean the club not fitting your daughter / son isn't a great fit for someone else. Kids should almost never cut and run mid-season unless there is systemic abuse or bullying. But, leaving because you found a better fit should be highly encouraged. Take advantage of other clubs' free Friday nights or ask to join a practice. Almost every coach will welcome you with open arms. If they don't - that alone is a bad sign about transparency and cliques. Bottom line - going down the wrong path is what you want to avoid. Grass isn't always greener, but there's no need to keep sending your kid into a swamp.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hmm. Not seeing anyone actually leave because they didn't like the league the club was playing in? So all the heated discussions on this forum about players leaving because of league considerations is not true?

We did, twice. Once as a whole team which wasn't really our individual decision but we just went with the flow. The second time is this year because we feel that the club, although considered good, doesn't develop.

SYC?

Anonymous wrote:Playing time. Coach is great but does not do equal playing time even for ULittles.

So are you in rec currently or going back to rec?

Playing time. Coach is great but does not do equal playing time even for ULittles.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hmm. Not seeing anyone actually leave because they didn't like the league the club was playing in? So all the heated discussions on this forum about players leaving because of league considerations is not true?

We did, twice. Once as a whole team which wasn't really our individual decision but we just went with the flow. The second time is this year because we feel that the club, although considered good, doesn't develop.

So you left because of the club, not the league. Point is league is not a main reason people switch clubs. People leave clubs, coaches, toxic players, but not leagues

League is important for the top few players who need to be playing against the best competition. And they do switch clubs because of league.

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Anonymous wrote:Organization is toxic and unethical and leadership is pure evil. The wins weren’t worth it.

Loudoun?

Loudoun is for the most part not the winning team. The rest is pretty spot on. I too plan on keeping moneys for services not rendered and I have my receipt paper stocked up to print those “donation” confirmations 😂

Winter U10 because kids were bullies and coach offered no support. Mid-Fall U12 because coach was abusive. Next move will be just to a more competitive team.