Anonymous wrote:I don’t even see a VP listed on the DCSC website. Who intervened to put their kid on the team?

Anonymous wrote:As a parent, I wanted to share our recent experience. My son currently plays for the 2010 Boys BSC team but also tried out for the DCSC team, which we understand is considered a stronger group. The coach was very encouraging and expressed interest in my son, but also mentioned he was planning to leave the club. He shared concerns about the actions of the current Vice President.

According to the coach, one board member whose child was on the team ended up removing their child from both the team and the club after the VP reportedly intervened to place his own child on the top team. We also heard that several other families made similar decisions or voiced concerns over that situation.

The coach also mentioned that this particular team is now on its fifth coach in less than two years, which raised some red flags for us in terms of stability and continuity.

For now, we’ve decided to stay with BSC and will reevaluate our options for next year.

Anonymous wrote:As a parent, I wanted to share our recent experience. My son currently plays for the 2010 Boys BSC team but also tried out for the DCSC team, which we understand is considered a stronger group. The coach was very encouraging and expressed interest in my son, but also mentioned he was planning to leave the club. He shared concerns about the actions of the current Vice President.

According to the coach, one board member whose child was on the team ended up removing their child from both the team and the club after the VP reportedly intervened to place his own child on the top team. We also heard that several other families made similar decisions or voiced concerns over that situation.

The coach also mentioned that this particular team is now on its fifth coach in less than two years, which raised some red flags for us in terms of stability and continuity.

For now, we’ve decided to stay with BSC and will reevaluate our options for next year.

Anonymous wrote:Highly inappropriate, however, it appears that the Executive Director and Chief Experience Officer are enjoying themselves at the expense of the families.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love if more of this discussion were about people relating specific things they have experienced, good or bad, with DCSC. There are a couple of people posting over and over about this particular DCSC staff member but the fact is what I care about is how the soccer is for my kid.

Personally our experience with DCSC is that it was well organized (except for things Tom was running, which were disorganized). But others may have had different experiences and that's fine. I've also heard things about other clubs being disorganized.

There's a lot of moralizing about how an organization ought to handle a crisis and how it should be communicating and that's all well and good, but also it sure sounds like most of the posts about the CXO are written by the same person because they use the same language and sentence structure, and most of all I really care about how my kid is or isn't being served.

Meanwhile, I wouldn't encourage people to decide that doing DCSC is a mistake just because you hear the same person writing the same stuff on what amounts to a bathroom wall and just as anonymous.

You say you’re looking for honest experiences, but your defense of DCSC, while targeting Tom Walsh makes it sound like you’re speaking on behalf of club given your pattern of redirecting conversations like this.

If you’re genuinely seeking transparency, consider sending a survey to all families and then share the results publicly. That would give you and the families a true picture of how people feel about the club.

Anonymous wrote:This is mostly RL teams moving out of Virginia (where they should not have been in the first place because DC plays fall HS soccer)