I wish she would delete her posts. I feel bad for her kids.

Pass the popcorn…

So did Ms. Meade swipe left or right?

The kids enjoy the travel tournaments and having more than one practice a week. They like having the same teammates (mostly) year to year. You don't get that with rec. What is sad about kids having fun playing a sport they like? Is it just sad because it seems like a lot of money to you? Obviously all these people paying to be on these teams don't mind the price.

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Anonymous wrote:SLHS is only about a 15 minute drive to Sully Highlands and only 20 minutes to EC Lawrence.
There are Valor players coming all the way from Loudoun and Springfield that I know of. There are probably some who are making longer trips.

Driving that much every week for a low level club is bonkers.

You are lucky if you don't have to drive that far. For us where we play our home games may be 7 or 8 minutes away but practice can easily be 15 mins away. And this is our 'local ' club. In a lot of these clubs you never know where your particular team will get assigned practice space

15 min one way is normal.
45 min in traffic one way for ecnl-rl or ncsl is crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:Valor doesn’t have good coaches, a cohesive development strategy, or talent. Otherwise, it’s a standard travel club taking advantage of all the wealth in the area and delusional u9-u12 parents.

Only the parents convinced their average kid belongs on the top team are delusional. There are plenty of regular people who don't care which team their kid ends up on, other than wanting it to be with other kids at the appropriate skill level. Travel soccer doesn't exist only to serve the best of the best. One of my kids was on a 'bad' 3rd team a few years ago, and they still had a better than .500 regular season record in the 6th division where they competed, and there were two more divisions below that.
Hate to break it to you, but if your kid is the next Messi then you aren't on DC Urban Mom talking about local soccer clubs.

It used to. Rec was good enough for most. Travel leagues are seemingly larger than rec.

I did not play soccer growing up, but I remember that the kids who play travel soccer were all really good. I actually thought that was still the case until my kid was in second grade. He started to look pretty good at soccer and other people were noticing it. I thought you had to get like recruited to the travel soccer team lol. It was eye-opening to realize these clubs are making four, five, six teams so they can take everyone’s money.

Same, I thought being on a travel team was special. Seeing clubs 5 teams deep and going to tournaments with so many brackets and levels is just sad. It’s all about money - while claiming to be nonprofits

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Anonymous wrote:Valor doesn’t have good coaches, a cohesive development strategy, or talent. Otherwise, it’s a standard travel club taking advantage of all the wealth in the area and delusional u9-u12 parents.

Only the parents convinced their average kid belongs on the top team are delusional. There are plenty of regular people who don't care which team their kid ends up on, other than wanting it to be with other kids at the appropriate skill level. Travel soccer doesn't exist only to serve the best of the best. One of my kids was on a 'bad' 3rd team a few years ago, and they still had a better than .500 regular season record in the 6th division where they competed, and there were two more divisions below that.
Hate to break it to you, but if your kid is the next Messi then you aren't on DC Urban Mom talking about local soccer clubs.

It used to. Rec was good enough for most. Travel leagues are seemingly larger than rec.

For many travel parents the rec experience wasn't enough at the early u Littles. They were the best of the best at that time at least at their club age level so they tried out and made a travel team. At some point that changed and they no longer were a top top player but they were on the travel train already and once you're on its hard to get the kid to hop off

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Anonymous wrote:Valor doesn’t have good coaches, a cohesive development strategy, or talent. Otherwise, it’s a standard travel club taking advantage of all the wealth in the area and delusional u9-u12 parents.

Only the parents convinced their average kid belongs on the top team are delusional. There are plenty of regular people who don't care which team their kid ends up on, other than wanting it to be with other kids at the appropriate skill level. Travel soccer doesn't exist only to serve the best of the best. One of my kids was on a 'bad' 3rd team a few years ago, and they still had a better than .500 regular season record in the 6th division where they competed, and there were two more divisions below that.
Hate to break it to you, but if your kid is the next Messi then you aren't on DC Urban Mom talking about local soccer clubs.

It used to. Rec was good enough for most. Travel leagues are seemingly larger than rec.

I did not play soccer growing up, but I remember that the kids who play travel soccer were all really good. I actually thought that was still the case until my kid was in second grade. He started to look pretty good at soccer and other people were noticing it. I thought you had to get like recruited to the travel soccer team lol. It was eye-opening to realize these clubs are making four, five, six teams so they can take everyone’s money.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Valor doesn’t have good coaches, a cohesive development strategy, or talent. Otherwise, it’s a standard travel club taking advantage of all the wealth in the area and delusional u9-u12 parents.

Only the parents convinced their average kid belongs on the top team are delusional. There are plenty of regular people who don't care which team their kid ends up on, other than wanting it to be with other kids at the appropriate skill level. Travel soccer doesn't exist only to serve the best of the best. One of my kids was on a 'bad' 3rd team a few years ago, and they still had a better than .500 regular season record in the 6th division where they competed, and there were two more divisions below that.
Hate to break it to you, but if your kid is the next Messi then you aren't on DC Urban Mom talking about local soccer clubs.

It used to. Rec was good enough for most. Travel leagues are seemingly larger than rec.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SLHS is only about a 15 minute drive to Sully Highlands and only 20 minutes to EC Lawrence.
There are Valor players coming all the way from Loudoun and Springfield that I know of. There are probably some who are making longer trips.

Driving that much every week for a low level club is bonkers.

You are lucky if you don't have to drive that far. For us where we play our home games may be 7 or 8 minutes away but practice can easily be 15 mins away. And this is our 'local ' club. In a lot of these clubs you never know where your particular team will get assigned practice space

Anonymous wrote:Valor doesn’t have good coaches, a cohesive development strategy, or talent. Otherwise, it’s a standard travel club taking advantage of all the wealth in the area and delusional u9-u12 parents.

😂
Oh the haters are persistent

The only delusional parents are those who are angry their kids couldn’t make it to higher teams at the “standard travel club”

But flame on. Makes you feel so tough behind your keyboards

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Anonymous wrote:Did both Lewis brother coaches quit and go to VSA or just KL? No loss, just curious.

EL is still around. He has been recruiting for U9 Girls and is a coach for the age group.

Wow, they had to be blindsided by his Kyle’s departure as he was listed as one of the lead coaches when they first released it. That’s not cool at all. I get that he’s looking out for himself, but leaving without even giving heads up…

His mom is one of the administrators which makes the blindside crazy.

The mom got both her kids their first jobs as Valor coaches? LOL!

So their mom got them jobs and you're still paying 3k for your kid to play at a subpar club? sick burn.

Anonymous wrote:Valor doesn’t have good coaches, a cohesive development strategy, or talent. Otherwise, it’s a standard travel club taking advantage of all the wealth in the area and delusional u9-u12 parents.

Only the parents convinced their average kid belongs on the top team are delusional. There are plenty of regular people who don't care which team their kid ends up on, other than wanting it to be with other kids at the appropriate skill level. Travel soccer doesn't exist only to serve the best of the best. One of my kids was on a 'bad' 3rd team a few years ago, and they still had a better than .500 regular season record in the 6th division where they competed, and there were two more divisions below that.
Hate to break it to you, but if your kid is the next Messi then you aren't on DC Urban Mom talking about local soccer clubs.

Anonymous wrote:Ms. Meade, you single?

Oh god!
Don't encourage the crazy. She will come back with ten photos of her DH and their Knot wedding page from 2002.

Anonymous wrote:Valor doesn’t have good coaches, a cohesive development strategy, or talent. Otherwise, it’s a standard travel club taking advantage of all the wealth in the area and delusional u9-u12 parents.

FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE UNDERSTANDS!

Ec lawrence park to south lakes hs is 30 min right now at 2:19 pm with no traffic. Its far!