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Anonymous wrote:Bumping this for Valor mom on the other thread can find her home to talk about her club here instead of where it's not relevant. We can also continue to trash Valor here, too.

Trashing Valor and CYA seem to be full force on this and other threads. Hmmmm

No clue about CYA but as a valor parent with a pulse I can tell you the club is doing these kids no favors. This is just a money grab and it is obvious when you play for them.

I know someone from Herndon's Travel program that said last spring during tryouts they had about 200 Valor kids try out for Herndon. That says alot.

To be fair, its a huge program. IF valor has 50 teams x 12? on average players a team, then a third of Valor kids shopping around every season is high, but not insanely so.

My kids play bryc rec and we had a player leave for Valor from my son's rec team, play for a year, and then come back to rec this fall. He was an average player in the SFL league (did not start). He didn't get any better, in that whole year of practicing with Valor. We thought he would have improved a lot. It was surprising that he stayed the same as rec kids who were barely playing.

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Anonymous wrote:Bumping this for Valor mom on the other thread can find her home to talk about her club here instead of where it's not relevant. We can also continue to trash Valor here, too.

Trashing Valor and CYA seem to be full force on this and other threads. Hmmmm

No clue about CYA but as a valor parent with a pulse I can tell you the club is doing these kids no favors. This is just a money grab and it is obvious when you play for them.

I know someone from Herndon's Travel program that said last spring during tryouts they had about 200 Valor kids try out for Herndon. That says alot.

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Anonymous wrote:Bumping this for Valor mom on the other thread can find her home to talk about her club here instead of where it's not relevant. We can also continue to trash Valor here, too.

Trashing Valor and CYA seem to be full force on this and other threads. Hmmmm

No clue about CYA but as a valor parent with a pulse I can tell you the club is doing these kids no favors. This is just a money grab and it is obvious when you play for them.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at Valor for my 2011 DD (rising U14). Pros/cons? Anyone familiar with that team?

Not a Valor parent, but their top team is in first place in the VA North ECNL-RL, but I have heard that the coach and several top players are going to SYC for next year.

That stinks for them. Valor mom should know that all this success coincided with adding a couple BRYC players.

absolutely incorrect. Core of girls were SYA legacy.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at Valor for my 2011 DD (rising U14). Pros/cons? Anyone familiar with that team?

Not a Valor parent, but their top team is in first place in the VA North ECNL-RL, but I have heard that the coach and several top players are going to SYC for next year.

That stinks for them. Valor mom should know that all this success coincided with adding a couple BRYC players.

absolutely incorrect. Core of girls were SYA legacy.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at Valor for my 2011 DD (rising U14). Pros/cons? Anyone familiar with that team?

Not a Valor parent, but their top team is in first place in the VA North ECNL-RL, but I have heard that the coach and several top players are going to SYC for next year.

You're definitely a Valor parent. Let's be honest, the coach is ok and lucked out with a pretty good group of players and can compete. But look at the facts, he was a coach at CYA years and never did anything notable there. These girls won a lot of games 9v9 and is doing fine 11v11, but put it into perspective.

I'm really not a Valor parent. I just have a 2011G so I know a little about their 2011 girls RL team.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at Valor for my 2011 DD (rising U14). Pros/cons? Anyone familiar with that team?

Not a Valor parent, but their top team is in first place in the VA North ECNL-RL, but I have heard that the coach and several top players are going to SYC for next year.

You're definitely a Valor parent. Let's be honest, the coach is ok and lucked out with a pretty good group of players and can compete. But look at the facts, he was a coach at CYA years and never did anything notable there. These girls won a lot of games 9v9 and is doing fine 11v11, but put it into perspective.

What's the perspective? Because if that's all you're aware about him, you clearly don't really know him.

Coach is all about development. Often loses players he spent years developing and does it with a smile. He coached the 10s as well which went on to higher level teams. He is a class act and in coaching for the right reasons, player development, which gets lost in the soccer scene in this area.

My view on him as well, he's coached at a number of clubs around but in the last few has been at CYA and Valor. He's coached a great group for the past few years in the 2011 girls currently and the 2010's before a bunch left for FCV.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at Valor for my 2011 DD (rising U14). Pros/cons? Anyone familiar with that team?

Not a Valor parent, but their top team is in first place in the VA North ECNL-RL, but I have heard that the coach and several top players are going to SYC for next year.

You're definitely a Valor parent. Let's be honest, the coach is ok and lucked out with a pretty good group of players and can compete. But look at the facts, he was a coach at CYA years and never did anything notable there. These girls won a lot of games 9v9 and is doing fine 11v11, but put it into perspective.

What's the perspective? Because if that's all you're aware about him, you clearly don't really know him.

Coach is all about development. Often loses players he spent years developing and does it with a smile. He coached the 10s as well which went on to higher level teams. He is a class act and in coaching for the right reasons, player development, which gets lost in the soccer scene in this area.

Anonymous wrote:Bumping this for Valor mom on the other thread can find her home to talk about her club here instead of where it's not relevant. We can also continue to trash Valor here, too.

Trashing Valor and CYA seem to be full force on this and other threads. Hmmmm

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at Valor for my 2011 DD (rising U14). Pros/cons? Anyone familiar with that team?

Not a Valor parent, but their top team is in first place in the VA North ECNL-RL, but I have heard that the coach and several top players are going to SYC for next year.

You're definitely a Valor parent. Let's be honest, the coach is ok and lucked out with a pretty good group of players and can compete. But look at the facts, he was a coach at CYA years and never did anything notable there. These girls won a lot of games 9v9 and is doing fine 11v11, but put it into perspective.

What's the perspective? Because if that's all you're aware about him, you clearly don't really know him.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at Valor for my 2011 DD (rising U14). Pros/cons? Anyone familiar with that team?

Not a Valor parent, but their top team is in first place in the VA North ECNL-RL, but I have heard that the coach and several top players are going to SYC for next year.

You're definitely a Valor parent. Let's be honest, the coach is ok and lucked out with a pretty good group of players and can compete. But look at the facts, he was a coach at CYA years and never did anything notable there. These girls won a lot of games 9v9 and is doing fine 11v11, but put it into perspective.

Anonymous wrote:It seems they often move up the coach of the second team to the top team, then the coach of teh third team to the second team, and then scrounge up some barely qualified person for the vacant third team position.

Yikes.

It seems they often move up the coach of the second team to the top team, then the coach of teh third team to the second team, and then scrounge up some barely qualified person for the vacant third team position.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at Valor for my 2011 DD (rising U14). Pros/cons? Anyone familiar with that team?

my recollection is the girls were one the best in valor. But coach is leaving and taking a good portion of girls with him

Any word on who will be coaching the team next year?