Anonymous wrote:To OP, I'd say look at BRYC and McLean clubs for your daughter. I would hope BRYC would not have parents coaching travel team's unless of course they were qualified. BRYC did produce Mia Hamm after all...My kid plays for McLean, but getting ready to move to Bethesda's MLSNext Academy team. I'm racking my head on how I'm gonna handle that commute during rush hour getting from McLean to Rockville. Will be so much easier when kid can drive.

FALSE BRYC did not produce Mia Hamm...... Looking into it she was a military brat that moved base to base growing up only came to BRYC senior year in HS . she was not a BRYC developed kid . Just a final stop for a year of youth soccer before college.

To OP, I'd say look at BRYC and McLean clubs for your daughter. I would hope BRYC would not have parents coaching travel team's unless of course they were qualified. BRYC did produce Mia Hamm after all...My kid plays for McLean, but getting ready to move to Bethesda's MLSNext Academy team. I'm racking my head on how I'm gonna handle that commute during rush hour getting from McLean to Rockville. Will be so much easier when kid can drive.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't want to hijack OP's thread, but we seem to live in the same area and my DD is the same age.

Do people in Fairfax/Burke really travel to Arlington and McLean for 9yo soccer? I cannot imagine doing that multiple times a week during rush hour for practices.

Yes there are people that do this and its ridiculous. In the years i've seen youth soccer, there was only one kid I thought had so much natural talent that they should have travelled to Arlington or McLean (back when it was good) instead of staying the immediate Fairfax/Burke area. Unfortunately, that kid's parent had no idea how good the kid played, knew nothing about soccer, and I wasn't close enough to them to offer that advice. Also, parents here are so neurotic that the parent would probably think I was trying to sabotage the kid (not true, my kid played on the top team with theirs). I'm pretty sure that kid is still playing on an average team, getting average coaching which is a damn shame.

Not ridiculous if the coaching and player pool is a better fit. Why stay local for lesser?

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to hijack OP's thread, but we seem to live in the same area and my DD is the same age.

Do people in Fairfax/Burke really travel to Arlington and McLean for 9yo soccer? I cannot imagine doing that multiple times a week during rush hour for practices.

Burke - I assume no. Parts of Fairfax pretty close to McLean and even Arlington so that could happen.

I don't know why FCV is being mentioned. I would say FCV is better suited for older girls. McLean or Arlington but I would edge to McLean.

Anonymous wrote:The question from the original poster was specifically the U10 (2011) girls team. We played or saw many of the local U10 teams - VYS, McLean, PWSI, Arlington, Loudoun - and they lost to or were not as good as those local teams. Just stating facts. Wasn’t speaking to the whole BRYC organization just the younger girls teams. If somebody has another option that is fine to. Was just providing what I saw

I just looked at your schedule. I'm genuinely curious as to how your team did overall (no judgments, no agenda, etc). I compared our schedules, and we had a lot of direct overlap with common opponents.

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to hijack OP's thread, but we seem to live in the same area and my DD is the same age.

Do people in Fairfax/Burke really travel to Arlington and McLean for 9yo soccer? I cannot imagine doing that multiple times a week during rush hour for practices.

Yes there are people that do this and its ridiculous. In the years i've seen youth soccer, there was only one kid I thought had so much natural talent that they should have travelled to Arlington or McLean (back when it was good) instead of staying the immediate Fairfax/Burke area. Unfortunately, that kid's parent had no idea how good the kid played, knew nothing about soccer, and I wasn't close enough to them to offer that advice. Also, parents here are so neurotic that the parent would probably think I was trying to sabotage the kid (not true, my kid played on the top team with theirs). I'm pretty sure that kid is still playing on an average team, getting average coaching which is a damn shame.

yes. there are people that drive from prince william co. to arlington as well.

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to hijack OP's thread, but we seem to live in the same area and my DD is the same age.

Do people in Fairfax/Burke really travel to Arlington and McLean for 9yo soccer? I cannot imagine doing that multiple times a week during rush hour for practices.

there are tons of clubs that aren't BRYC (not saying they're good or bad, just that there are options you don't like them) and don't require that much driving. SYC is probably the biggest, but there are a ton of others

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to hijack OP's thread, but we seem to live in the same area and my DD is the same age.

Do people in Fairfax/Burke really travel to Arlington and McLean for 9yo soccer? I cannot imagine doing that multiple times a week during rush hour for practices.

To get away from BRYC they do..

I don't want to hijack OP's thread, but we seem to live in the same area and my DD is the same age.

Do people in Fairfax/Burke really travel to Arlington and McLean for 9yo soccer? I cannot imagine doing that multiple times a week during rush hour for practices.

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Anonymous wrote:^ Have they lost a bunch of games to NCSL teams?

YES, they did!

Saturday, November 21, 2020
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These were forfeits.

The question from the original poster was specifically the U10 (2011) girls team. We played or saw many of the local U10 teams - VYS, McLean, PWSI, Arlington, Loudoun - and they lost to or were not as good as those local teams. Just stating facts. Wasn’t speaking to the whole BRYC organization just the younger girls teams. If somebody has another option that is fine to. Was just providing what I saw

Anonymous wrote:Getting back to the original's posters question - The younger BRYC girls teams (U9/U10/U11) did not do well this year. BRYC might have been good back in the day. We played their U10 team this year in NCSL and tournaments, and they were not very good at all, and did not seem well coached. We beat them 11-0 and 12-0 in the last tournament of the year if that helps you gauge their competitiveness against other local travel programs.

https://events.gotsport.com/events/results.aspx?EventID=81423&GroupID=990426&Gender=Girls&Age=10

Well you also beat Gunston 19-0, so perhaps this wasn't the right level tournament for your Bethesda team to enter? The Gunston BRYC game score is competitive, and the Baltimore games are all forfeits so irrelevant.

If you're willing to share, would be interesting to hear your competitiveness against the rest of the NCSL teams in posters are suggesting in this thread around the BRYC area. I see VYS, PWSI, and LMVSC as games against Bethesda in the link below, were those similar scores to the BRYC game or were they more competitive games? Actually not trying to be sarcastic here, but the original question is comparison of BRYC competitiveness/development vs other local fairfax clubs to consider, so if you played 3 or 4 of them, then it might help the original poster narrow down their list of clubs to call first.

https://ncsl.demosphere-secure.com/_element_display/#%2Fscripts%2Frunisa.dll%3FM2%3Agp%3A725865.4530%3A80738%2BElements%2FDisplay%2BE%2B47116%2BTeam%2F%2B98484121%2B98944978

Anonymous wrote:^ Have they lost a bunch of games to NCSL teams?

YES, they did!

Saturday, November 21, 2020
CHANTILLY YOUTH CYA '07B PU 1-0 BRYC ELITE ACADEMY U14 ECNL
BRYC ELITE ACADEMY U14 ECNL 0-1 SYA CARDINALS 2007B WHITE
Sunday, November 22, 2020
BRYC ELITE ACADEMY U14 ECNL 0-1 HERNDON CENTRAL RED