Arlington has 4-5 travel teams in those age groups, if your child didn't make it or you believe your child joining the club for any program will give them a boost in next years tryouts, you're mistaken.

Recommendation would be find another club that that your DC can join for travel or have them join rec and see how good they are after all good players have joined travel or adp-like programs. If your child is intermediate level, they will stand out in rec.

Not trolling. Have a 15 yo DS and have been through many additional trainings, the differentiator for players moving up in travel is the player's interest in continuing. The parent's interesti. Their DC playing travel soccer and checkbook can only take them so far.

yes. ADP is not to develop brand new rec players with no skills.

ADP is to develop intermediate players who may have the interest and/or the ability to move up to a travel team. That's why it ends after U11... if they don't have the interest and/or ability by the U12 year, the hill gets too steep to climb for Arlington Soccer to invest resources in it anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if the second tryout is identical to the first? Just want to prepare DS for what to expect, if possible.

Yes it is. Here are some tips - listen to the coaches by looking at them in the eye when they're talking, get the ball when it goes out of bounds, don't show off with big kicks unless you can control where it goes - they want team players not showoffs, show you can be a good teammate by giving feedback or communicating to "teammates". Goodluck!

Thank you! I told my son to be a good listener and that the coaches probably wanted to see the boys hustling and showing that they really wanted to be there, in addition to soccer skills (which are kind of hard to demonstrate on those little playing areas).

Psst! Those little playing areas are great for demonstrating soccer skills -- either you have the footskills to control the ball and receive/pass it accurately, or you don't. Smaller area = less margin for error, and the coaches want to see what players make of that.

Quoted PP here, maybe it was just the group my son was in, but they were basically just moving around the mini-field in a cluster and kicking the ball out of bounds every 5 seconds! In theory my son would've tried to position somewhere else on the field for better spacing (he was pretty solid in that regard in rec) but I think because it was a tryout he was wanting to get contact with the ball (which, if everyone is doing that results in the maddening cluster of kids). That's a good point about some ballhandling skills being more visible in that regard, though!

So you all are trying to join a development program that uses tryouts to see which players already have the skills the development program is supposed to develop?

Games don’t start for a few weeks. Chill. Why does it matter what team your kid is on. It’s not travel.

Holy cow is this level of delay in team assignments normal? We just moved back from another state and I can’t believe the email saying we will hear in the next two weeks. Like, September?!? Is Arlington/ADP always this disorganized?

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Who is trolling and how?

I doubt the field coordinator is reading this thread.

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Who is trolling and how?

Trolls trolling trolls

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Anonymous wrote:I looked back in my email from when my daughter joined ADP and the first note with team info was from mid August.

Bumping this thread to ask about scheduling. Does not hearing anything until August include the date/time of the pool practice? If I could even get that on the calendar it would help so much with scheduling activities for my other kids.

Field coordinator for ADP here--if you can tell me what days and times you prefer I can adjust the schedules. There is still time.

This was so nice field coordinator!

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Anonymous wrote:I looked back in my email from when my daughter joined ADP and the first note with team info was from mid August.

Bumping this thread to ask about scheduling. Does not hearing anything until August include the date/time of the pool practice? If I could even get that on the calendar it would help so much with scheduling activities for my other kids.

Field coordinator for ADP here--if you can tell me what days and times you prefer I can adjust the schedules. There is still time.

Mondays and Wednesdays would be amazing! Everything else seems to be Tuesday/Thursday.

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Anonymous wrote:I looked back in my email from when my daughter joined ADP and the first note with team info was from mid August.

Bumping this thread to ask about scheduling. Does not hearing anything until August include the date/time of the pool practice? If I could even get that on the calendar it would help so much with scheduling activities for my other kids.

Field coordinator for ADP here--if you can tell me what days and times you prefer I can adjust the schedules. There is still time.

Overachiever! Could just assume Mondays or Wednesdays 4:30pm as a starting point?

Anonymous wrote:I looked back in my email from when my daughter joined ADP and the first note with team info was from mid August.

Bumping this thread to ask about scheduling. Does not hearing anything until August include the date/time of the pool practice? If I could even get that on the calendar it would help so much with scheduling activities for my other kids.

For the 2013 boys, they said they were thinking of adding two teams based on turnout from older ages. Tryouts finished on Monday for all ages. Has anyone who has rejected get invited in a second round? My ds loves to play, did pretty well at the tryout, but didn’t make it. It was a tough message to tell him. Thanks

I looked back in my email from when my daughter joined ADP and the first note with team info was from mid August.