Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone doing Alexandria, LMVSC or Gunston tryouts?

Gonna check out LMVSC on Monday. Not really interested in the other 2 clubs.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone doing Alexandria, LMVSC or Gunston tryouts?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are taking 2011 kids at travel tryouts????
They are 6.
How the heck does a 6 year old even know what they like or don't like?

I thought it was bad enough that the birth year thing means that 7 year old (old) first graders have to try out for next fall.

I have older kids and their skill level and interest at 6 or 7 has almost nothing in common with what they like or are good at now (4th and 6th grades).
And yet parents are signing up to schlep their 6 year olds to soccer 4 days per week?
Egads, i think we have lost our collective minds.

No, nobody is looking at or taking 6 year olds for travel for travel soccer. There might be the occasional January 2010 kid who "plays up" because they missed the cutoff over a couple of days or a few weeks.

Who are you? ...So you know for a fact that all those girl play-ups are all January 2010s in 1G??? Doubt it.

There are surely some of them who are 6 year olds with summer/fall 2010 bdays who are in kindergarten right now and did the tryouts.
The travel race starts earlier and earlier.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are taking 2011 kids at travel tryouts????
They are 6.
How the heck does a 6 year old even know what they like or don't like?

I thought it was bad enough that the birth year thing means that 7 year old (old) first graders have to try out for next fall.

I have older kids and their skill level and interest at 6 or 7 has almost nothing in common with what they like or are good at now (4th and 6th grades).
And yet parents are signing up to schlep their 6 year olds to soccer 4 days per week?
Egads, i think we have lost our collective minds.

No, nobody is looking at or taking 6 year olds for travel for travel soccer. There might be the occasional January 2010 kid who "plays up" because they missed the cutoff over a couple of days or a few weeks.

Anonymous wrote:They are taking 2011 kids at travel tryouts????
They are 6.
How the heck does a 6 year old even know what they like or don't like?

I thought it was bad enough that the birth year thing means that 7 year old (old) first graders have to try out for next fall.

I have older kids and their skill level and interest at 6 or 7 has almost nothing in common with what they like or are good at now (4th and 6th grades).
And yet parents are signing up to schlep their 6 year olds to soccer 4 days per week?
Egads, i think we have lost our collective minds.

Anonymous wrote:Man, ASA sounds really messed up.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are taking 2011 kids at travel tryouts????
They are 6.
How the heck does a 6 year old even know what they like or don't like?

I thought it was bad enough that the birth year thing means that 7 year old (old) first graders have to try out for next fall.

I have older kids and their skill level and interest at 6 or 7 has almost nothing in common with what they like or are good at now (4th and 6th grades).
And yet parents are signing up to schlep their 6 year olds to soccer 4 days per week?
Egads, i think we have lost our collective minds.

Stop the insanity by calling travel parents crazy or obsessive. It is something my kid is good at for the time being, and it keeps him off TV and Computer screens, and he has made some great friends. As long as he keeps up with his homework and reads every night, no issues with them burning off their endless energy into something they want to do.

Anonymous wrote:They are taking 2011 kids at travel tryouts????
They are 6.
How the heck does a 6 year old even know what they like or don't like?

I thought it was bad enough that the birth year thing means that 7 year old (old) first graders have to try out for next fall.

I have older kids and their skill level and interest at 6 or 7 has almost nothing in common with what they like or are good at now (4th and 6th grades).
And yet parents are signing up to schlep their 6 year olds to soccer 4 days per week?
Egads, i think we have lost our collective minds.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^Arl is notorious for fielding "too many" girls teams per age group. There have been several years where they were begging girls to play - dropping by the elementary schools during tryout weeks and such. So it doesn't surprise me.

+1

Most Clubs will only take girls that our travel level and form fewer teams if the # of those aren't there.

Arlington instead determines 6 teams and then fills them with anyone.

These 1st graders (only 2nd next year) would be better off playing Rec with their teammates and maybe a day of Arl academy training.

However, every Arlington resident just tries to keep up with the Joneses and word has gotten out in recent years that of you start them a full year early--you can get them into a higher team the following year when they drop back down.

This is why 7year olds now do travel in this County.

+2
100% correct. Our tryout was full of very young? girls, some who had no business on travel (kindergarten/1G)
Because 2010s are not allowed to play on silver or gold (due to some league rule), they put all the 2010s on higher teams this year

That is completely nuts. Making $$$$ on parents' neuroticism.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^Arl is notorious for fielding "too many" girls teams per age group. There have been several years where they were begging girls to play - dropping by the elementary schools during tryout weeks and such. So it doesn't surprise me.

+1

Most Clubs will only take girls that our travel level and form fewer teams if the # of those aren't there.

Arlington instead determines 6 teams and then fills them with anyone.

These 1st graders (only 2nd next year) would be better off playing Rec with their teammates and maybe a day of Arl academy training.

However, every Arlington resident just tries to keep up with the Joneses and word has gotten out in recent years that of you start them a full year early--you can get them into a higher team the following year when they drop back down.

This is why 7year olds now do travel in this County.

+2
100% correct. Our tryout was full of very young? girls, some who had no business on travel (kindergarten/1G)
Because 2010s are not allowed to play on silver or gold (due to some league rule), they put all the 2010s on higher teams this year