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Anonymous wrote:Trying to bring this thread back into a more positive focus. Does anyone know why Pride only start at 14U? I was looking at places like Jr Flyers, PTL, etc. and they all start at 12U or earlier for girls Tier 1.

Also, has there been any talk about adding a Virginia Tier 1 team? I'd have to imagine that Pride loses a lot of talent because it is just too far for people further from Rockville.

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Anonymous wrote:I wasn’t involved with this 12u team but my kid played myha girls. There is an insane amount of parent politics. Things like families getting together and threatening to leave in mass if they don’t get their way, complaining to the hockey director about line selections and then the lines are different next game, accusing other girls of bullying, 4-5 dads all assistant coaching so they can buddy up to the head coach, stuff like that. It was non stop the 3 years she played there. Exhausting.

I'll wait to pass judgement until I see the final roster. This year's team was heavy on one of his daughter's friends, but they were a strong birth year with some good players. Their 2015s....not so much. If his younger daughter and her friends make the team, that's when I'd start crying foul.

I'm all for girls playing on coed teams but when we played MYHA AA this season there was one player who was incredibly out of place....more for a LA player in a AA division. I'll give you a sneaky hint, she had the same last name as their girl program director. Funny how those coincidences happens.

Pretty rough essentially calling out a child by name. Not cool.

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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

Did they just do regular tryouts to pick the Blue and Gold 12U teams, top to Blue and next best to Gold? I've been at the rink and seen both teams a few times, and thought while Blue was definitely better there were a few Gold players who were much stronger than the weaker Blue players. I didn't know if maybe it was a major/minor split or some of the Gold players didn't want to do the coed schedule or something. Or maybe it was just that some players developed more between tryouts and the season.

They did do regular tryouts for the 12u girls teams last year. I believe if someone were to watch more than a few practices and saw games they would conclude that the girls are appropriately placed. Both teams had majors and minors, but the blue team was mostly 2014s. It is essentially a girls AAA team - they made playoffs in the CBHL UA co-ed division and in the AHF, and are on track to play co-ed AA this year (along with AAA girls tournaments). To address another poster’s comments, I don’t think MYHA is throwing extra resources at the blue team, but the families pay a bit more for, e.g., extra tournaments and the girls/families are focused on development similar to how AAA teams approach it. In terms of MYHA taking certain steps to keep the 12u girls long term, I’m not sure that’s a motivation as most of the girls will go to the Pride at 14u (or another girls’ AAA organization).



Apparently there were a lot of complaints about 12U Blue taking "friends and family" instead of the best overall players at tryouts this year.[/

Sounds like sour grapes. Decisions have to be made (with considerations like positions, etc) and the strongest team was selected. If they did indeed take friends and family who aren’t qualified for the team then I guess they won’t be as strong, which would be a very odd choice given the lofty goals of this team.

My kids are both boys so I have no insight into the girls program, but I looked at the jersey numbers that made the two 12U Girls teams and skipped around during some of the LiveBarn for their tryouts. Some of the choices seemed....questionable. I don't know these players and only watched about 10-15 minutes but some of the players I thought would be cut from both teams ended up on Blue. No idea if this is the friends/family thing being discussed, but some super weird decisions.

I just looked and the LiveBarn is password protected. Care to share the password with all of us or are you just totally making things up?

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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

Did they just do regular tryouts to pick the Blue and Gold 12U teams, top to Blue and next best to Gold? I've been at the rink and seen both teams a few times, and thought while Blue was definitely better there were a few Gold players who were much stronger than the weaker Blue players. I didn't know if maybe it was a major/minor split or some of the Gold players didn't want to do the coed schedule or something. Or maybe it was just that some players developed more between tryouts and the season.

They did do regular tryouts for the 12u girls teams last year. I believe if someone were to watch more than a few practices and saw games they would conclude that the girls are appropriately placed. Both teams had majors and minors, but the blue team was mostly 2014s. It is essentially a girls AAA team - they made playoffs in the CBHL UA co-ed division and in the AHF, and are on track to play co-ed AA this year (along with AAA girls tournaments). To address another poster’s comments, I don’t think MYHA is throwing extra resources at the blue team, but the families pay a bit more for, e.g., extra tournaments and the girls/families are focused on development similar to how AAA teams approach it. In terms of MYHA taking certain steps to keep the 12u girls long term, I’m not sure that’s a motivation as most of the girls will go to the Pride at 14u (or another girls’ AAA organization).



Apparently there were a lot of complaints about 12U Blue taking "friends and family" instead of the best overall players at tryouts this year.[/

Sounds like sour grapes. Decisions have to be made (with considerations like positions, etc) and the strongest team was selected. If they did indeed take friends and family who aren’t qualified for the team then I guess they won’t be as strong, which would be a very odd choice given the lofty goals of this team.

My kids are both boys so I have no insight into the girls program, but I looked at the jersey numbers that made the two 12U Girls teams and skipped around during some of the LiveBarn for their tryouts. Some of the choices seemed....questionable. I don't know these players and only watched about 10-15 minutes but some of the players I thought would be cut from both teams ended up on Blue. No idea if this is the friends/family thing being discussed, but some super weird decisions.

I just looked and the LiveBarn is password protected. Care to share the password with all of us or are you just totally making things up?

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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

Did they just do regular tryouts to pick the Blue and Gold 12U teams, top to Blue and next best to Gold? I've been at the rink and seen both teams a few times, and thought while Blue was definitely better there were a few Gold players who were much stronger than the weaker Blue players. I didn't know if maybe it was a major/minor split or some of the Gold players didn't want to do the coed schedule or something. Or maybe it was just that some players developed more between tryouts and the season.

They did do regular tryouts for the 12u girls teams last year. I believe if someone were to watch more than a few practices and saw games they would conclude that the girls are appropriately placed. Both teams had majors and minors, but the blue team was mostly 2014s. It is essentially a girls AAA team - they made playoffs in the CBHL UA co-ed division and in the AHF, and are on track to play co-ed AA this year (along with AAA girls tournaments). To address another poster’s comments, I don’t think MYHA is throwing extra resources at the blue team, but the families pay a bit more for, e.g., extra tournaments and the girls/families are focused on development similar to how AAA teams approach it. In terms of MYHA taking certain steps to keep the 12u girls long term, I’m not sure that’s a motivation as most of the girls will go to the Pride at 14u (or another girls’ AAA organization).



Apparently there were a lot of complaints about 12U Blue taking "friends and family" instead of the best overall players at tryouts this year.[/

Sounds like sour grapes. Decisions have to be made (with considerations like positions, etc) and the strongest team was selected. If they did indeed take friends and family who aren’t qualified for the team then I guess they won’t be as strong, which would be a very odd choice given the lofty goals of this team.

My kids are both boys so I have no insight into the girls program, but I looked at the jersey numbers that made the two 12U Girls teams and skipped around during some of the LiveBarn for their tryouts. Some of the choices seemed....questionable. I don't know these players and only watched about 10-15 minutes but some of the players I thought would be cut from both teams ended up on Blue. No idea if this is the friends/family thing being discussed, but some super weird decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:I wasn’t involved with this 12u team but my kid played myha girls. There is an insane amount of parent politics. Things like families getting together and threatening to leave in mass if they don’t get their way, complaining to the hockey director about line selections and then the lines are different next game, accusing other girls of bullying, 4-5 dads all assistant coaching so they can buddy up to the head coach, stuff like that. It was non stop the 3 years she played there. Exhausting.

I'll wait to pass judgement until I see the final roster. This year's team was heavy on one of his daughter's friends, but they were a strong birth year with some good players. Their 2015s....not so much. If his younger daughter and her friends make the team, that's when I'd start crying foul.

I'm all for girls playing on coed teams but when we played MYHA AA this season there was one player who was incredibly out of place....more for a LA player in a AA division. I'll give you a sneaky hint, she had the same last name as their girl program director. Funny how those coincidences happens.

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Anonymous wrote:I wasn’t involved with this 12u team but my kid played myha girls. There is an insane amount of parent politics. Things like families getting together and threatening to leave in mass if they don’t get their way, complaining to the hockey director about line selections and then the lines are different next game, accusing other girls of bullying, 4-5 dads all assistant coaching so they can buddy up to the head coach, stuff like that. It was non stop the 3 years she played there. Exhausting.

I'll wait to pass judgement until I see the final roster. This year's team was heavy on one of his daughter's friends, but they were a strong birth year with some good players. Their 2015s....not so much. If his younger daughter and her friends make the team, that's when I'd start crying foul.

Anonymous wrote:I wasn’t involved with this 12u team but my kid played myha girls. There is an insane amount of parent politics. Things like families getting together and threatening to leave in mass if they don’t get their way, complaining to the hockey director about line selections and then the lines are different next game, accusing other girls of bullying, 4-5 dads all assistant coaching so they can buddy up to the head coach, stuff like that. It was non stop the 3 years she played there. Exhausting.

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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

Did they just do regular tryouts to pick the Blue and Gold 12U teams, top to Blue and next best to Gold? I've been at the rink and seen both teams a few times, and thought while Blue was definitely better there were a few Gold players who were much stronger than the weaker Blue players. I didn't know if maybe it was a major/minor split or some of the Gold players didn't want to do the coed schedule or something. Or maybe it was just that some players developed more between tryouts and the season.

They did do regular tryouts for the 12u girls teams last year. I believe if someone were to watch more than a few practices and saw games they would conclude that the girls are appropriately placed. Both teams had majors and minors, but the blue team was mostly 2014s. It is essentially a girls AAA team - they made playoffs in the CBHL UA co-ed division and in the AHF, and are on track to play co-ed AA this year (along with AAA girls tournaments). To address another poster’s comments, I don’t think MYHA is throwing extra resources at the blue team, but the families pay a bit more for, e.g., extra tournaments and the girls/families are focused on development similar to how AAA teams approach it. In terms of MYHA taking certain steps to keep the 12u girls long term, I’m not sure that’s a motivation as most of the girls will go to the Pride at 14u (or another girls’ AAA organization).



Apparently there were a lot of complaints about 12U Blue taking "friends and family" instead of the best overall players at tryouts this year.[/

Sounds like sour grapes. Decisions have to be made (with considerations like positions, etc) and the strongest team was selected. If they did indeed take friends and family who aren’t qualified for the team then I guess they won’t be as strong, which would be a very odd choice given the lofty goals of this team.

My kids are both boys so I have no insight into the girls program, but I looked at the jersey numbers that made the two 12U Girls teams and skipped around during some of the LiveBarn for their tryouts. Some of the choices seemed....questionable. I don't know these players and only watched about 10-15 minutes but some of the players I thought would be cut from both teams ended up on Blue. No idea if this is the friends/family thing being discussed, but some super weird decisions.

This has got to be a troll. It makes no sense to profess a strong opinion like this based on such little knowledge. Anyway, the girls hockey community is very small, especially at any given age. All these girls were known quantities coming in. Selections for any competitive hockey team are based on many factors such as base skills, positions needed, compete, IQ, size, work ethic, attitude, level previously played and level the team will play at next year, team cohesion, and on and on. I know this community and there were likely only a couple close calls. In any event, it’s great there is such passion about girls hockey in the DMV!

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Anonymous wrote:MYHA has two 12U and 14U girls teams at each age, so that probably helps if coming down to tryout.

Their 12U Blue team is a wagon…👀

Did they just do regular tryouts to pick the Blue and Gold 12U teams, top to Blue and next best to Gold? I've been at the rink and seen both teams a few times, and thought while Blue was definitely better there were a few Gold players who were much stronger than the weaker Blue players. I didn't know if maybe it was a major/minor split or some of the Gold players didn't want to do the coed schedule or something. Or maybe it was just that some players developed more between tryouts and the season.

They did do regular tryouts for the 12u girls teams last year. I believe if someone were to watch more than a few practices and saw games they would conclude that the girls are appropriately placed. Both teams had majors and minors, but the blue team was mostly 2014s. It is essentially a girls AAA team - they made playoffs in the CBHL UA co-ed division and in the AHF, and are on track to play co-ed AA this year (along with AAA girls tournaments). To address another poster’s comments, I don’t think MYHA is throwing extra resources at the blue team, but the families pay a bit more for, e.g., extra tournaments and the girls/families are focused on development similar to how AAA teams approach it. In terms of MYHA taking certain steps to keep the 12u girls long term, I’m not sure that’s a motivation as most of the girls will go to the Pride at 14u (or another girls’ AAA organization).



Apparently there were a lot of complaints about 12U Blue taking "friends and family" instead of the best overall players at tryouts this year.[/

Sounds like sour grapes. Decisions have to be made (with considerations like positions, etc) and the strongest team was selected. If they did indeed take friends and family who aren’t qualified for the team then I guess they won’t be as strong, which would be a very odd choice given the lofty goals of this team.

My kids are both boys so I have no insight into the girls program, but I looked at the jersey numbers that made the two 12U Girls teams and skipped around during some of the LiveBarn for their tryouts. Some of the choices seemed....questionable. I don't know these players and only watched about 10-15 minutes but some of the players I thought would be cut from both teams ended up on Blue. No idea if this is the friends/family thing being discussed, but some super weird decisions.