Anonymous
10/17/2016 16:57
Subject: VYS Soccer - better or worse?
My son participated in this program in the past. The Fall and Spring high school rec. training was free! I believe we had around 3 - 4 teams per gender participating with 2 professional trainers. The Winter high school training was around $50 per player and it was open to rec. and travel players. It was a great training for goalkeepers and field players as well! Eddie, Liz and Margaret did great job coordinating and running the rec. program. I understand why people are unhappy now with VYS. It was a great club to have our kids in a few years ago. For some reason the entire dynamic has changed.
Anonymous
10/17/2016 13:21
Subject: VYS Soccer - better or worse?
Anonymous wrote:Why did VYS stop providing free training for the high school rec players? Also, is VYS going to provide high school training with the hs coaches this coming Winter? Parents are complaining that our directors are not giving enough attention to our rec. players, especially in the high school age group. Its a pretty steep fee for below mediocre services.
Did a lot of people take advantage of that? Was it ever free? I always thought it was paid.
What do people get out of that? I can't imagine more than 1-2 VYS rec players making a high school team, so what's the point of the extra training? Why that instead of recreational indoor?
Anonymous
10/17/2016 11:14
Subject: VYS Soccer - better or worse?
Why did VYS stop providing free training for the high school rec players? Also, is VYS going to provide high school training with the hs coaches this coming Winter? Parents are complaining that our directors are not giving enough attention to our rec. players, especially in the high school age group. Its a pretty steep fee for below mediocre services.
Anonymous
10/12/2016 17:03
Subject: VYS Soccer - better or worse?
Crossover (we are not VYS) is what propelled my kiddo out of rec and into travel. It was only then, when he played against other 'serious' 8-year-olds, that I felt like Travel would be a good option for him. It was a great testing ground, in other words.
Anonymous
10/12/2016 14:16
Subject: VYS Soccer - better or worse?
The VYS Crossover was an excellent program! Earned the NSCAA Best Practices Award at the 2015 NSCAA Convention - http://www.vys.org/home/857816.html
Anonymous
10/11/2016 13:26
Subject: Re:VYS Soccer - better or worse?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yes, I was asking the Cougar parent about their travel teams. U8s and All-Stars came up....Speaking of U8s, crossover started this past weekend. I don't think VYS entered any teams. Is that true?
I don't think VYS has entered any teams in a crossover league since spring 2015.
The games were frankly the weak part of the program. Every club had a different approach. Alexandria had selected the 12 best U8s in the whole club and exempted them from their regular rec games. IFC didn't really even have a rec program, so they were basically an unofficial U8 travel team. VYS took the first 48 kids who signed up -- no tryouts at all -- and split them into random teams. The training was all skills-oriented, not game situations. That was all very noble and probably the "right" way to do it, but when you take a random group of kids that has no idea how to play with a goalkeeper or function as a unit, have them play their regular league games early Saturday, then have them drive down to Alexandria later that day to play with teammates whose names they don't even know ... well, you can imagine how those games went.
In the Gunney era, they had some sort of interim training program. This is what they have this year:
http://vys-youthdevelopment.squarespace.com/
I see at least one Cougars team at the new South County Columbus Day tournament: https://events.gotsport.com/events/results.aspx?EventID=54705&Gender=Boys&Age=11
I thought this was a great program. Who cares if VYS didn't do as well at the games. All the kids got pre-travel practice. What they have now is nothing like that opportunity.
Anonymous
10/11/2016 13:22
Subject: Re:VYS Soccer - better or worse?
Anonymous wrote:Our did our Vienna teams do in tournaments this weekend?
I saw that the 02 Boys won something at SAC. Most of the younger age groups for boys didn't play in Columbus Day tournaments.
Anonymous
10/11/2016 10:59
Subject: Re:VYS Soccer - better or worse?
Our did our Vienna teams do in tournaments this weekend?
Anonymous
09/26/2016 10:48
Subject: Re:VYS Soccer - better or worse?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yes, I was asking the Cougar parent about their travel teams. U8s and All-Stars came up....Speaking of U8s, crossover started this past weekend. I don't think VYS entered any teams. Is that true?
I don't think VYS has entered any teams in a crossover league since spring 2015.
The games were frankly the weak part of the program. Every club had a different approach. Alexandria had selected the 12 best U8s in the whole club and exempted them from their regular rec games. IFC didn't really even have a rec program, so they were basically an unofficial U8 travel team. VYS took the first 48 kids who signed up -- no tryouts at all -- and split them into random teams. The training was all skills-oriented, not game situations. That was all very noble and probably the "right" way to do it, but when you take a random group of kids that has no idea how to play with a goalkeeper or function as a unit, have them play their regular league games early Saturday, then have them drive down to Alexandria later that day to play with teammates whose names they don't even know ... well, you can imagine how those games went.
In the Gunney era, they had some sort of interim training program. This is what they have this year:
http://vys-youthdevelopment.squarespace.com/
I see at least one Cougars team at the new South County Columbus Day tournament: https://events.gotsport.com/events/results.aspx?EventID=54705&Gender=Boys&Age=11
Looks like another Cougars team participating in the Alexandria's Columbus Day tournament. https://events.gotsport.com/events/teamlist.aspx?eventid=53886
Anonymous
09/26/2016 10:19
Subject: Re:VYS Soccer - better or worse?
Anonymous wrote:Yes, I was asking the Cougar parent about their travel teams. U8s and All-Stars came up....Speaking of U8s, crossover started this past weekend. I don't think VYS entered any teams. Is that true?
Gotcha, I was speaking to my friend this weekend who has a kid on a Cougars travel team. She said that until now it has been 1 preseason scrimmage fest and 1 tournament per season. She mentioned that the coach prefers to have extra training versus multiple tournaments per season . She said that they currently enjoy the soccer/life balance that they have with the team.
Anonymous
09/26/2016 10:12
Subject: Re:VYS Soccer - better or worse?
Anonymous wrote:Yes, I was asking the Cougar parent about their travel teams. U8s and All-Stars came up....Speaking of U8s, crossover started this past weekend. I don't think VYS entered any teams. Is that true?
I don't think VYS has entered any teams in a crossover league since spring 2015.
The games were frankly the weak part of the program. Every club had a different approach. Alexandria had selected the 12 best U8s in the whole club and exempted them from their regular rec games. IFC didn't really even have a rec program, so they were basically an unofficial U8 travel team. VYS took the first 48 kids who signed up -- no tryouts at all -- and split them into random teams. The training was all skills-oriented, not game situations. That was all very noble and probably the "right" way to do it, but when you take a random group of kids that has no idea how to play with a goalkeeper or function as a unit, have them play their regular league games early Saturday, then have them drive down to Alexandria later that day to play with teammates whose names they don't even know ... well, you can imagine how those games went.
In the Gunney era, they had some sort of interim training program. This is what they have this year:
http://vys-youthdevelopment.squarespace.com/
I see at least one Cougars team at the new South County Columbus Day tournament: https://events.gotsport.com/events/results.aspx?EventID=54705&Gender=Boys&Age=11
Anonymous
09/26/2016 08:45
Subject: Re:VYS Soccer - better or worse?
Anonymous wrote:Does VYS really charge extra for the all-star practices? How much?
We are no longer with VYS, but one of my kids played all stars last fall. There was a small cost for the tournament registration and the uniform. It was very reasonable, maybe $50 per family. There was no separate cost associated with the training sessions.
Anonymous
09/26/2016 08:00
Subject: VYS Soccer - better or worse?
Is this allstar game a Rec thing?
Why don't people realize that anything to do with soccer is about money. Oh let's make a c-d-e travel team to give parents hope that their kid is gonna make it. More $$. Oh you don't want to pay for your kid to be on the E travel team? He/she is so good though lets do an allstar game for the Rec team, oh by the way, you're gonna have to pay more some how.
Smh.
Oh we have a coach with an accent that's an extra 300 a season hahhaa
Why don't people realize that anything to do with soccer is about money. Oh let's make a c-d-e travel team to give parents hope that their kid is gonna make it. More $$. Oh you don't want to pay for your kid to be on the E travel team? He/she is so good though lets do an allstar game for the Rec team, oh by the way, you're gonna have to pay more some how.
Smh.
Oh we have a coach with an accent that's an extra 300 a season hahhaa
Anonymous
09/26/2016 07:56
Subject: Re:VYS Soccer - better or worse?
Anonymous wrote:Does VYS really charge extra for the all-star practices? How much?
They didn't as of last fall. My child hasn't played soccer since then, so I can't speak to last spring.
Anonymous
09/26/2016 07:31
Subject: Re:VYS Soccer - better or worse?
Does VYS really charge extra for the all-star practices? How much?