Anonymous
01/22/2026 19:08
Subject: FCPS HS Soccer Tryouts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Interesting. Other high school sports require attendance at practice and prioritizing the high school sport.
I think it’s similar to swim even some basketball, as long as your child is missing practice/games because they are attending other soccer events most coaches are okay. When they miss to other things is when coaches get upset. At least that is the consensus from our parent group across about 10 high schools.
LMAO!
No one is allowed to skip HS basketball practices for any reason other than illness.
Maybe 10 years ago. We have 1 or 2 starters that sit out after every game. But manage to play in all the games. Basketball doesn’t nearly have the overlap that swim or soccer has. Plus most top tier basketball players are going to private high school now a days
Is this public school? Our large FCPS public school coaches would not tolerate this.
Yes, FCPS school that makes states regularly. Coaches are not going to punish the best players bc they are tired and sore at the Varisty level. The three players I’m referring play a lot of basketball over the course of a year.
Anonymous
01/22/2026 17:44
Subject: FCPS HS Soccer Tryouts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Interesting. Other high school sports require attendance at practice and prioritizing the high school sport.
I think it’s similar to swim even some basketball, as long as your child is missing practice/games because they are attending other soccer events most coaches are okay. When they miss to other things is when coaches get upset. At least that is the consensus from our parent group across about 10 high schools.
LMAO!
No one is allowed to skip HS basketball practices for any reason other than illness.
Maybe 10 years ago. We have 1 or 2 starters that sit out after every game. But manage to play in all the games. Basketball doesn’t nearly have the overlap that swim or soccer has. Plus most top tier basketball players are going to private high school now a days
Is this public school? Our large FCPS public school coaches would not tolerate this.
Anonymous
01/22/2026 17:33
Subject: FCPS HS Soccer Tryouts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Interesting. Other high school sports require attendance at practice and prioritizing the high school sport.
I think it’s similar to swim even some basketball, as long as your child is missing practice/games because they are attending other soccer events most coaches are okay. When they miss to other things is when coaches get upset. At least that is the consensus from our parent group across about 10 high schools.
LMAO!
No one is allowed to skip HS basketball practices for any reason other than illness.
Maybe 10 years ago. We have 1 or 2 starters that sit out after every game. But manage to play in all the games. Basketball doesn’t nearly have the overlap that swim or soccer has. Plus most top tier basketball players are going to private high school now a days
Anonymous
01/22/2026 09:31
Subject: FCPS HS Soccer Tryouts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Interesting. Other high school sports require attendance at practice and prioritizing the high school sport.
I think it’s similar to swim even some basketball, as long as your child is missing practice/games because they are attending other soccer events most coaches are okay. When they miss to other things is when coaches get upset. At least that is the consensus from our parent group across about 10 high schools.
LMAO!
No one is allowed to skip HS basketball practices for any reason other than illness.
Anonymous
01/22/2026 07:47
Subject: FCPS HS Soccer Tryouts
Anonymous wrote:Interesting. Other high school sports require attendance at practice and prioritizing the high school sport.
I think it’s similar to swim even some basketball, as long as your child is missing practice/games because they are attending other soccer events most coaches are okay. When they miss to other things is when coaches get upset. At least that is the consensus from our parent group across about 10 high schools.
Anonymous
01/22/2026 07:19
Subject: FCPS HS Soccer Tryouts
Interesting. Other high school sports require attendance at practice and prioritizing the high school sport.
Anonymous
01/22/2026 06:28
Subject: FCPS HS Soccer Tryouts
Anonymous wrote:Do the top players typically attend all the high school practices or are they allowed to skip them for club practices?
Usually skip a lot depending on mls schedule. Even missing a few games. Some just do both every day for the love of the game. Depends on high school coach but most coaches can work it out.
Anonymous
01/21/2026 08:08
Subject: FCPS HS Soccer Tryouts
Do the top players typically attend all the high school practices or are they allowed to skip them for club practices?
Anonymous
01/20/2026 22:17
Subject: FCPS HS Soccer Tryouts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's no surprise those who are playing high level club will get a spot. When I say high level, I'm talking about MLS Next, ECNL and GA - all first team.
In the DMV, the best players don't even play for their high school team.
My team had 6 mls next players on it last year and it’s seems like the very top of the MLS next teams are playing high school. They will play every minute they can at that it why the kids who are going ACC and top division college soccer are playing both MLS next and High school.
Anonymous
01/20/2026 09:45
Subject: FCPS HS Soccer Tryouts
Anonymous wrote:It's no surprise those who are playing high level club will get a spot. When I say high level, I'm talking about MLS Next, ECNL and GA - all first team.
In the DMV, the best players don't even play for their high school team.
Anonymous
01/17/2026 10:22
Subject: FCPS HS Soccer Tryouts
Anonymous wrote:
You really think HS soccer improved your benched kid? LOL.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Will not make an impact. Only a few clubs across all of NoVa are MLS Next, and seniors can say eff it.
Who cares about the seniors. They are not trying out for JV. The freshman, sophomores, and juniors can't play HS if they are MLS. And there are plenty of MLS clubs now--way more than before as they added all the various layers.
Doing back of envelope math-- @400 high level players who are freshman, sophomores and juniors won't be in the tryout pool due to Bethesda, NVA, Alexandria, Achilles, SYC, DC United (22 per age group, 3 age groups across 6 clubs).
That certainly only helps chances for those trying out for HS.
Now of course, not all of those ineligible players are going to FFX county schools-but certainly there is a decent chunk who are given proximity....
Not sure how much of a
noticeable impact that will make given only SYC is even in Fairfax, but maybe.
Plenty of FFX players at all those clubs- Alexandria and NVA in particular but also others . Many kids who play club are not playing in the same county they go to school in . They play where they can get the best roster spot . MLS getting much harder on HS. They are now expelling kids who are getting caught sneaking HS so there may be more management of it than in the past…plus all those DCU kids now have to go to online school so they are out of FFx schools all together …
It’s all talk, I have never seen a kid get expelled from playing high school that was MLS next. My son has played varsity since he was a freshman and honestly I think it improved his game more than MLS next did his freshman and sophomore year. He was not a starter on his MLS next team but after playing high school he started and now is one of the top players on his team and will be playing division 1 soccer. He also did grow a lot 10th grade which helped as well.
Yes as a 9th and 10th grader he was playing with and against senior mls next players (along with top encl players) and was asked to play at a much higher speed than his age group was playing at MLS next. High school soccer depending on what district is much higher than people think. Good 17 and 18 players are almost all better than 14 year olds playing at dc United. Well maybe not better from a technical standpoint but it a lot of other way they are. By the time he was a junior I would say MLS next was higher than high school but there is something about high school that pushes players to find that little extra effort.
Anonymous
01/16/2026 21:37
Subject: FCPS HS Soccer Tryouts
You really think HS soccer improved your benched kid? LOL.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Will not make an impact. Only a few clubs across all of NoVa are MLS Next, and seniors can say eff it.
Who cares about the seniors. They are not trying out for JV. The freshman, sophomores, and juniors can't play HS if they are MLS. And there are plenty of MLS clubs now--way more than before as they added all the various layers.
Doing back of envelope math-- @400 high level players who are freshman, sophomores and juniors won't be in the tryout pool due to Bethesda, NVA, Alexandria, Achilles, SYC, DC United (22 per age group, 3 age groups across 6 clubs).
That certainly only helps chances for those trying out for HS.
Now of course, not all of those ineligible players are going to FFX county schools-but certainly there is a decent chunk who are given proximity....
Not sure how much of a
noticeable impact that will make given only SYC is even in Fairfax, but maybe.
Plenty of FFX players at all those clubs- Alexandria and NVA in particular but also others . Many kids who play club are not playing in the same county they go to school in . They play where they can get the best roster spot . MLS getting much harder on HS. They are now expelling kids who are getting caught sneaking HS so there may be more management of it than in the past…plus all those DCU kids now have to go to online school so they are out of FFx schools all together …
It’s all talk, I have never seen a kid get expelled from playing high school that was MLS next. My son has played varsity since he was a freshman and honestly I think it improved his game more than MLS next did his freshman and sophomore year. He was not a starter on his MLS next team but after playing high school he started and now is one of the top players on his team and will be playing division 1 soccer. He also did grow a lot 10th grade which helped as well.
Anonymous
01/16/2026 18:39
Subject: FCPS HS Soccer Tryouts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Will not make an impact. Only a few clubs across all of NoVa are MLS Next, and seniors can say eff it.
Who cares about the seniors. They are not trying out for JV. The freshman, sophomores, and juniors can't play HS if they are MLS. And there are plenty of MLS clubs now--way more than before as they added all the various layers.
Doing back of envelope math-- @400 high level players who are freshman, sophomores and juniors won't be in the tryout pool due to Bethesda, NVA, Alexandria, Achilles, SYC, DC United (22 per age group, 3 age groups across 6 clubs).
That certainly only helps chances for those trying out for HS.
Now of course, not all of those ineligible players are going to FFX county schools-but certainly there is a decent chunk who are given proximity....
Not sure how much of a
noticeable impact that will make given only SYC is even in Fairfax, but maybe.
Plenty of FFX players at all those clubs- Alexandria and NVA in particular but also others . Many kids who play club are not playing in the same county they go to school in . They play where they can get the best roster spot . MLS getting much harder on HS. They are now expelling kids who are getting caught sneaking HS so there may be more management of it than in the past…plus all those DCU kids now have to go to online school so they are out of FFx schools all together …
It’s all talk, I have never seen a kid get expelled from playing high school that was MLS next. My son has played varsity since he was a freshman and honestly I think it improved his game more than MLS next did his freshman and sophomore year. He was not a starter on his MLS next team but after playing high school he started and now is one of the top players on his team and will be playing division 1 soccer. He also did grow a lot 10th grade which helped as well.