I've never heard of high school teams only getting a quarter field for practices. Maybe once a week if space is really tight, but everywhere we have been, the older teams get 1/3 or 1/2 a field.

We are at another club but I would not put up with any of this crap! Rec teams and travel teams mixed together on one field is just way too chaotic. Kids riding bikes and scooters on the field during practice? 50+ pickup players lurking around.

Serious yikes to this whole situation. Sorry Herndon families.

Attempted murder? what?

Anonymous wrote:All my dd's' practices are at Bready and they put a large sign out telling people the fields are in use.

I've heard from other parents that Arrowbrooke park is completely overrun with random people on the field during practices. Not sure why Herndon admin allows that to happen.

I heard they only put the girls practices at Bready only and monitor Bready for pickup players for safety reasons, but the boys teams are expected to just put up with the chaos at Arrowbrook and Hutchinson.

I have no problem with rec teams getting field space---after travel teams have been assigned sufficient practice space which did NOT happen this fall-- and the rec teams should not be intermixed with the travel teams on the same field at the same time. Its not fair to the families paying travel fees to have that much chaos. Rec teams should be with other rec teams so they can scrimmage each other.

Anonymous wrote:I will chime in as a new family to Herndon at the older ages. It’s been the worst experience we’ve encountered in all our years of travel soccer. Agree with the above about fields. Also, lots of broken promises. Crappy tournaments. Poor coaching. Coach doesn’t communicate with players. I don’t understand. I did research before we signed and people seemed happy.

My HS son's team shares the field with Herndon rec teams (and the rec teams are given the same amount of field space as the travel teams?), and it is completely chaotic, with 2 travel teams, 2 rec teams and with 50+ teen and adult pickup players lurking around the field as well, trying to play in the goals and whatever space isn't being used at that exact minute. The rec teams seem to bring a lot of younger siblings with them, who scooter and bike through the practices, throw footballs in the middle of the field, etc. I have never seen club practices like this and I have 4 kids. It doesn't seem safe to have so many people wandering around the fields.

His team only gets 25% of a field each night. How are they ever supposed to scrimmage or work on things with such a small amount of space?

ts not fair to expect the coaches to spend the whole practice kicking people off the field. I'm honestly shocked Herndon allows this to continue after the attempted murder/shooting at Hutchinson last spring. I expected orderly practices, not three ring circuses.

All my dd's' practices are at Bready and they put a large sign out telling people the fields are in use.

I've heard from other parents that Arrowbrooke park is completely overrun with random people on the field during practices. Not sure why Herndon admin allows that to happen.

I will chime in as a new family to Herndon at the older ages. It’s been the worst experience we’ve encountered in all our years of travel soccer. Agree with the above about fields. Also, lots of broken promises. Crappy tournaments. Poor coaching. Coach doesn’t communicate with players. I don’t understand. I did research before we signed and people seemed happy.

And, we still don't have the uniform we ordered from Capelli in June!!!!

Decided to put my complaint in the herndon thread as a warning for future customers


We are at Herndon, this is my kid's first year and last year there. The practice space is so small! Four high school teams sharing one field at every practice. I don't understand what we are paying for. The fields are also overrun with pickup players even during practices. This has not happened in practices at any club since u9.

They put the 2012 team up in u15 for a total bracket of four teams.

Anonymous wrote:The Viva Tournament is even more pathetic than suspected.

https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/45817/teams?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bgroup%5D=show-all-groups&showall=&commit=Search

Here is only 1 girls team signed up for U14. If this happens other tournaments do they refund them or have them play against older girls? Cannot be choice of team?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its really unusual for HYS to have SO many teams in the same tournament (that isn't Dulles).

Some of the third and second boys teams managed to not get stuck with it (including JLC's third team).

I'm fine with my kid participating for the extra games but absolutely this should not count as a paid-for tournament. No way.

This reminds me of all the years that Herndon mandated that every travel player had to attend the summer soccer camp that was run by the TD's personal company and that he profited off of from every registration.

Was that nadir?

Is that the same as the GFR summer camp?

How did some teams manage to avoid playing in this fake tournament?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its really unusual for HYS to have SO many teams in the same tournament (that isn't Dulles).

Some of the third and second boys teams managed to not get stuck with it (including JLC's third team).

I'm fine with my kid participating for the extra games but absolutely this should not count as a paid-for tournament. No way.

This reminds me of all the years that Herndon mandated that every travel player had to attend the summer soccer camp that was run by the TD's personal company and that he profited off of from every registration.

Was that nadir?

No - current TD who's been there for a number of years

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its really unusual for HYS to have SO many teams in the same tournament (that isn't Dulles).

Some of the third and second boys teams managed to not get stuck with it (including JLC's third team).

I'm fine with my kid participating for the extra games but absolutely this should not count as a paid-for tournament. No way.

This reminds me of all the years that Herndon mandated that every travel player had to attend the summer soccer camp that was run by the TD's personal company and that he profited off of from every registration.

Was that nadir?