Girls Development Academy

C.A.M. said:
* I won't have the problem with the sub rules since the girls will be like the boys and come in on a U12-U11 combo team that allows unlimited subs starting next season. They should be able to understand what they need to do by U14 with two seasons under their belts. It's this transition group I worry about.

I agree, rosters shouldn't be more than 18 if the true aim is development. The DPL is there to cover for the injuries, defections, etc...

To me the issue with the DA isn't the rules everyone complains about. It's the fact it is brand new and everyone has to make rapid adjustments and break habits that have been ingrained since these girls were 5 and 6 years old. Keepers and defenders are being taught to play out the back now. Mids have to have a better understanding of how the game works and not just send the ball long or carry the ball up when they can't necessarily beat these players anymore. Forwards actually have to make multiple type of runs. Outside backs are now wing backs that travel up and down the field and have to know how far they can go or they will get caught out of position. It's just more sophisticated than what they are used too and it takes time to learn and get good at.
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My player's ECNL team played that way since U13. If this is the first time you are seeing this it sounds like you had the wrong coach. At this point you are just going to have to see for yourself. GDA is not going to create a unicorn and even my player's roommate, who plays on her country's full WNT, played high school soccer. Heck one of her teammates who got her first USWNT cap recently didn't even play ECNL until her junior year of high school!

You will see...
 
SocalPapa said:
I can't and perhaps you are right that any improvement would have been more recent. I predict that 2020 grad I was talking about will have a great college career though.
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Hey I don't doubt your belief in this player. I can tell you that the most successful SoCal players so far in my player's recruiting class weren't the ones ranked the highest as sophomores. I think that my player wasn't ranked in the top 75 nationally and wasn't in the top 15 in SoCal by TDS but she made the Best XI freshman list and was all-conference her first two seasons and played close to as many or more minutes these past two season than all of the players ahead of her on the list combined. Not to mention that she played every minute of the NCAA tournament including 210 minutes in the College Cup.

The success players have is intersection of their talent, their individual drive, their preparation and their support group. Lot's of moving parts there and plenty of players think that getting committed to a school is the end goal. The ones that are stars beyond club are the ones that realize getting committed is only the beginning.

Good luck to you and your player.
 
MarkM said:
Ally Prisock from USC. First team all Pac-12 as a sophomore.
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Incorrect. She was not all PAC 12 as a sophomore. I will give you that one although she never plays well against the Bruins. I have a great shot of her getting nutmegged by my player's roommate the year that they won the natty.
 
MakeAPlay said:
Hey I don't doubt your belief in this player. I can tell you that the most successful SoCal players so far in my player's recruiting class weren't the ones ranked the highest as sophomores. I think that my player wasn't ranked in the top 75 nationally and wasn't in the top 15 in SoCal by TDS but she made the Best XI freshman list and was all-conference her first two seasons and played close to as many or more minutes these past two season than all of the players ahead of her on the list combined. Not to mention that she played every minute of the NCAA tournament including 210 minutes in the College Cup.

The success players have is intersection of their talent, their individual drive, their preparation and their support group. Lot's of moving parts there and plenty of players think that getting committed to a school is the end goal. The ones that are stars beyond club are the ones that realize getting committed is only the beginning.

Good luck to you and your player.
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I know it's early, but all signs point to college success as of now: GNT caps and carrying a team to a top ranking in GDA, plus a 4.6 GPA, sideline-to-sideline reach, vision and good ball control (not Fleming good, but good). We'll see. I've been both right (Macario) and wrong (Malatskey) in my predictions before.
 
MakeAPlay said:
Incorrect. She was not all PAC 12 as a sophomore. I will give you that one although she never plays well against the Bruins. I have a great shot of her getting nutmegged by my player's roommate the year that they won the natty.
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I think I went to the same HS as your kid but many decades earlier.
 
MakeAPlay said:
Incorrect. She was not all PAC 12 as a sophomore. I will give you that one although she never plays well against the Bruins. I have a great shot of her getting nutmegged by my player's roommate the year that they won the natty.
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Oops, she was a first-team pac 12 as a junior.

Nice comment though. Keep up the class.
 
MakeAPlay said:
My player's ECNL team played that way since U13. If this is the first time you are seeing this it sounds like you had the wrong coach. At this point you are just going to have to see for yourself. GDA is not going to create a unicorn and even my player's roommate, who plays on her country's full WNT, played high school soccer. Heck one of her teammates who got her first USWNT cap recently didn't even play ECNL until her junior year of high school!

You will see...
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The problem isn't that my girl hasn't seen it or done it. It. Her teammates haven't seen it or been made to do it before. This was a brand new team and she was the 3rd person invited on the team. The coaching staff watched her play a lot. We assumed (incorrectly) that he was building a team in that mold with players of the same mind states and similar skill sets that would fit in on the DA style. Crazy thing is, when they actually do it, they are so damn good at it, but they aren't "smart" enough to understand that is what they do best.

Here in the Southwest Division 03 age group I'm seeing varying levels of success with the girls playing possession based soccer based on building out the back.

Doing it great: Beach (best at connecting and moving without the ball), West Coast Surf (best at spreading you out),
Doing it well when they want to: Blues, Legends (both have such good damn athletes they often go direct early until they have a lead and then they play possession), SC Del Sol
Doing it ok or worse: Everyone else.

The big thing is so many keepers on the girls side have only been big punters that they aren't confident playing out the back yet either. A lot of teams have a hard time connecting in the final third and the mids hold on to the ball too long and don't see the runs the wings and forwards are making or should make.

Even more, very few teams are using the wing backs. The teams with the best records are not. They stay solid with the four in the back and defensive mid not usually joining up on offense. This helps the record, but the girls aren't learning how to connect the defense to the offense fluidly. Only us and Blues have wing backs. Blues has better athletes and soccer players so that is working out a lot better for them than us.
 
MarkM said:
I got her year wrong. Big deal. Not sure why you have to throw some dig at a random player for no reason because you were wrong.
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I have been throwing digs at her university for 26 years. I'm not going to change now. If you don't want to catch any flak don't jump into the fray.
 
Kicker4Life said:
What teams/Coaches defected to Beach? Their Top Coaches (Sal & Diego) and players any the younger age groups went to Galaxy which has lead to their more recent rise at the ‘o4,05 and 06 age groups. Despite Quigs moving over to boys (who arguably is and has been SBF/Galaxy’s best Coach).
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In addition to the SBF group led by Shelly Marsden (which became the Beach Redondo group) perhaps you are fogetting the entire Exiles group led by Joe Flanagan when the Exiles split a year before the remaining club "merged" with LAG (when a few more went to Beach). I think you and I might differ on who were the best coaches at Exiles. There are a lot of Fram or other coaches as well who migrated to Beach, for various reasons, in the last 4-8 years.

All credit for their growth, they have become a strong/elite club.
 
MakeAPlay said:
Incorrect. She was not all PAC 12 as a sophomore. I will give you that one although she never plays well against the Bruins. I have a great shot of her getting nutmegged by my player's roommate the year that they won the natty.
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Not true at all. She played really well as a Freshman when SC went to UCLA and beat them for there for the first time. She also played well vs them in Stub Hub when UCLA beat them in the last conference game when SC won the National Championship. She played well this last season too, but the outside backs simply didn't have enough speed to keep up with them and she and the other CB had too much ground to cover. Game still went down to the wire. Playing UCLA is a terrorizing situation for a CB on any team that doesn't drop deep and cover.
 
Confirmation just came from our club on the 2003 DPL Pilot. Says the best 03s will play in the 02/03 combo and the rest in the Pilot.

All the same rules for subs, no high school, 4 days a week, etc... as the 02/03 combo group. Still going to the Winter and Summer Showcases to play vs the Pilot teams from the Frontier Division.
 
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