GDA winter training

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GDA mandates 4 training sessions per week during the "10 month" yearly season. How are Northeast GDA clubs handling winter training? Will they still have 4 training sessions per week during Dec, Jan, Feb?

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GDA mandates 4 training sessions per week during the "10 month" yearly season. How are Northeast GDA clubs handling winter training? Will they still have 4 training sessions per week during Dec, Jan, Feb?

Lol ask folks at the Revs how well that works and is enforced by USSF. Supposedly Oakwood GDA is only doing 3/week and 2/week in winter.

In general there's very little activity after the December national event until mid January. Whatever clubs can do will completely depend in their access to indoor facilities (and if they don't own their own they'll pay top dollar for it) and what the weather does to try and go outside (we haven't been very luck with snow the last few winters ). Ask your club what they plan to do

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I don't care to get into the sanity of it all because that is a choice that the individual families are making for themselves but when are you trolls going to get through your thick skull that a DA level kid is totally immersed in soccer. It's a job for them. If you don't want your kid to be that involved in a sport, that is your prerogative, but please stop with this silliness of mocking the schedule. At a minimum all DA level players should be aspiring to play in college and if you think that a 4 day a week schedule is something unusual or too much at that level you are seriously mistaken.

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Lol ask folks at the Revs how well that works and is enforced by USSF. Supposedly Oakwood GDA is only doing 3/week and 2/week in winter.

In general there's very little activity after the December national event until mid January. Whatever clubs can do will completely depend in their access to indoor facilities (and if they don't own their own they'll pay top dollar for it) and what the weather does to try and go outside (we haven't been very luck with snow the last few winters ). Ask your club what they plan to do

This speaks to a serious lack of commitment on the part of the players then, is there wonder why the BDA in this area predominantly produces low level D1 and D3 level players?

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This speaks to a serious lack of commitment on the part of the players then, is there wonder why the BDA in this area predominantly produces low level D1 and D3 level players?

The club decides on practices not the players. Winter in NE Doesn't help

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The club decides on practices not the players. Winter in NE Doesn't help

Wasn't the poster's point that the Revs and Oakwood can't run the prescribed practice schedule because they can't get the players to show up in significant numbers to warrant running the practices?

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I don't care to get into the sanity of it all because that is a choice that the individual families are making for themselves but when are you trolls going to get through your thick skull that a DA level kid is totally immersed in soccer. It's a job for them. If you don't want your kid to be that involved in a sport, that is your prerogative, but please stop with this silliness of mocking the schedule. At a minimum all DA level players should be aspiring to play in college and if you think that a 4 day a week schedule is something unusual or too much at that level you are seriously mistaken.

A job? Really? For teenagers? Like an after school gig at the local grocery store?

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I am getting vague answers from GDA clubs. That is why I wanted to ask. They say we need to be committed 4x a week and then not play any other winter school sports like volleyball, but then they won't promise that in fact there will be 4 practices very each week. Trying to understand what other clubs in NE division are offering.

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gDA winter training

I am getting vague answers from GDA clubs. That is why I wanted to ask. They say we need to be committed 4x a week and then not play any other winter school sports like volleyball, but then they won't promise that in fact there will be 4 practices very each week. Trying to understand what other clubs in NE division are offering.

gDA can not do hs soccer in Fall, are they not allowed a winter sport other than soccer?

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A job? Really? For teenagers? Like an after school gig at the local grocery store?

If your kid wants to go D3 you could always stay with their ECNL team and just do the obligatory 2 practices a week then call it a day.

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Wasn't the poster's point that the Revs and Oakwood can't run the prescribed practice schedule because they can't get the players to show up in significant numbers to warrant running the practices?

No the Revs only do 3 because they don't care about da. It's an obligation to them and nothing else. If they could they wouldn't even have it. I don't know about OW but the have a small facility so that could be why they're doing 3. Players don't decide. Clubs do