Best and Worst Girls High School Soccer Coaches in RI

Best girls HS coach, Coach D'Arezzo

HS soccer sucks

Wherever the most Bayside girls play at make the coach the best for that year. C'mon people this shouldn't even be a discussion. Bayside is the most dominant program in RI so it only makes sense that wherever their girls play will be a success for that coach. Well done Bayside!

Is this Portsmouth? Why are parents putting up with this?

What would/could parents do at any high school?

Chariho and Lasalle best girls soccer coaching. No idea about worst.

Chariho was named the school of the year by the group. Girls soccer and lacrosse coach Britney Godbout was named the female coach of the year.

Now this is funny LOL

They keep all the seniors on varsity regardless of talent. They do not follow the middle school or youth programs so they do not know the kids at all. Their tryouts consist of endless fitness stuff and mixed scrimmages where it is very hard to judge talent. They really do not know what they are doing. The assistant coach does most of the coaching and he is about 70 and has no idea what modern soccer looks like.

Is this Portsmouth? Why are parents putting up with this?

Why did Portsmouth choose not to have starting 11 be the best club players? Are you suggesting some talent was left on the bench or worse on the JV team?

They keep all the seniors on varsity regardless of talent. They do not follow the middle school or youth programs so they do not know the kids at all. Their tryouts consist of endless fitness stuff and mixed scrimmages where it is very hard to judge talent. They really do not know what they are doing. The assistant coach does most of the coaching and he is about 70 and has no idea what modern soccer looks like.

Chariho and Lasalle best girls soccer coaching. No idea about worst.

Chariho was named the school of the year by the group. Girls soccer and lacrosse coach Britney Godbout was named the female coach of the year.

Can't tell if mom is mad PHS dropping to D2 or her freshman club kid didn't play much on the varsity team?

Why would PHS mom be mad if freshman club kid is on the bench watching a team showing how it's done on the pitch?

Can't tell if mom is mad PHS dropping to D2 or her freshman club kid didn't play much on the varsity team?

PHS dad not mom here. Nothing to do with playing time. Everything to do with a varsity program going down the drain. Don’t comment when you aren’t in the know. If you know of a good coach or bad coach we would love to hear your input. Otherwise troll move along.

Can't tell if mom is mad PHS dropping to D2 or her freshman club kid didn't play much on the varsity team?

Several weak coaches with girls HS sports. The ADs are responsible for the entire athletic program of a school and if they are only focused on one sport or just the male sports the other sports often girls are falling apart. The Portsmouth AD should be held accountable if they had to drop to D1 due to his neglect of his job. More kids from that area will go private, the ones that can afford it, just to play ball. Lasalle, do you have a bus to pick up the Portsmouth girls soccer players daily? There’s some unhappy talented kids at that school,

*drop to D2

Why did Portsmouth choose not to have starting 11 be the best club players? Are you suggesting some talent was left on the bench or worse on the JV team?

Several weak coaches with girls HS sports. The ADs are responsible for the entire athletic program of a school and if they are only focused on one sport or just the male sports the other sports often girls are falling apart. The Portsmouth AD should be held accountable if they had to drop to D1 due to his neglect of his job. More kids from that area will go private, the ones that can afford it, just to play ball. Lasalle, do you have a bus to pick up the Portsmouth girls soccer players daily? There’s some unhappy talented kids at that school,

HS coaches don't have the same time to develop players as do club soccer coaches, but HS coaches have a season-full of practices and games, plus a pre-season, to improve their players year after year. If it were HS football or basketball, people would reasonably expect the players to develop over 4 years of HS even without external club coaching.

From what I have seen of club soccer development at HS ages, it is focused on tactics, mentality, and physical training. Individual skills development is mainly up to the player by that point. This is not very different from what you are describing about HS soccer.

I don't understand why you'd consider running and other drills useless. Soccer benefits from having the fitness to run and move over the course of a game, not to mention avoiding injuries. If the team is out of shape, then what else should be done?

As stated earlier, soccer is a team sport. Being a competitive soccer player includes the ability to play within a team and help the team win, so club and HS have this part in common even if the ultimate goal for many in club soccer is individual recognition.

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Incidentally, from what I understand Portsmouth could have fielded a starting XI of all club players had they chosen to do so. So a lack of club material isn't the problem there.

Why did Portsmouth choose not to have starting 11 be the best club players? Are you suggesting some talent was left on the bench or worse on the JV team?

HS coaches don't have the same time to develop players as do club soccer coaches, but HS coaches have a season-full of practices and games, plus a pre-season, to improve their players year after year. If it were HS football or basketball, people would reasonably expect the players to develop over 4 years of HS even without external club coaching.

From what I have seen of club soccer development at HS ages, it is focused on tactics, mentality, and physical training. Individual skills development is mainly up to the player by that point. This is not very different from what you are describing about HS soccer.

I don't understand why you'd consider running and other drills useless. Soccer benefits from having the fitness to run and move over the course of a game, not to mention avoiding injuries. If the team is out of shape, then what else should be done?

As stated earlier, soccer is a team sport. Being a competitive soccer player includes the ability to play within a team and help the team win, so club and HS have this part in common even if the ultimate goal for many in club soccer is individual recognition.

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Incidentally, from what I understand Portsmouth could have fielded a starting XI of all club players had they chosen to do so. So a lack of club material isn't the problem there.