Arlington Soccer Association: Rec, Teen & Travel soccer in Arlington, VA

The Arlington Aces club is comprised of students who live within the Taylor Elementary School boundaries.

Club Manager:

Kyle Conley
Email:  aces@arlingtonsoccer.com

Club Colors:

Aces Statistics:

On September 17, the first games of the fall 2011 season kicked off.   The Aces started the season with 460 players on 39 teams, from U6 to U13/14.  There were 212 girls (including 13 who also play travel soccer) and 248 boys (including 12 who also play travel soccer), on 13 girls teams, 16 boys teams, and 10 co-ed teams.

Fall Practice Times/Locations — click here.

Uniform Purchase Info:

Uniforms can be purchased at La Tee Shirt at 5131 Lee Hwy.  Current prices are $18/kit, or $7/jersey, $7/shorts, and $4/socks, plus tax, payable by cash or check.  Store hours are 1oa-6p Mon-Fri, and 10a-5p Sat.  Available sizes are:

Youth Small
Youth Medium
Youth Large
Adult Small
Adult Medium
Adult Large
Adult XL

Team Assignment Policy:

The goal of the Aces team assignment policy is to provide for continuity of team rosters, while also providing for equitable and transparent assignment of both new and returning players to teams.  Team assignments are also subject to roster maximums and travel player maximums assigned by the ASA.

General team assignment:

  1. New U6 (Kindergarten) teams and new U8 teams in the fall season will be assigned based on the requests of parents and coaches.  Previous team assignment will be considered when forming new U8 teams.  Gender balance will be considered when forming U6 and U7 teams.
  2. Other teams will be formed in the following manner for each returning team:

In consultation with Aces age-group Coaches, the Aces Club Manager will determine both when an additional team needs to be formed and when an existing team needs to be eliminated.  In each of these cases, the Aces age-group Coaches and Club Manager will determine the allotment of players across the new teams in the age group.

Please note that team sizes change from age-group to age-group, and so the make-up of teams may change from year to year for this reason alone.

All team assignments are ultimately made at the discretion of the Aces Club Manager in consultation with Coaches, with the policies above serving as guidelines.

Practice Assignment Policy:

The goal of the Aces practice assignment policy is to provide Coaches with the ability to select the practice slot of their choice in an equitable and transparent manner, while allowing for Coaches of multiple teams to coordinate their schedules by giving them priority of selection.

Each season, the Aces are allotted a certain set of practice “slots” from the ASA, who has been given a set of slots from Arlington DPRCR.  (A “slot” is a date, time, and location.)  The Head Coaches of each team are given the opportunity to select the practice slot of their choice in the following manner:

  1. Head Coaches of multiple Aces teams select one practice slot for each team.  Coaches are ranked by the number of teams they coach.  For instance, a head coach of three teams selects all of his/her practice slots before a coach of two teams.
  2. Coaches who are Head Coach of one team and Assistant Coach of one or more additional teams select one practice slot for each team.    For the teams on which they are Assistant Coach, they coordinate with the Head Coach before making the choice for that team.  Each Coach selects all of his/her practice slots before the next Coach selects.
  3. Head Coaches who coach one Aces team select a practice slot.

Within each of the three categories, selection order is determined by random number generation.

The Aces Club Manager is ultimately responsible for practice slot assignment, and will determine how the process is operationalized each season.  (In order to save time, coaches are typically asked at the same time to rank their top choices, and the Aces Club Manager assigns practice slots from these rankings based on the principles listed above.)