Over the past year Janice Johnson of the U16 Division I Arrow’s has taken part in the Olympic Development Program (ODP). This is a US Youth Soccer Program to identify players of the highest caliber for the US National Teams. She has gone through district, regions and state selections and was recently one of two girls selected from the state of Virginia to attend the U16 National Team Camp in Florida. At camp the players were split into teams and trained by the National team coaches and staff throughout the week. They competed in a tournament format and Janice’s team won the tournament. This was Janice’s first year in the ODP program and it is very unusual to make it that far in the first year. We are anxiously awaiting Janice’s call up to the national team. Until then Janice will compete with the U16 VA ODP State Team. Janice has a tremendous work ethic and shows amazing potential.  She spends countless hours training throughout the season. We know there is a bright future for Janice and look forward to watching her reach all of her goals. 

  

Alexandria Soccer Association’s U12 Boys team Dynamo Elite won the recent Great Falls VIP Columbus Day Tournament. In their six-team division Dynamo Elite opened the tournament by tying the Ashburn Extreme 1-1, but then caught their stride, and beat the Reston Rampage 2-0, the Herndon Raptors in the semifinals by 2-0 and in the finals the Ashburn Extreme again 3-1.

 

Multiple goal scorers for the Dynamo Elite were Colin Bell, Tommy Hart, Kevin Ortez. Yousef Beidas, Jack Clare, Aidan Fielding (Dynamo’s master of set pieces), Aaron Cargas and Camille El-Baba kept continuous pressure on the opposing defenses, and were clearly dominant in shots-on-goal and corner kicks.

 

The defense which surrendered only two goals all tournament was anchored by Connor Ortman in the goal and by Jack Hall and Randy Harrell who continuously picked off clearing attempts to keep the ball in the offensive half of the field.

 

The Dynamo competes in the Northern Capitol Soccer League, and with a 5-3-1 record and 49 goals scored.  This was not only the most number of goals scored in our division but in the entire age group as well.