Willamette United Football Club 19995 Southwest Stafford Road, West Linn, OR 97068

"I appreciate the opportunity for our kids to play and get some exercise. However, the program is poorly organized administratively, leading to discouragement for new, younger players. Specifically, younger teams are routinely (multiple times per season) matched against teams in different, higher grade levels (e.g. 5th grade teams versus 6th grade teams). This difference in age groups creates an unfair imbalance for the teams and causes the younger team members to be discouraged. In addition, because of the way WUFC organizes teams at the start of the season, some teams have an overflow of team members while others struggle to have enough to compete with no substitute players. Similarly, some teams have multiple coaches while some struggle to keep one coach through the season. Again, this appears to be an administrative problem. WUFC says that they have to play different grade teams against each other because they don't have enough teams. However, they could have easily blended teams at the start of the season so that there were multiple blended 5th/6th grade teams for example. Similarly, they could have spread out players to different teams so that each team had a similar number of players. It's poor planning and implementation to have teams with twice as many team members as others in the same club. This is apparently done to keep friends together, but the result is that unmatched teams both in terms of age and in terms of number of players and coaches are frequently pitted against each other. The end result is discouraged children because they weren't given a fair chance."

"Passion and dedication on display from staff, they all love soccer and teaching others about it… it’s fun to watch kids develop at this club! They may start at different points, but they all grow nonetheless… thanks, WUFC!"

"My daughter has been coming to the WUFC’s camps for the past two years. This year she got invited to participate in the PDP to help further hone her skills. This club has done such a great job keeping her excited to show up for practice and the staff are great. I’ve read a few reviews where parents are sad that their kids didn’t get something in return for participating in the camps. All I will say is that perhaps focus on keeping your kid excited about the game and not the prize and maybe your child will be motivated to keep trying. If you’re just interested in collecting medals and prizes so your child feels like they accomplished something, maybe check out the other camps that happily pass out trinkets for every kid rather than trying to get their skills where they need to be as they develop. I’ve been to those other camps. And they’re fine, but they’re not for kids interested in getting serious about the game."

"Save your money! Did a summer camp for my 6year old daughter. It was a disappointment to say the least. It started out ok, but the last two days she clearly didn’t want to go. I stayed and watched the last day-she sat on the grass with majority of kids, while a handful of other kids played a soccer match! The kids were also promised a surprise during the last day of camp. Only a few kids got soccer balls (that was the surprise). The rest of them nothing!!! These guys obviously don’t know anything about young children. Don’t promise something and then not deliver! My kiddo was super disappointed and cried in the car. Safe to say-we won’t be repeating this experience."

"Just finished another season with WUFC and we could not be happier with the experience that we've had. Ian, Pablo and Tim do a phenomenal job with the boys, and the focus on teamwork and developing the young players seems to be of paramount importance at the club. If your child wishes to play more soccer and has graduated from the REC level then this is where you belong."