Welcome to the official web site of the McLean MPS Power, a rising U15 (2009-2010 season) girls soccer team of the McLean Premier Soccer (MPS) club. McLean is a community of about 40,000 people located in Northern Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. McLean's travel soccer program is the top ranked club in Virginia, according to GotSoccer's club rankings. Despite being a relatively small club on the national scale, McLean's girls program is ranked #1 in Virginia, #2 in Region 1 (to PDA from New Jersey) and in the Top 20 nationally! The MPS girls program has produced many more National Pool players than any other area club, 2 Women’s National Team members, numerous All Met (DC Area) Selections and High School All Americans. For 2008 and 2009, Soccer America magazine ranks the McLean girls program as the #7 girls club in the nation after recent successes, which included, among other highlights, the U-16 MPS Freedom winning a national championship, two MPS girls touring Argentina with the U.S. U-17s and many MPS girls teams winning Virginia state titles.
While a U14 team, WAGS elevated the Power to its U15 Division 1 for the Spring 2009 season, where the team posted a winning record against the U15 WAGS Division 1 competition. At U15 in the Fall of 2009, the team finished second in WAGS Division 1, splitting matches with the Champion.
The team's goals are to continue to learn the game and advance in the sport to the highest level, while affording an opportunity for every teammate to play at the collegiate level and beyond if the player decides she wants to do so. The training is unsurpassed in the area, and the club, whose coaches are some of the most experienced and accomplished in the game, provides the resources for every girl to reach her individual goals.
Sampling of the MPS Power Accomplishments:
- Numerous ODP players (National Camp/National Pool, USL Super-Y National ODP, Region 1 Camp/Region 1 Pool, State (Maryland and Virginia), Virginia Districts
- WAGS U15 Fall 2009 Division 1 Sportsmanship Award (ended the season tied for second on the table)
- Numerous Power players have been named to all-conference teams as high school players
- Power players made up at least half the Washington Freedom U14 squad that finished as runners-up (overtime loss in finals) in the 2009 USL Super-Y League North American Finals
- Numerous Power players named to Washington Freedom Center of Excellence Team competing in the USL U14 Super Y League for 2009
- Power players formed a core of the Washington Freedom Super Y Team invited to compete for the 2008 National Championship at the US Soccer Fest (1 of 12 teams nationally)
- WAGS U15, Division 1 Spring 2009 (playing up; proper age U14); completed season with winning record against WAGS Division 1 teams a year older
- Champions WAGS Division Fall 2008 & WAGS Sportsmanship Award Fall 2008
- Arlington Spring Invitational 2009 (Finalist Premier Flight, Undefeated, Unscored on in Group Play)
- Undefeated (3-0) Richmond Kickers Club Invititational 2009
- Undefeated CASL Shootout, November 2008 (Elite Flight)
- Undefeated WAGS season, Fall 2008
- Arlington Spring Invitational 2008 (Undefeated, Premier Flight)
- Bethesda Thanksgiving Tournament 2007 - Champion
- 2007 Virginia State Cup - Final Four
- Undefeated WAGS season, Spring 2007
- Jefferson Cup 2007 (Premier Flight) - Finalist
- Arlington Spring Invitational 2007 (Premier Flight) - Semi-Finalist
- Fayetteville Friendlies 2007 (Undefeated, Unscored on)
- Numerous Indoor League Championships, including playing up
- CASL Shootout 2006 (Champions Flight) - Semi-Finalist
- WAGS Tournament 2006 – Semi-Finalist
- Dulles National Tournament 2006 – Finalist
- Jefferson Cup 2006 (Premier Flight) - Semi-Finalist
- Loudoun Icebreaker 2006 – Champion
- Mid-County Fall Classic 2005 - Finalist
- League Play, Division 1 2005 – Sportsmanship Award
The Power is coached and trained by Clyde Watson, a youth National Champion coach and the club's Technical Director. The Power was developed up to and through the U14 year by Jamil Faryadi, a five-time State Cup Champion youth coach and Coerver foot-skills specialist. Washington Freedom Assistant Coach and Kris Ward, a Maryland and Region 1 ODP coach, has served the team as an assistant coach and trainer.
The Team trains a minimum of three sessions per week during the Fall and Spring seasons and a minimum of two sessions per week during the Winter and Summer seasons. In the Summer, the Team is part of the Washington Freedom Super-Y club, playing in the Mid-Atlantic Region. As part of the Washington Freedom teams, Power girls routinely compete for the US Soccer League National Championship in Tampa, Florida.
Over the course of the Fall and Spring, the Team plays either in the Region 1 League or the Washington Area Girls Soccer League (WAGS), as well as high-level tournaments such as the Jefferson Cup, Bethesda Thanksgiving Tournament, Discovery Cup, FC Delco Players Cup, WAGS Tournament, etc. The objective of the Team is to compete for the State Cup title and at the National level in top-tier tournaments, as the MPS teams before it have done. Many of the Team’s players share a personal objective to play soccer beyond the club, after graduation from high school. MPS has a formal program to assist players in such ventures, and the club boasts a stable of highly knowledgeable and experienced coaches who help players who have this desire to secure the right opportunities.
