Bayside Raiders Youth Football

★★★★★lol

They are building this "Dynasty" in Queens when it comes to Youth Football. No other program has the Culture, Energy, Diversity, and Heart these Coaches and Players have to the Game, Organization and to Each Other. "THE RAIDERS DYNASTY" in coming!!! Thank You Coach JUJU, Coach BUBBA, and Coach X for leading this organization to the right direction.

★★★★★leslie lebron

My son attends the raiders and I can say the coaches are equipped to handle any child under any circumstances. brings leadership confidence stamina raising up real gentleman and ladies.the growth and development for the kids come out strong the end result is satisfactory.

★★★★★dvac9

Great team, coaches are pleasant and knowledgeable. My son enjoys the time he spends with the team and learning football.

★★★★★Natural 3 Hg

It good in my opinion it like it a very good homecoming games playoff and I think they have Super Bowls but they don’t do a very good team a sold team Good experience in the first year I ever came Nice drills Beautiful hustle now nice Hemelets everything you can and imagine hard shoulder pads they hit hard like very hard especially Junior peewee level and pee wees bamtas

★L. Sasha Peña

BEWARE - My personal advice is to feel the team out and show up to practices before completing paperwork and paying the dues. Our experience with the Bayside Raiders was less than pleasant. For starters the head coach for the peewees, Tony, who is also the president of the Raiders is barely present during practices and special events such as opening day and award ceremonies. There were promises that were made and not kept, for example busing to games, that never happened but was supposedly included as part of our registration fees and was also supposed to be deducted from the fundraising we did for raiders day. There was a huge lack of communication as well, there were times when the practices were cancelled and we weren't informed. On other occasions there parents threatening each other during games and arguments among the coaches. There's a lack of leadership, organization and communication with the Raiders team. When we expressed our dissatisfaction and asked for issues to be addressed, we were brushed off and told it was a volunteer based program and if we weren't happy we should become more involved. We were at every practice and every game providing water, food and supplies for each event. We were also told that the issues existed because our kids didn't have heart enough to play. We wanted our son released from the program at the end of the season because we felt there wasn't much room for him to grow within a stagnant organization. The first time we requested a release we were told simply that the Raiders do not provide releases (although there is a release policy in the manual). We were dragged along the release process for 4 months. During this time we were falsely accused of breaking bylaws- we were accused being recruited by another team, we were accused of practicing with another team, none of these things happened. This hindered our son's ability to practice. We were asked for paperwork and complied with all request and our son's release was denied. Our emails, texts and calls were ignored for weeks. We got other presidents involved and even the commissioner involved and nothing was done. The team is only as good as it's leadership, and when the leader is absent the team will never grow.