SOA- Standard of Athletics

★Clara Hysaw

Maybe I should’ve read these reviews before we enrolled, but we were able to enroll as a team in an off-season for basketball and it was extremely affordable came out to like $38 per person on our team. The entire season has been a disappointment and I continue to tell myself “thats OK, it’s only $38.” but at the end of the day, we pay money to sign up and then continuously pay week after week at the door, therefore, I am allowed to have expectations. Coaches were told different things about practice schedules(double booked gyms) causing tension between the coaches every single week because we were both told different things. Game times changed two days before game day, and now our final game has been cancelled two days before we were set to play. I almost feel bad writing this review because I don’t think that they are intentionally bad people but at some point you have to care a little bit more about the organization you’re running.

★Jason Avalos

Fraud, scam, and money grabber - reporting to BBB and others We paid $115 for 8U and they won’t give us a refund as they cannot render services we purchased (8U basketball) due to them not having a team after a coach bailed on them. They will take your money and they “might” find a team for you. If they can’t they will “credit you”. Attached are their terms and conditions and it does not describe when they are unable to render services. It does say when the player cannot participate. My son can and is ready. They are not. The Director, Marcus, said only the owner can make this decision. When I asked why can’t he contact him now he said “he might not answer”. There is no consideration for their brand or reputation based on their customer service form their directors. This organization made $699K in 2019 (IRS taxes) and the owner had 2 other businesses generating additional income. And they choose to not refund me $115? Based on their tax return this company is using our money to float and is why it keeps changing names and hiding behind “helping kids”. As a consumer I have a right to have services rendered as expected if not rectified. I’m asking for 0.01% refund of their annual income. They can’t even do that. Details: I signed up my son for an 8U summer league and

★Victoria Armendariz

Do not recommend. Extremely unorganized, one coach for three different teams, and she didn’t even show up to the last two weeks of games and practices. There was no set schedule to when games would be, and game times were not sent out until about 48 hours before games, making it difficult to make any other plans for the weekend. The referee was always late to the game, and there was only one game where a representative of SOA was actual on the premises. Not worth the money, no experience was gained for my child through this past season.

★Jacqui Dawson

This is our first year with SOA and the organization let me down. They pushed hard on birth certificates to verify age, however they still Allowed select teams to have older children play at our level just to get more game time. A 2-3 year age gap is not appropriate. I feel the refs just ran the clock to get the game over. The kids still need to learn. Due to refs not calling fouls, I felt like I was watching a football game rather than basketball. I have never seen so many kids get knocked down and lay on a court while the game continues because the refs chose not to call timeout. What I find to be some sportsman like tendencies are some of the kids stopping to check on the injured, like they should. Their are others who don’t and run the ball. That’s isn’t right. I have heard trash talking from other teams coaches and players. How is that for sportsmanship? Communication has been tough too. The app says one thing and the coach says another. We will not be coming back to SOA and will spread the word to others to find another org.

★LaSondra Rhodes

Less than one star is what I would give this "organization". Not only are they not organized they don't seem to care what happens with your child or the sport they're in after they receive your money. My nephew played soccer for their 6U team and it was terrible. We were assigned a coach that never showed up to coach any of our games and at practice he would be "coaching" if/when he showed up over 20 kids at a time on one practice field. The association assigned us Ashley Burrell who was the worst coordinator. I nor any of the parents on the team upon talking to them received any communication from her. We were never notified when new soccer schedules were posted. We would receive field location information 15 minutes prior to when games were supposed to being and were not notified of team/individual pictures until 9:00pm the night before. Every game we played this season was at least 15-30 minutes behind schedule and some games got cut short because they were running so far behind schedule. The children would get so hot playing in their double sided thick jersey's that they were having to take multiple water breaks during game play. My nephew himself almost passed out from the heat. This "association" is a disgrace and never again will I sign up to play any kind of sport with them. It was so poorly ran that we might as well have set up two goals in someone's backyard and let the children just run around doing whatever. Steer clear from sending your child to this organization unless you and your child want to have a terrible experience.