VLPRA

★Kristin Marie

They are the most poorly organized recs organization that I have ever been involved with and we have lived all over the nation. This is the 2nd time I have dealt with a coach not contacting me and starting practice without my knowledge. They can barely find coaches, which leads to delays in practices and they have to hold off practices until they find someone, then once they find someone they don't inform you and you are left calling the facility to try and get information!! We try not to use VLPRA for sports, but for basketball it seems to be our only option. Giving them 95 bucks for a shotned season with hardly any practices is beyond frustrating! They made over 90,000 for this basketball season and can't even get organized! I loathe this organization! Also, the refs are awful and alot of the coaches play their kids the whole time and give the kids who aren't so good about 10 minutes of playing time.

★★★★★Joan Williams

We held a family reunion there. The staff was friendly and very helpful.

★Nicholas Flamel

Where to start? What can be said that hasn't already been said in reviews below mine. VLPRA are absolutely the most unprofessional, atrocious and unorganized entity I've ever had the misfortune of funding. All these people care about is getting money from parents through fees and such. They truly don't care about the kids. They hire referees that call fouls and traveling more on certain schools and not others. They ignore other teams fouls and such. They basically have favorites. I speak from experience and seeing it first hand. If they are related to one of the girls on any team, you can bet money that team will win. This is the most corrupt and shady organization I've ever dealt with. Let's not even speak of the clear lack of professionalism most of their field workers have when it comes to handling complaints and or problems, they take it all personal and attack you verbally or just brush you off cause they got your money so who cares. Last night one very sensitive red had both coaches kicked out just so the other team had the win, the other team was losing by the way. But in disqualifying my daughter's team meant they were out of the playoffs. Now you may be asking why did they lock the coaches out, well they were telling the refs that two of the other girls teammates kept blatantly pushing our girls and weren't being fouled. That's all. For asking questions. We're done with the clown show that is VLPRA. They need a major overhaul of their structure. Starting at the top of the totem pole. Replace everyone and start over. Maybe then some parents may start funding these clowns again. Examples of how they handle criticism from parents are below in some of the other reviews, as I'm sure someone with hurt feelings will probably make a snazzy remark on mine, or not. I'm done. Parents please stop giving your money to VLPRA, there's a few other organizations out here that will treat you and your children better.

★Kourtney Robinson

Are you looking for somewhere for your child to learn the fundamentals of basketball? Equal opportunity? Equal playing time? Etc? This is NOT the place for you. I am so incredibly disappointed in how unprofessional this first time experience for us has been. A couple of the parents from our team have spoken with Dennis Rice multiple times already since the season started. He does not care. He does not care that there are players only playing 6 minutes in a 40 minute game, while other players on the team are playing 36 minutes. He claimed that there was nothing he could do because the coach is a volunteer. Are there no set rules? Standards to abide by? Anybody can sign up and do whatever they want because they are a volunteer? Is that what he meant? Sure sounds like it. My child did not try out for this team. I paid the same amount as every other person on the team for my child to get the proper training and playing time. We won a couple of our games by over 12 points. At what point do you as a decent human being think to yourself, “Hmmm, maybe I should put the kids that have been sitting on the bench the entire game in??” One of the dad’s went up to our coach and asked him to sit his kid out to allow the other players to have some playing time. The “coach” said, “No.” Absolutely mind blowing. Upon reading previous reviews, I see that this is an ongoing issue. Do better, Dennis. Do better.

★lara wibright

This organization's football program is COMPLETELY FIXED.! Everyone PAYS to play, yet coaches play their own child over others, even though their children are not talented and known for playing dirty and hurting other other players. And if you think reaching out to those in charge will help, forget about it. This is truly the OLDBOY organization! So if you want your kids to play, learn a sport or stay safe DO NOT get involved in VLPRA!