The art classes are amazing!! The instructor is very patient, knowledgeable and has taught my…read moredaughter so much which has helped fuel her passion for drawing and painting. I would 100% recommend!

Loved the coaches but it's run militantly to a degree inappropriate for 5 year olds in my opinion.read more

I just want to say, I've never experienced such an amazing soccer club like this one. My son Henry…read moreand I always had trouble looking for a good soccer club, we've gone through 3 so far and have not found a match until we found FC united. Not only has my son improved in his skills but he has also really opened up with the team and the coaches. I recommend this club to any soccer parents looking for a very welcoming and aspiring club ! Shoutout to Sandra for being great to us!

This is a great Soccer Club in the Bronx. They treat you like family and get you situated with all…read moreyou need.

I'm a parent of a 10 year old daughter enrolled for her 3rd year here at Auburndale Soccer Club…read more It has the BEST GIRLS soccer travel teams in Queens! The training is excellent! Our coach for our 2009 girls team is perfectly on task with exactly what our girls need, bringing each of them up to higher skill levels. Girls come from Long Island towns to Auburndale Soccer Club because they know we play to win. Girls teams here win championships because they receive superb training. This is why they climb the divisions in the NY Club Soccer League, EDP, National Premier League, and beat nearby academies like Albertson, SUSA, and East Meadow... and win the Final Four and/or NY Cup tournaments. I'm tellin' ya. Get your kid in early, start them out right on a travel team, and they'll love it, you'll make friends as parents. It's all a blessing.

UTTERLY DISAPPOINTING!!! TOTAL RIP OFF!!! I brought my son here for the first time four years ago…read more I can't believe I waited so long to write this review. The Auburndale Soccer Club coaches did a TERRIBLE job when my son joined because he knew absolutely nothing about soccer whatsoever and they failed miserably to teach the kids anything. The coach and assistants had the kids running around like chicken without heads and the kids were visibly upset because they didn't know what to do. Is this how you teach 5-6 year olds? Really?! Never ONCE did the head coach or assistant coach explain anything to the kids which was utterly shocking. We went from Day 1 and by the third game, I lost all hope and finally asked the coach why there was no direction. He said my husband or I should have had my son ask for training. Again REALLY?!? With this mentality, I might have taught my son dance lessons in my backyard with 10 monkeys in tutus!!! I was so disgusted for the lack of coaching that we gave up and ended up joining a little league instead where he is flourishing. Shame on Auburndale Soccer Club for not hiring better coaches who actually can teach the game instead of charging for lessons when there is none!

It's small in here but somehow it works - with it being so small you don't feel crowded. The staff…read moreis super helpful and friendly. They also have a great concession stand with a lot of options, the bathrooms are extremely clean. When there's an event, parking is a horror though

There's no emphasis on improving every individual and team as a whole. There's more focus and brown…read morenosing those who seem to be the best out of the entire program. Which is sad. Most recently, they discounted a couple of players by nearly all of the membership fee. To offset the loss they made the other players pay hundreds more. I was told it was director hussman's decision. The irony is, after the first tourney, one of the players (who got the massive discount) quit. While at a tournament, i heard hussman get asked by a mom 'the team keeps losing. what's going on w the team?' He pointed his finger at the players and listed their faults. It was shameful. Fyi, there's really no speak on college stuff. The college that they hv any connection to is the director's former college. You should call and ask and decide for yourself/kid. In the end, what's important is that they stretch the players. I'm not concerned about falling into line and hv the facade that everything's okay. Sportime volleyball needs to do better.

The Absolute Best Girls Volleyball Club in Westchester NY. The club travels to the largest…read moretournaments in the mid to north east, from MD. to MA and brings home First Place Gold Medals! Since my daughter has been playing RJS VBC her skills and level of play has improved so much more than just doing school volleyball. Now finishing up her second year the team took the First Place Gold Medal at the Northern Atlanta Championships! The coaching staff is great with most playing at college level and or head coaches in the local school districts. If your daughter is really serious about playing volleyball and aspires to be a top player at highschool and continue to college volleyball, join the club you and your daughter will not be disappointed! The club practices at Ardsley Middle School in Ardsley NY, starting at 7pm, day of the week depending on the age group. Good Luck RJS VBC!

This is a very new organization and they are running it perfectly!…read more Great to find a youth baseball team where not only the coaches care, but also work on improving the kids on field game & the mental aspect of baseball. also they run the team like a travel team should be run. 2-3 practices a week plus games. not run like little league, where kids are switching positions every inning like some teams. super low cost as well makes it a must try for any parent whos looking for a team for their son. by far the best run team my son has been on. Deff a team every baseball parent should look into.

Overall, this has been a great experience. The coaches we have had have been great and teach all…read morethe right things.

Great place for kids. Snack shack available for snacks, hot food and drinks…read more Baseball, t-ball, lob ball, basketball, soccer, softball for girls and boys. Great staff and coaches. Lovely fields. Very well maintained. Practice indoors at local schools during winter. 5 fields available during season. Summer travel leagues and soccer camp. Congenial families. Great experience for kids.

Glutton's Guide to Getting Burned: Our $4,000 Spike to the Face at 516 Elite Volleyball…read more If you're in the market for a youth sports experience that blends the chaos of bad reality TV with the organizational prowess of a middle school bake sale -- all at a luxury price point -- may I humbly suggest 516 Elite Volleyball? For just $4,000 (a small price to pay for disillusionment), we signed up for what was advertised as "elite" and were instead treated to a masterclass in mismanagement, where the only thing elite was the grift. Let's start with the roster. In a bold departure from, you know, every other volleyball program in the country, 516 Elite decided to jam 40% more players onto every team, turning what should have been competitive court time into a human game of musical chairs. Except the music was cursing. And the chairs were broken. The coaching? A refreshing mix of apathy and profanity. Nothing says "player development" quite like grown adults dropping f-bombs at teenage girls, then wondering why the team chemistry feels off. Spoiler: it's not the girls. Tournaments? Oh, we went. We packed the car, paid the hotel, sat on uncomfortable bleachers, and watched our team get absolutely annihilated in every single match. And the best part? Sometimes we traveled hours just to play... another team from 516 Elite. Imagine flying to Italy and eating Olive Garden. That's the level of thoughtfulness here. Growth? Development? Positivity? Structure? Nonexistent. This wasn't a team -- it was a tax write-off with knee pads. No leadership, no feedback, no strategy -- just a long, slow drain on time, energy, and the will to believe in youth sports. By season's end, we weren't just disappointed -- we were furious. Not because we didn't win, but because no one cared. Not the club. Not the coaches. Certainly not the program director, who seemed far more focused on collecting checks than building character. Verdict: If you enjoy watching your child regress, feel invisible, and question why they ever loved the game in the first place, 516 Elite is your jam. Otherwise? Run. And don't look back. Final Score: 0 wins, 0 growth, 0 stars.

They renamed themselves to 516 Elite Volleyball following the close of last season (2024). Don't be…read morefooled by the new name. The reason why they renamed themselves is because they're horrible at what they do. Their coaches are terrible. This club cost over $6000 last year. Between the ~$4000 in club costs (fee, uniforms, pre-season practice sessions) and the trips. I don't mind the spend as long as they deliver what they promised, training. They didn't. In fact, they broke the spirit of multiple volleyball players last year that did not come back this year. At the end of the season, my daughter threw away all her volleyball gear that she had the B&B Volleyball logo - it mad her sick to look at it and she never wanted to see it again. She was on the only open "D" team that lost just about every game in every tournament. Her coaches (Carlos and Jessica) only played their daughter or the same starters. The team had ~14 players but they only played the same 6 who kept losing. I had one of the coaches (Jessica) tell me I was lucky she doesn't punch me in my face (because I approached her after a game). This coach's (Jessica) daughter was on the team, and that's all she was interested in. The other coach (Carlos) was actually an A-Team coach covering the D team too. Needless to say, they were not his priority. Carlos only played the same six players the whole season, his starters and then spoke poorly of the other players. There was another very horrible situation attached to this club, but we won't get in to that here... most likely why they changed the name of the club. They are a horrible club.

2025 REVIEW Friendly staff, They renovated the batting cage…read morewith new high gauge cage nets, they fully cleaned and fixed all batting platforms. They have 1 softball machine, 1 baseball machine, rentable drill space ($60/hr). Bring your own bat or rent a bat for $1 and helmets are free to use. They sell Candy, Gatorade and fryed snacks when it's baseball season.

Great renovated facility with really good coaches that really care !!! The place has refreshments…read moreand snacks and the staff are amazing. I never knew about this place until two years ago and ever since i've recommended it to everyone i know related to softball and baseball ..

I wanted to write a review for awhile, but waited a little bit of time so I could sit down and sort…read morethrough all of my thoughts. We had enrolled with Kiddie Academy before they were even open for business; one of the directors liked to joke that my son was their first kid. It was a brand new facility that was within the neighborhood so we were excited to attend. KA fully opened in September 2017, and although there were some growing pains, it was a well-run daycare that was very responsive to parent feedback. My son had just turned 1 when he first attended KA. We've had amazing teachers - Theresa, Yolanda, Sam, Brandi, Katherine, to name a few. Some of them no longer work there for one reason or another. Turnover is VERY high here. I always thought it was peculiar when seeing their ads for teachers and assistant teachers that their requirements for early education were so low, but since we've always had great teachers up until this year, I never questioned it. I don't want to go into our personal history with this place, and all the detailed ridiculousness that went on in the past few months, but I do want to note that if your child tests boundaries or doesn't do well with passive teachers, this is not the place for you. Earlier this year my son went through a phase of rebellion and testing boundaries, and spiraled out of control because the teacher he had was too passive and a pushover. I would get a call everyday from the newly minted and extremely real-world-inexperienced director, telling me "I don't know what to do." You are a daycare facility, your job is to KNOW WHAT TO DO. Your job is to give your teachers, and yourself, the tools to learn classroom management for young children. There was none of this. One of the other directors even asked me to talk to my pediatrician and to see a therapist. A THERAPIST FOR A THREE YEAR OLD!!!! AND WE ACTUALLY WENT!!! Against my better judgement as his mom, we went, because we thought there might be some anger issues he had to work out. But there were none. He was acting like a normal 3 year old, testing his boundaries, to see how far he could push. The therapist even suggested possible abuse or bullying from other classmates/teachers, but we got none of that out of him. Finally, as a last resort and after almost a whole month of this behavior, they switched him to a different classroom with a more stern teacher. He did well and the calls stopped. After a few weeks, COVID shutdown occurred but did not shut KA down. There was a huge decrease in the number of teachers and kids in the classrooms. Throughout March, April, May, June, July.... We attended. We supported them. In August, as more kids and teachers returned, there were yet again changes to my son's classroom environment which resulted in his bad behavior resurfacing and at this time, I was fed up with the young, inexperienced director. I couldn't stand her almost daily calls asking me to pick him up because she "didn't know what to do anymore." I was ready to move my son out of this facility. After a week of her calling me to complain about his bad behavior I gave her a piece of my mind. We have been enrolled in a structured, Catholic pre-k program since school started and he is thriving and flourishing. The teacher has 30+ years of experience. I wish I could turn back time and take him out back in January when this all started. When kids behave poorly, it is the environment and the adults around him that need to change. I hated having to write this review in this manner as I have always been supportive of this facility even when other neighborhood moms complained about them. I was always on KA's side; I understand how small businesses worked and how much money, blood, sweat they must have poured into this business. But I can no longer do that with a clear conscience after my personal experiences and I can no longer recommend them as I have for the past couple of years.

We absolutely loved our time at Kiddie Academy. My daughter entered KA a very shy, some what…read moreguarded 3 year old. Now entering her first year of public school, she has become so confident, independent and social. I can thank the teachers and staff for helping her development. Everyone is extremely pleasant and genuinely caring. The teachers are extremely observant and very communicative. The building is extremely clean and well maintained. There's a very good balance of play and education. Quality child care is expensive anywhere you go but I am very happy with my decision to enroll my child in Kiddie Academy. I would highly recommend KA to all for quality, educational child care.