This review is strictly about the Victory Fastpitch organization, NOT the Dugout facility or The Reds.
Do yourself a favor and save your money by keeping your kids as far away from the Victory organization as possible. The owner of Victory Layla Burczak is a truly horrible person and fraud; who misrepresents herself as "college player" when she's played no higher than a community college level. Before creating Victory, she was released from an Arlington organization for her abusive, unethical treatment of players, while using her position to influence them to take and pay for lessons with her. Since she was discovered lying about her credentials and no longer had the means to continue with the above behavior in Arlington, she created Victory as her own, to eliminate administrative oversight and could continue her behavior without concern of having to be limited to or abide by ethical standards, and eliminate any fear of repercussions.
Most of the Victory coaches who they are able to retain are desperate former lower level players, and some of who couldn't even compete at any level and quit. The quality of practices and coaching technique is no better or possibly even worse than I've seen from inexperienced parent coaches learning from "you-tube". This is because they haven't been able to retain any legitimate coaches that might have been able to give some validity or credibility to the organization due to their questionable and unprofessional business practices.
These Victory owners and so called "coaches" gossip about and insult their players and students during lessons to other players; condone public physical and emotional abuse being imposed on their players by their coaches; and then make excuses and blame the players for why they treat them that way.
They don't care anything about your kids/their players beyond the income they receive from parents for lessons or team dues; and only see them as free marketing pawns for the Victory organization. This is evidenced by the fact that they don't publicly recognize outstanding play from girls on their teams through the organization's social media page, and will relegate them to bench players if you don't pay them for lessons. In short they force a "pay to play" policy on you. They are famous for taking credit for your daughter's successes, but break them down and point their fingers back at them for their failures.
I beg anyone reading this to pass the word about the horrible Victory owners and most coaches who are a part of this organization and warn them to steer clear of these people. There are so many other organizations out there that will treat your players with respect and be REAL role models and mentors for them; that you shouldn't have to subject them to Layla and her ilk. I just feel sorry for the few good coaches who are there who she's snowed into being loyal to her. read more