ZogSports

I’ve had the privilege to play for the past couple years and am currently now a ref. Zogsports keeps me coming back for the fun, organized, and interpersonal aspects that they work to bring to every game. Zog is the right amount of competitive and the teams I have met have always been welcoming. This means you’ll not only meet the people on your team, but have the opportunity to have fun with the entire league.
As another point, I’ve always only played spring sports, and so rain outs are inevitable. I appreciate how the Zog team relays information and always reschedules all games.
I highly recommend for kickball! See you out there!

ZogSports is the best Soccer social Co-​ed league in the DC metro area. It is a great place to meet new people and donate to your favorite charity at the same time! Happy Hour at a bar close by is available after each game and it is another chance to spend time with your teammates and have fun. You can sign up as a team or as a free agent and whether you are looking for a casual or a competitive game, this is a lot of fun. I played in the fall league in Columbia Heights on the 9 v 9 pitch and loved every moment! You can play indoor (in the winter) or outdoor soccer with teams varying from 5 v 5 to 9 v 9. On the last few months I have started reffing for ZogSports and I enjoy every moment. All the soccer grounds are metro accessible and very easy to get to. The running of all soccer leagues is professional and the organizers are very responsive. ZogSports also offers Baseball, Football, Volleyball, Kickball and many more.

ZOGSPORTS IS AWESOME!!!
I’ve been in a couple of other recreational leagues and none of them are as well run or have been as much fun ZogSports. I’m currently playing softball and flag football; my experience in both leagues has been top notch. You get a mix of casual and competitive players, but everyone is there to have a good time.
Leagues aren’t expensive and you get a free t-​shirt with every team you join. It’s a really good opportunity to meet new people and it gives you something to look forward to on weeknights/​weekends.
Kendra and Casey are great organizers, keeping the league and all its moving parts running smoothly. They’re both really friendly and will do anything they can to address any issue that you have.
If you are on the fence about joining a rec league, I FULLY recommend ZogSports!

Great league, great service, very responsive to our team’s emails and very professional and prompt in responding to questions. Been playing in the 5 on 5 men’s basketball league for about 2.5 years and the 5 on 5 coed basketball league for about 2 years, both on Sundays at St. Alban’s school in NW DC.
Other than this one ref «Marvin» (just kidding)… their staff is first class, professional, and knowledgeable. Every game is a great experience, win or lose, and I’m sure that I’ll keep coming back to ZogSports as a team and as an individual for many seasons to come.

My experience with ZogSports has been stellar! I’ve had such a great time meeting new people and being part of such a positive community. There’s almost always something social going on after the games, and I have made some great friends through Zog in DC. The organizers are extremely responsive and always available to help with questions. Overall, great group of people with just the right level of competitiveness for me, I will continue to recommend ZogSports.

I can’t speak for the other leagues Zog runs around DC, but the soccer leagues at Eastern High School on Capitol Hill are run horribly. I’ve played on a team for the past two years and about once a season we’d have a night where the gates would be locked, or the field would be in use in the game was delayed. We allowed for the occasional screwup, but this fall they had no idea how to schedule around Eastern football. Multiple games were delayed by over an hour or outright cancelled, and the lights would cut out on the field at 11 no matter if a team was playing there — so when they’d have you show up for a game at 10 on a Thursday night (which they did) and it started late (which they did), the game was over at halftime. While it must tricky to deal with local high schools who don’t make you a priority, whatever contract they have for the field isn’t working.
This wouldn’t be nearly so bad if they had any way to communicate with their players, but in spite of having refs at the fields on time, in two years they haven’t figured out how to send an email to players to let them know their games will be late. And attempts to schedule makeup games were a disaster, once having the players go out from the Hill to Columbia Heights on a Sunday at dinnertime only to find the lights weren’t on. It took repeated emails and a lot of excuses for them to even attempt to offer a fix to the problem, and the best we were offered was a discount to come back next season and hope they’ve fixed the problems despite all evidence to the contrary.
Lousy equipment (Zog doesn’t even supply a ball) and spotty officiating (though it’s gotten much better lately) is forgivable, but the basic service you’re paying for (as opposed to a pickup league) is eight games of soccer at the time and place they say they’re going to be, and Zog — at least at Eastern — can’t seem to handle that. Save your money and play pickup instead.

I have been a part of Zogsports for about 4 years as a player and referee and I still enjoy my time participating in Zog. I have played basketball and football. Some highlights of Zog are:
Competition — The level of competition has something for everyone which actually makes the games fun. From the casual player to the players that have experience, majority of the players are out there is have fun.
The Fields/​Courts — The fields for flag football are good fields, usually turf fields throughout DC. The courts for basketball are good courts as well. In addition, they are throughout DC so Metro is an easy way to get the games.
Kendra/​Casey — Both of them are great people to be running Zog. They are always professional, kind, friendly, and nice people in general.
The People — Everyone that I have met through Zog are great people, Most of the people participating are out there having fun and the referees as well.
Cool Shirts — The shirts we get for playing are nice (going for each color).
Playing for a cause — At the end of it all playing for a charity makes the games are exciting.

Been playing Zog for about 4 years now. Has always been fun and made tons of friends through it! Definitely a good mix of competitive and casual games! Would completely recommend this to anyone who likes to play sports or anyone just looking to meet some new people!

I have played on a co-​ed flag football team with ZogSports DC for a couple of years now and I absolutely love it! I have been a part of other social sports leagues before Zog and this is by far the most organized. We play on conveniently located fields, the refs are always on time, and the competition is pretty equal across the board. Kendra, the GM, is friendly and does a great job at communicating with the teams. This has been a great way to meet new people, stay active and have fun. In addition to all of this, they donate to a charity of our choice at the end of each season! In my opinion, this is the top social sports league in the DC area.

I love Zogsports! Casey and Kendra have been awesome to work with. ZogSports is clearly more than just your neighborhood spots team.

Played spring outdoor volleyball with Zog and it was absolutely terrible. The same group of us have typically played with DC Social, but thought we’d give Zog a try, which we very quickly regretted and would NOT RECOMMEND. The referees were terrible, on their phones the whole time and didn’t keep score, and would then email us to ask who won which games afterwards. We never had any rescheduled or rained out games, despite thunderstorms and heavy rains — we’d play through rain, and on swampy flooded courts. Unacceptable.
The league was also described as competitive, but most teams were just corporate teams filled with players who had never even played volleyball. Kendra did her best, giving lots of excuses and little actual action, although she did change out the referees, and she offered no incentive to ever play with Zog again. Such an utter disappointment. As a result, we will never play on Zog again, and would never recommend it to anyone!

I had an opportunity to work for Zog as a referee over the past year. It was a fantastic experience. The team helps one another out and the management is both helpful and prompt with any need. The compensation is appropriate and the hours are great for earning some extra money. The management goes out of their way to find extra work for those who are looking for it. If your a young DC professional (or student) looking for some extra spending money, and loves sports, Zog is a place you should look into to for both entertain and employment.

ZogSports DC co-​ed soccer leagues are awesome. Kendra the GM is a superstar and is on top of everything. As a disclaimer, I have been both a referee and a player in ZogSports soccer leagues, take from that what you will.
First, the leagues go year round with indoor and outdoor soccer, and they are all on great turf fields (or gyms in the winter) in convenient locations near a metro (AdMo, Dupont, Shaw, Columbia Heights, Cap Hill, Arlington and probably a few I forgot).
Second, Zog is the best league for meeting new people and having fun. A lot of the other leagues (cough cough District Sports and Metro Sports) have leagues of teams that all know each other. In Zog you have plenty of those teams, but you also have a lot of teams comprised of free agents who didn’t know each other before that season. That is what makes Zog special, the environment it creates where complete strangers come together and become friends while bonding over those little black rubber pellets that turn up everywhere in your clothes after a game.
Third, there is a competition level for everyone. You can be a complete beginner or a college soccer player and still get a lot out of the Zog leagues.
Finally, it’s all for charity! Not only are we DC metrobots feeling better about the multi-​happy hour weeks we had by running around, but we are all doing it for a charity of our own choice.
Almost forgot, their website is easy to navigate for scheduling/​rules/​etc. and the price at $ 80 a season is very reasonable compared to the other DC soccer leagues.

ZogSports is a fun way to meet new people and play sports. It is competitive, but everyone is out to have a good time! The games are organized, on time and the referees are awesome.
I’ve met so many great people through Zog and look forward to playing more football next season. They offer a ton of other sports if you are looking for something else.
Definitely more organized than the other leagues I have played in!

Organized, professional, and so many options. I have played softball with Zog in a couple of different leagues around DC. The DC leagues played softball with a softer ball and metal bats, compared to other leagues (such as USS) that play with a real ball and wood bats.
The folks who run Zog are all incredibly friendly, and they reach out personally to players in their leagues to make sure their experiences are going well.
New to DC? Sign up for one of their leagues as an individual! It’s a great way to meet people in the city.

Why ZogSports is great:
–Lots of options in terms of sports and locations
–The charity option is not only cool by itself, but I think it also attracts much nicer and more fun people to the league
–Well organized
I like the going out to a bar afterwards is always an option but that the league itself isn’t drinking-​centered (drinking at public fields can cost permits which are very competitively sought after!).

I love ZogSports! Great people, awesome happy hours, and super organized. I have had a ton of fun meeting new people. Looking forward to next season!

ZogSports DC has something for everyone. Its large selection of sports leagues and varying levels of competition make it accessible to everyone. The refs and staff are very responsible, responsive, and fun. They are also dedicated to ensuring that its players have access to the best equipment and facilities each season. I am also impressed by Zog’s commitment to bettering the area by making a donation to the championship team’s charity of choice.
No matter what your sport preference or experience level, the Zog community is the perfect social sports setting and my favorite in DC. I’ve been playing both sand and indoor volleyball with Zog for almost 2 years. I started out on a randomly assigned team and now play regularly with those same people. Social sports leagues are what you make of them, but Zog has the ability to create a sense of community for you in an otherwise transient city.

They had me at «win money for charity by being competitive». Been playing indoor volleyball with Zog DC for quite some time now — and have always enjoyed the energy everyone brings to the games and happy hours. Seeing how awesome Kendra and Casey are (brownie points), I ended up ref’fing with Zog for soccer and volleyball and filling in here and there for other sports. Overall, it’s a great organization with a great mission with awesome, dedicated employees. Couldn’t say one negative thing about it — but I will say more WSC or Trinity College facilities, please :)

I think that every large metro area needs something like ZogSports. I’ve lived in a few suburbs (cough, Newport RI) that could really use some sort of a social hub and outlet for fun like what ZogSports provides to the greater DC area.
I moved to DC to support a contract and didn’t know anyone in the area. I’m a strong proponent of finding your own social circle, and I met a bounty of great folks while playing competitively in Zogs leagues.
Zog Sports has leagues for every kind of person, and most of them are coed. Soccer, football, dodgeball, volleyball, basketball… and they cater for casual (read: non athletes) and the more serious folks. I joined the flag football league, and it was a far cry from Fairfax athletics, where everyone seemed to have been playing together since high school. Really enjoyed the happy hours and the emphasis on having fun vice trying to kill everyone you play.
Zog Sports is great for networking as well, since people from all backgrounds and experiences join one community.
Sometimes, the private solution for sports and group activities offers options that city owned and run leagues are incapable of providing. If Zog is any indication, the results are great.