This Board meet once a week to continue the development of the TAP Futbol Club Premier program. While all teams still had to register in the Gunston Soccer Club for resources such as fields and access to leagues; the TAP program provided the main support to player development, team development, coaching philosophy and day-to-day administration of TAP Teams at no additional charge. The majority of this was Voluntary work. The TAP BY-Laws had to be rewritten as TAP Policy and Procedures, so as not to conflict with the Gunston By-Laws, the Gunston Athletic Institute and the GSC 501 C (3) Tax exemption. Nevertheless, TAP was satisfied to function under the umbrella of GSC to meet its current needs. There was no official sanctioning of the TAP Program by the Gunston Soccer Club Board of Directors, nor the Gunston Athletic Institute. In the later years of 2001-2003, the TAP Futbol Club Premier Board of Trusties had a difficult time managing, servicing, and administering the program to teams that they had no real control over, since these teams technically belonged to Gunston Soccer Club per their NCSL / WAGS Registrations. This quasi operation needed re-organizing to better serve the emerging Team America Premier program and the growing Premier Soccer community.
In mid-2003, there was an attempt to re-group the TAP program by implementing a Club Director “Mr. Clyde Watson” and a Club Administrator “Mrs. Carolyn Menchel”. The intent was to get the program moving forward and functioning at full capacity, while the re-organization of the Board of Trustees could be accomplished. Members of the Board of Trustees would continue to lend support to the program during this reorganization stage. The ultimately goal was to reorganize the program, and eventually evolve into an independent fully functional soccer club. TAP still continued to provide services to the teams and players.

However, somewhere along these lines, the focus had changed with greater attention being devoted to parents with special request for specialized training and support for their individual teams. TAP no longer focused on Club Building, but providing short term programs to meet player/parent needs. A series of new programs for winter and spring training, ball masters, combined training sessions for the teams and winter ball masters program were introduced. A TAP fee was also introduced. Outside of the standard support from Gunston Soccer Club, TAP teams still needed to reach out to the TAP Program for the additional soccer services, not provided by GSC. Team America Premier was still not an independent Soccer Club, but a program supplying soccer services to groups of teams.

In 2004: After careful review of the TAP Program, Mr. Watson and Mr. Robertson had reached a tentative agreement to rebuild the TAP Futbol Club philosophy of soccer and return to the idea of creating a TAP Futbol Club in Northern Virginia - the next stage of evolution. Early in 1994, several meetings, discussions, and communications on the building of the Team America Premier Futbol Club had being conducted. A new reorganized plan for an INDEPENDENT TAP FUTBOL CLUB seemed to be evolving.
However, unforeseen circumstances caused this process to halt. The overwhelming demands on Mr. Watson and his involvement with the Women’s Professional Soccer league and International Soccer commitments required his undivided attention. This severely limited his availability to be fully involved with the Team America Premier Futbol Club effort.

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