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Anonymous wrote:Looked at Arlington insta for girls, it does appear that they are heavy on academic schools for soccer. Not sure if the coaches have a pipeline or if it's just the aggressive NoVA moms, but it looks like it is a real thing.

A lot of Arlington girls also go to very fancy private schools (Sidwell, Potomac, Hilton-Arms, etc). I think it’s the counselors at the private schools that are more connected than the Arlington coaches getting them into Ivies and top D3s.

Tell me you know nothing by posting more on this LOL! Counselors at private school send transcripts to coaches, there is little to no conversation. Can they get your kid on to a WL sure, but anything more than that is misinformation.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington feels like the only normal club left in this area. Probably because they have a great financial position and don’t have to invite all the chaos in like others.

good coaches for both genders, good Technical staff, good fields and no stupid ‘alliances’ to distract.

They also have really good college placement

Arlington doesn’t need an alliance. They have the most players of any club in nova.

Pretty average college placement for ECNL.

Agree with this but average for ECNL is pretty good.

I am not sure I would say it is "average". If your goal is P4, yeah, they are middle tier. But if you mix in academic as well as P4, then they are pretty good. In the last two years you have at least 3 Ivy and a shit ton of super high academic schools (Georgetown, USC, Vandy, Hopkins and too many top tier D3 schools to name).

For parents in this area, they'd willingly trade the scholarship money for the admissions ticket.

Too many top tier d3 schools? Arlington is touted as a top club and the goal is d3 recruiting?!

If you are a parent, and your child has an offer from D1 Le Moyne (78% accepted, 2,800 undergrads) and D3 Carnegie Mellon (11% acceptance, 8,000 undergrads + top grad school) you hope your kid picks Mellon. The lifetime value of a degree from WashU, Mellon, Emory, Hopkins (all ~10% or lower acceptance) is multiples more valuable.

Players that pick those schools have offers from D1, just not P4. So yeah, if I see those schools on the list, I know it means Arlington kids are being recruited.

PS, if your kid plays for LeMoyne and it gives them the opportunity live their dream to play D1 ball, that’s awesome! But as a parent, I’m thinking longer term - I’ll be happy and support my kid either way, but my kid currently has the grades so I will take elite D3 over D1 in the middle of upstate NY.

LeMoyne is an odd comp, and yes Hopkins, CM and Wash U are great academic schools but shitty college experiences. Most parents paying through the nose for 10-12 years of youth soccer are surely not dreaming of sending their superstar athletes to Egg Head U.

LeMoyne is a perfect comp, because it's the kind of D1 you end up getting if your kids is D1 or bust, but not able to play for a name-brand P4. If you don't like LeMoyne, how about Radford (93% acceptance, 7k students, middle of nowhere) or University of South Carolina Upstate, or Gardner-Webb? How do I know this? Because my kid got recruited by nearly every team in the Big South, and we did some tours. Sure the schools are D1, but other than Radford and Longwood, which had a bit of a party school scene, the rest of the schools were often commuter-ish and not really up to the academics DD had worked hard to achieve. Few of them had really amazing facilities, we actually saw better at some D3s.

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Arlington is going down this weekend. FVU is going to take care of business!

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A lot of Arlington girls also go to very fancy private schools (Sidwell, Potomac, Hilton-Arms, etc). I think it’s the counselors at the private schools that are more connected than the Arlington coaches getting them into Ivies and top D3s.

This isn’t the case. Arlington recruiting starts in 8th/9th grade and college advising at these schools starts absurdly late (junior year). Girls are committing for soccer at the same time as they’d be beginning to make a list with their college counselors at these schools.

Anyone getting into an ivy or high academic D3 AND playing a sport or either doing it through club recruiting or, if it’s through the normal admissions process, THEN they’re working through the school counselors and they’re likely some sort of walk on.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington is going down this weekend. FVU is going to take care of business!

so uhhhhhh hows it going?

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Cap A is here in full uniform. How embarrassing

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Anonymous wrote:Cap A is here in full uniform. How embarrassing

What was the score?

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Anonymous wrote:Cap A is here in full uniform. How embarrassing

What was the score?

We are all Capt Arlington. Take the L

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Anonymous wrote:Cap A is here in full uniform. How embarrassing

What was the score?

Arlington 12 won.

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Capt Arlington had a wedgie for most of the first half when Union had their best player in goal and led 1-0.

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Anonymous wrote:Capt Arlington had a wedgie for most of the first half when Union had their best player in goal and led 1-0.

Lmao. Goalie didnt make a difference. Same play caught first GK. Union couldnt make adjustments and same play caught them 4 more times.

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First goalie was good 1-1 at the break then they put in the backup and it was Captain A Power Up Time. She blocked a lot of nice shots but the secondary goalie gave up the game. Coach couldn’t adjust parents was being warned.

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Anonymous wrote:First goalie was good 1-1 at the break then they put in the backup and it was Captain A Power Up Time. She blocked a lot of nice shots but the secondary goalie gave up the game. Coach couldn’t adjust parents was being warned.

ARL found kink armor and you were exploited. Defense was terrible. Took a little longer in first half but once they found it, it was all over.

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Anonymous wrote:First goalie was good 1-1 at the break then they put in the backup and it was Captain A Power Up Time. She blocked a lot of nice shots but the secondary goalie gave up the game. Coach couldn’t adjust parents was being warned.

ARL found kink armor and you were exploited. Defense was terrible. Took a little longer in first half but once they found it, it was all over.

"Kink armor," is thst like a leather suit or chaps or something?

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Capt Arlington please weigh in