D1 school

[Anonymous]

My son is a Junior HS and he is been playing soccer in ECNL RL. However, he want to go to D1 school(he got pick up some D3 colleges on his Sophomore year in ID camps/Varsity player in HS). If he join the ECNL in 2025, is it too late to be pick by D1 school? I know that some Junior ECNL player got pick up by D1 school already.

[Anonymous]

Some D1 schools have terrible soccer teams and some D2 and D3 schools have great soccer teams. It all depends on what the kid wants from school.
Pick the school based on what he would want to do if he got hit by a bus his first day at school and couldn't ever play soccer again.

[Anonymous]

Has he been communicating with D1 coaches? Sent film? It's late to be starting the process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some D1 schools have terrible soccer teams and some D2 and D3 schools have great soccer teams.

Why do you have to pick on Radford like that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some D1 schools have terrible soccer teams and some D2 and D3 schools have great soccer teams.

Why do you have to pick on Radford like that?

Ouch Burnnnnn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son is a Junior HS and he is been playing soccer in ECNL RL. However, he want to go to D1 school(he got pick up some D3 colleges on his Sophomore year in ID camps/Varsity player in HS). If he join the ECNL in 2025, is it too late to be pick by D1 school? I know that some Junior ECNL player got pick up by D1 school already.

This is almost impossible these days.

Read this:

https://chriscillizza.substack.com/p/college-soccer-is-in-crisis

[Anonymous]

I'm not OP but my DD has played travel for many years. She is second/third team material but grades are A student. Should I even consider soccer in her college application?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some D1 schools have terrible soccer teams and some D2 and D3 schools have great soccer teams. It all depends on what the kid wants from school.
Pick the school based on what he would want to do if he got hit by a bus his first day at school and couldn't ever play soccer again.

Most D1 schools have terrible soccer teams. D1 usually just means better measurable- bigger, stronger, faster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not OP but my DD has played travel for many years. She is second/third team material but grades are A student. Should I even consider soccer in her college application?

As an extracurricular activity? Sure, why not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not OP but my DD has played travel for many years. She is second/third team material but grades are A student. Should I even consider soccer in her college application?

Absolutely! An ACC team/school? No. A private/small D3? If she gets herself seen and is a decent player she might.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has he been communicating with D1 coaches? Sent film? It's late to be starting the process.

He made a video and sent to D1 and D2 coaches. And one coach replied it out of twenty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some D1 schools have terrible soccer teams and some D2 and D3 schools have great soccer teams. It all depends on what the kid wants from school.
Pick the school based on what he would want to do if he got hit by a bus his first day at school and couldn't ever play soccer again.

Thank you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son is a Junior HS and he is been playing soccer in ECNL RL. However, he want to go to D1 school(he got pick up some D3 colleges on his Sophomore year in ID camps/Varsity player in HS). If he join the ECNL in 2025, is it too late to be pick by D1 school? I know that some Junior ECNL player got pick up by D1 school already.

pretty much its over for him from D1. They know who they want pretty early and if you aren't hearing much during summer going into junior yr, you aren't on an interest list. RL teams don't go to the show cases needed and if they do, they are in a low bracket where no colleges show.

He's too old to get picked up by a ECNL team. And obviously wasn't at the caliber early enough to displace a kid now.

Lastly D1 schools have a large number of international pipelines and are using portal.

My advice if he wants D1, try to walk on. He also needs to reach out to schools and coaches himself. Or as many have said ….D2 and D3 schools are just as good. And many can and will beat D1 schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son is a Junior HS and he is been playing soccer in ECNL RL. However, he want to go to D1 school(he got pick up some D3 colleges on his Sophomore year in ID camps/Varsity player in HS). If he join the ECNL in 2025, is it too late to be pick by D1 school? I know that some Junior ECNL player got pick up by D1 school already.

pretty much its over for him from D1. They know who they want pretty early and if you aren't hearing much during summer going into junior yr, you aren't on an interest list. RL teams don't go to the show cases needed and if they do, they are in a low bracket where no colleges show.

He's too old to get picked up by a ECNL team. And obviously wasn't at the caliber early enough to displace a kid now.

Lastly D1 schools have a large number of international pipelines and are using portal.

My advice if he wants D1, try to walk on. He also needs to reach out to schools and coaches himself. Or as many have said ….D2 and D3 schools are just as good. And many can and will beat D1 schools.

The only thing I will agree wirh is D1 rosters are filled with international students and there are few spots. However, I disagree that it’s too late if a junior has not been recruited yet. Some don’t commit until senior year. Partly it depends on position but also gender. Girls soccer recruitment happens earlier than boys so I wonder if this poster has a daughter. It’s definitely not too old to move to ECNL either but obviously it does depend on ability.

[Anonymous]

If you look at D1 rosters, there is a good number of transfers from D2 and D3 schools. That would probably be the best route to try at this point.