Everything you need to know about GA
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For the many new players and parents about to join GA, here is everything you need to know. Facts not opinions.
GA is a national league. There are conferences across the country. Virginia and Maryland clubs play in the Mid-Atlantic conference. Teams go from U13 to U19. When a club plays another club in a league match, every age group plays that same day against the other club. Details about the league are at https://girlsacademyleague.com where you will find the league schedule and standings, Referee guidelines and the all important GA Framework which is the go to for how the conferences and league playoffs work, game substitution rules, age group differences, national event requirements. There are 3 national events throughout the year in December (CA), March (FL), and June (CA). Plan to attend at least 2 if not all 3 of them. At U13-14 teams might need to qualify for the June event but at U15-U19 it's a showcase and all teams go even the last place ones. You'll play 3 games over 4 days. Plan for 5 day trips including plane travel and girls will miss some school. You will spend too much money on overpriced sweatshirts. Many college and US scouts attend these events. For example, December event scouts. There are also regional and talent id events. |
Anonymous
| and no GA hats for sale at the merch store, what A scam! |
Anonymous
| If you are truly interested in DD playing in college and you are in the GA. You need your team to get into the Champions Cup. Each year, two clubs are identified from each conference to participate based on top to bottom performance (from the previous year) across all age groups for the clubs. There are also wild card teams identified at each group for those cases where there is a strong club team at a particular age group but the club overall might not be strong. These teams participate in the Champions Cup, which is a mini-tournament within the Winter Showcase, and culminates in a bracket-style event in Florida with just these top team invited, where college coaches are just watching these 16 teams. In California, the coaches concentrate on the Champions Cup sidelines. I'm not saying they don't/won't watch the other games in California, but the numbers and quality of college coaches watching the Champions Cup teams is night and day from the rest of the showcase teams. |
Anonymous
Hoodies?????? |
Anonymous
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Here's some details on Champions Cup:
https://girlsacademyleague.com/champions-cup/ |
Anonymous
At least bumper stickers?? |
Anonymous
| Who cares that league is 4-5 years away at best to being on par |
Anonymous
There are other threads for that discussion. This thread is about getting information to families who are about to join GA through no choice of their own. |
Anonymous
bumper stickers are so 80's its all about the magnets!!! |
Anonymous
| This is really helpful. Thank you. Average cost for the season, if you have a sense? |
Anonymous
Going to vary some by club, but essentially same price point as the local ECNL teams. They are all about the same, give or take a few hundo. |
Anonymous
20k a year |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Club fees will be comparable to ECNL fees in the range of 3-4k. But you'll pay double that in travel expenses. Flights and hotels in LA ain't cheap. Probably like $10k per year for club fees + travel. |
Anonymous
20k if your good and on a good team |