Explain college sports recruitment to me
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Anonymous
Why would you assume the comment was made by a woman? |
Anonymous
Totally. If you are too stupid to understand it. |
Anonymous
Nope, it is lame. It requires low levels of athleticism, and is for kids who couldn't cut it in any other sport. To slow for track, to short for basketball, lousy at LAX. It is awful. |
Anonymous
Another a*shole parent I see. Maybe, just maybe, some kids actually like the game and choose to play it because they enjoy it. Have you ever watched a competitive field hockey game? I've been to tournaments all over the U.S. for field hockey, and some of the club level teams are no joke. "Too" slow for lax you say? Many of the girls at my kids' HS play field hockey in the fall and LAX in the spring. That's why there are options my friend. Basketball and LAX aren't the only HS sports you know... |
Anonymous
Are you kidding me? Clearly you have never seen a game of field hockey at a competitive level. None of our children have played but I've watched the team at our daughter's high school and, wow, those girls play all out. 25 minute halves, I think, where the girls are running the entire time. The sport requires a tremendous amount of strategy as well as the ability to improvise. And many, many lax players play fall field hockey because there are quite a few transferable skills. Also, you need to hit the books instead of posting here because your use of a preposition as an adverb, not once but twice, is appalling. |
Anonymous
I'm sorry, but just because your kid plays field hockey, and field hockey has "high levels of play", does not mean that it is a great sport. You enjoy it and that is terrific. I find it to be a sport of minimal entertainment value. I don't see stick skill that rivals LAX or even the games ice played cousin. I don't see the power or speed that other sports require and the tactics of simply gaining numbers is not significantly different from other sports to make field hockey stand out or even remotely unique. The ability to change on the fly along with high numbers of players on the field limits the ability of kids to go "all out" for 25 minutes and reduces their endurance for long stretches of the game. I have seen field hockey players, based on their build, who would not last a full half on a soccer field. You are of course free to sell the virtues of field hockey to me and perhaps your arguments will be compelling enough for me to change my mind. I'm of an open mind. |
Anonymous
I think you're confused. In your post above, you've clearly mistaken two different response posts written by two separate people. I am the poster who does not have children who play field hockey but I have watched games played by my daughter's school team. It is my post referencing '25 minutes'. I have no interest in trying to 'sell the virtues of field hockey to' you until you've improved your grammar, you've developed better reading comprehension and you have shown some ability to open your mind. I am not really sure where all this aggressive hate is coming from and I don't appreciate at all how you feel it is appropriate to be so disparaging about another sport or the young woman referenced in the original post about field hockey. I don't even know her and I am offended on her behalf by your inability to simply recognize her achievement and then let it go. You like lax. We get it. I like lax, too; however, I don't have any need to throw down on another sport just because my children don't play it. Honestly, parents like you are the ones who have given lax such a bad rep. Sheesh. |
Anonymous
Nice ad hominem |
Anonymous
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275 schools sponsored varsity level Field Hockey teams during 2015 Athletic Scholarships Average
78 D1 & 31 DII schools DI- Programs can offer 936 Full Scholarships or up to 1404 partial scholarships. DII programs can offer 186 partial scholarships. |
Anonymous
| What an off the rails thread... college recruitment process question devolves into attacks on field hockey. |
Anonymous
College recruitment is sooo sport specific that only in the most general of terms can it be discussed generically. If you want to play college soccer, you most likely can. There are far more opportunities to do so irregardless of scholarships. A sport like field hockey? There are simply not as many programs available. While the amount of field hockey players is certainly less the smaller amount of schools offering the sport still limits ones choice of schools. |
Anonymous
| So how does swim recruitment work? It seems like there was a lot of press this summer about the swimmers from this area ... |
Anonymous
We are also tying to find our way through this right now without much guidance and an Internet search results in a range of suggestions and opinions. Our DS has recently received emails from a couple of D3 coaches. We are trying to get him motivated, but although he says he would like to swim after HS he seems to have little sense of urgency. Not that we feel it is urgent, but we are trying to gain some sense of focus. |
Anonymous
I have to disagree with the bolded statement above. Although there are more college soccer programs than field hockey programs, the number of US girls playing high school soccer is -- according to the NCAA website -- more than 6 times larger than the number of US girls playing high school field hockey. The NCAA website says that 9.7% of US high school field hockey players go on to play in college. Only 7.2% of US girls high school soccer players go on to play in college. One reason the odds are lower for girls HS soccer players going on to play in college is that almost every girls college soccer program recruits/attracts foreign players. So if foreign students make up 10% of the college soccer roster spots, then the real number of spots available for US girls is smaller than it appears from just looking at the number of college programs. I could be wrong, but I don't believe US college field hockey attracts nearly the number of foreign players as US girls college soccer does. |
Anonymous
I said if you want to play college soccer you most likely can. I did not say, if you want to play DI soccer you most likely can. |