Is it possible to just play varsity, no club and play in college?

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Anonymous wrote:Might depend on sport? For baseball so much of recruiting is done via college camps, so participating in those independently can help. Also if you walk onto any team at any college and can help, you're going to make that team. (also for baseball if you can throw 90 mph with movement you'l play d3 most anywhere, regardless of club play.)

I named the sports in the OP. Soccer and lacrosse.

Yeah, no. In neither of those sports can you be competitive for college without playing year-round club sports. You almost make me think you’re a troll or your child must be in low-level travel because anyone whose child was a high-level athlete in either sport would already know this.

I don’t understand why people make such blanket statements.

There are numerous mediocre D3 programs at least for LAX where you can get recruited without playing club.

I think OP’s issue is they want a Williams or a U Chicago D3 and not a Northland (which has an awful D3 LAX team).

Yeah, sorry. When parents talk about having kids play in college it’s usually not for some college no one has heard of and most athletes don’t want to play on a team that is awful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Might depend on sport? For baseball so much of recruiting is done via college camps, so participating in those independently can help. Also if you walk onto any team at any college and can help, you're going to make that team. (also for baseball if you can throw 90 mph with movement you'l play d3 most anywhere, regardless of club play.)

I named the sports in the OP. Soccer and lacrosse.

Yeah, no. In neither of those sports can you be competitive for college without playing year-round club sports. You almost make me think you’re a troll or your child must be in low-level travel because anyone whose child was a high-level athlete in either sport would already know this.

I don’t understand why people make such blanket statements.

There are numerous mediocre D3 programs at least for LAX where you can get recruited without playing club.

I think OP’s issue is they want a Williams or a U Chicago D3 and not a Northland (which has an awful D3 LAX team).

Yeah, sorry. When parents talk about having kids play in college it’s usually not for some college no one has heard of and most athletes don’t want to play on a team that is awful.

Again...they have no problem playing on an awful, high-academic D3 team.

Caltech notoriously hasn't won a varsity basketball game in years, and this year they went 0-25 (as usual).

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I think it depends on the high school. Public high school probably not. But if a kid is playing for one of the big privates then it’s more likely due to visibility and connections. That said, I can’t imagine any top lax players playing on the competitive hs teams not also playing club. Kids would have to have a lot of natural talent to pull the off.

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No for poms. 100% of D1 teams, 95+% of D2 teams, and 80+% of D3 teams come from studios. Most are non-competitive studios.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My HS freshman loves multiple sports, and loves playing for his school. But he wants to play in college.

Has anyone’s kid played a team sport in HS and gone on to play in college, or is club necessary?

Soccer and lacrosse are his two strongest sports.

Yes my son went Div one Lax no club