The travel bar... would they make their high school team

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Anonymous wrote:While a HS junior, DS was able to play internationally against the likes of FC Zenit, play u23 summer club ball with and against D1 talent and earn a u23/first team offer from a USL2 club outside our area, but yet not make his HS varsity team. The bar is EXTREMELY high in PW County!

Thats because PWC HS sports are very political!! Do you have another kid at the school? Do you live in the same neighborhood as coach? Is a sibling on another sports team? In Western PWC coaches do NOT pick by ability - they pick by politics.

All HS soccer is political. I've seen it in private and public.

Political if kids don’t make the team

Not sure that it is political but the coaches generally are not good soccer coaches and can only coach to the lowest common denominator style wise so they often select those who are the lowest common denominators as players. If they spend more time at tryouts running sprints than scrimmages your kid is in for a very special time.

Our team had the players to play good soccer, but it was a large roster and not once did they use the best combo. They could have controlled right down the midfield but never had the smartest most finessed players together on the field at the same time.

A good coach would have seen that because the very brief time these kids were on the field together the play was demonstratively so much better. There are some games they could have won, but never took some of these kids off the bench while they kept getting crushed, beaten and making egregious errors—the kind most kids stopped making in early rec soccer.

And the worst part is those parents just accuse you of being bitter and sour grapes when they really have no clue.

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Anonymous wrote:While a HS junior, DS was able to play internationally against the likes of FC Zenit, play u23 summer club ball with and against D1 talent and earn a u23/first team offer from a USL2 club outside our area, but yet not make his HS varsity team. The bar is EXTREMELY high in PW County!

Thats because PWC HS sports are very political!! Do you have another kid at the school? Do you live in the same neighborhood as coach? Is a sibling on another sports team? In Western PWC coaches do NOT pick by ability - they pick by politics.

All HS soccer is political. I've seen it in private and public.

Political if kids don’t make the team

Not sure that it is political but the coaches generally are not good soccer coaches and can only coach to the lowest common denominator style wise so they often select those who are the lowest common denominators as players. If they spend more time at tryouts running sprints than scrimmages your kid is in for a very special time.

Our team had the players to play good soccer, but it was a large roster and not once did they use the best combo. They could have controlled right down the midfield but never had the smartest most finessed players together on the field at the same time.

A good coach would have seen that because the very brief time these kids were on the field together the play was demonstratively so much better. There are some games they could have won, but never took some of these kids off the bench while they kept getting crushed, beaten and making egregious errors—the kind most kids stopped making in early rec soccer.

And the worst part is those parents just accuse you of being bitter and sour grapes when they really have no clue.

What exactly are you expecting from high school sports? The coaches all have day jobs and are basically volunteering so kids and the school can have teams. If they were professional coaches they wouldn’t be teaching in high school or coaching HS sports. Outside of football and basketball, high school sports are rec leagues. Let the kids have some fun playing and let the parents enjoy watching. Not everything needs to be about sucking all the fun out to win meaningless games. Do you also spend time at schools and criticize how kids are organizing and performing during recess and PE?

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Anonymous wrote:While a HS junior, DS was able to play internationally against the likes of FC Zenit, play u23 summer club ball with and against D1 talent and earn a u23/first team offer from a USL2 club outside our area, but yet not make his HS varsity team. The bar is EXTREMELY high in PW County!

Thats because PWC HS sports are very political!! Do you have another kid at the school? Do you live in the same neighborhood as coach? Is a sibling on another sports team? In Western PWC coaches do NOT pick by ability - they pick by politics.

All HS soccer is political. I've seen it in private and public.

Political if kids don’t make the team

Not sure that it is political but the coaches generally are not good soccer coaches and can only coach to the lowest common denominator style wise so they often select those who are the lowest common denominators as players. If they spend more time at tryouts running sprints than scrimmages your kid is in for a very special time.

Our team had the players to play good soccer, but it was a large roster and not once did they use the best combo. They could have controlled right down the midfield but never had the smartest most finessed players together on the field at the same time.

A good coach would have seen that because the very brief time these kids were on the field together the play was demonstratively so much better. There are some games they could have won, but never took some of these kids off the bench while they kept getting crushed, beaten and making egregious errors—the kind most kids stopped making in early rec soccer.

And the worst part is those parents just accuse you of being bitter and sour grapes when they really have no clue.

What exactly are you expecting from high school sports? The coaches all have day jobs and are basically volunteering so kids and the school can have teams. If they were professional coaches they wouldn’t be teaching in high school or coaching HS sports. Outside of football and basketball, high school sports are rec leagues. Let the kids have some fun playing and let the parents enjoy watching. Not everything needs to be about sucking all the fun out to win meaningless games. Do you also spend time at schools and criticize how kids are organizing and performing during recess and PE?

Just don't say that it isn't "political" when people tell you that the best team or lineup is not actually being rostered or even selected. And don't get upset when people tell you that the product on the field often times sucks.

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Anonymous wrote:While a HS junior, DS was able to play internationally against the likes of FC Zenit, play u23 summer club ball with and against D1 talent and earn a u23/first team offer from a USL2 club outside our area, but yet not make his HS varsity team. The bar is EXTREMELY high in PW County!

Thats because PWC HS sports are very political!! Do you have another kid at the school? Do you live in the same neighborhood as coach? Is a sibling on another sports team? In Western PWC coaches do NOT pick by ability - they pick by politics.

All HS soccer is political. I've seen it in private and public.

Political if kids don’t make the team

Not sure that it is political but the coaches generally are not good soccer coaches and can only coach to the lowest common denominator style wise so they often select those who are the lowest common denominators as players. If they spend more time at tryouts running sprints than scrimmages your kid is in for a very special time.

Our team had the players to play good soccer, but it was a large roster and not once did they use the best combo. They could have controlled right down the midfield but never had the smartest most finessed players together on the field at the same time.

A good coach would have seen that because the very brief time these kids were on the field together the play was demonstratively so much better. There are some games they could have won, but never took some of these kids off the bench while they kept getting crushed, beaten and making egregious errors—the kind most kids stopped making in early rec soccer.

And the worst part is those parents just accuse you of being bitter and sour grapes when they really have no clue.

What exactly are you expecting from high school sports? The coaches all have day jobs and are basically volunteering so kids and the school can have teams. If they were professional coaches they wouldn’t be teaching in high school or coaching HS sports. Outside of football and basketball, high school sports are rec leagues. Let the kids have some fun playing and let the parents enjoy watching. Not everything needs to be about sucking all the fun out to win meaningless games. Do you also spend time at schools and criticize how kids are organizing and performing during recess and PE?

Just don't say that it isn't "political" when people tell you that the best team or lineup is not actually being rostered or even selected. And don't get upset when people tell you that the product on the field often times sucks.

Seniors pick the team, coaches do what they say

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Anonymous wrote:While a HS junior, DS was able to play internationally against the likes of FC Zenit, play u23 summer club ball with and against D1 talent and earn a u23/first team offer from a USL2 club outside our area, but yet not make his HS varsity team. The bar is EXTREMELY high in PW County!

Thats because PWC HS sports are very political!! Do you have another kid at the school? Do you live in the same neighborhood as coach? Is a sibling on another sports team? In Western PWC coaches do NOT pick by ability - they pick by politics.

All HS soccer is political. I've seen it in private and public.

Political if kids don’t make the team

Not sure that it is political but the coaches generally are not good soccer coaches and can only coach to the lowest common denominator style wise so they often select those who are the lowest common denominators as players. If they spend more time at tryouts running sprints than scrimmages your kid is in for a very special time.

Our team had the players to play good soccer, but it was a large roster and not once did they use the best combo. They could have controlled right down the midfield but never had the smartest most finessed players together on the field at the same time.

A good coach would have seen that because the very brief time these kids were on the field together the play was demonstratively so much better. There are some games they could have won, but never took some of these kids off the bench while they kept getting crushed, beaten and making egregious errors—the kind most kids stopped making in early rec soccer.

And the worst part is those parents just accuse you of being bitter and sour grapes when they really have no clue.

What exactly are you expecting from high school sports? The coaches all have day jobs and are basically volunteering so kids and the school can have teams. If they were professional coaches they wouldn’t be teaching in high school or coaching HS sports. Outside of football and basketball, high school sports are rec leagues. Let the kids have some fun playing and let the parents enjoy watching. Not everything needs to be about sucking all the fun out to win meaningless games. Do you also spend time at schools and criticize how kids are organizing and performing during recess and PE?

Just don't say that it isn't "political" when people tell you that the best team or lineup is not actually being rostered or even selected. And don't get upset when people tell you that the product on the field often times sucks.

Coaches will select teams that will give the school the highest chance to win. It’s not a conspiracy if a player doesn’t make the team

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A lot of them do a crappy job in selection as evidenced by results..

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Anonymous wrote:While a HS junior, DS was able to play internationally against the likes of FC Zenit, play u23 summer club ball with and against D1 talent and earn a u23/first team offer from a USL2 club outside our area, but yet not make his HS varsity team. The bar is EXTREMELY high in PW County!

Thats because PWC HS sports are very political!! Do you have another kid at the school? Do you live in the same neighborhood as coach? Is a sibling on another sports team? In Western PWC coaches do NOT pick by ability - they pick by politics.

All HS soccer is political. I've seen it in private and public.

Political if kids don’t make the team

Not sure that it is political but the coaches generally are not good soccer coaches and can only coach to the lowest common denominator style wise so they often select those who are the lowest common denominators as players. If they spend more time at tryouts running sprints than scrimmages your kid is in for a very special time.

Our team had the players to play good soccer, but it was a large roster and not once did they use the best combo. They could have controlled right down the midfield but never had the smartest most finessed players together on the field at the same time.

A good coach would have seen that because the very brief time these kids were on the field together the play was demonstratively so much better. There are some games they could have won, but never took some of these kids off the bench while they kept getting crushed, beaten and making egregious errors—the kind most kids stopped making in early rec soccer.

And the worst part is those parents just accuse you of being bitter and sour grapes when they really have no clue.

What exactly are you expecting from high school sports? The coaches all have day jobs and are basically volunteering so kids and the school can have teams. If they were professional coaches they wouldn’t be teaching in high school or coaching HS sports. Outside of football and basketball, high school sports are rec leagues. Let the kids have some fun playing and let the parents enjoy watching. Not everything needs to be about sucking all the fun out to win meaningless games. Do you also spend time at schools and criticize how kids are organizing and performing during recess and PE?

Just don't say that it isn't "political" when people tell you that the best team or lineup is not actually being rostered or even selected. And don't get upset when people tell you that the product on the field often times sucks.

Coaches will select teams that will give the school the highest chance to win. It’s not a conspiracy if a player doesn’t make the team

The problem is the coaches usually suck.

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Anonymous wrote:While a HS junior, DS was able to play internationally against the likes of FC Zenit, play u23 summer club ball with and against D1 talent and earn a u23/first team offer from a USL2 club outside our area, but yet not make his HS varsity team. The bar is EXTREMELY high in PW County!

Thats because PWC HS sports are very political!! Do you have another kid at the school? Do you live in the same neighborhood as coach? Is a sibling on another sports team? In Western PWC coaches do NOT pick by ability - they pick by politics.

All HS soccer is political. I've seen it in private and public.

Political if kids don’t make the team

Not sure that it is political but the coaches generally are not good soccer coaches and can only coach to the lowest common denominator style wise so they often select those who are the lowest common denominators as players. If they spend more time at tryouts running sprints than scrimmages your kid is in for a very special time.

Our team had the players to play good soccer, but it was a large roster and not once did they use the best combo. They could have controlled right down the midfield but never had the smartest most finessed players together on the field at the same time.

A good coach would have seen that because the very brief time these kids were on the field together the play was demonstratively so much better. There are some games they could have won, but never took some of these kids off the bench while they kept getting crushed, beaten and making egregious errors—the kind most kids stopped making in early rec soccer.

And the worst part is those parents just accuse you of being bitter and sour grapes when they really have no clue.

What exactly are you expecting from high school sports? The coaches all have day jobs and are basically volunteering so kids and the school can have teams. If they were professional coaches they wouldn’t be teaching in high school or coaching HS sports. Outside of football and basketball, high school sports are rec leagues. Let the kids have some fun playing and let the parents enjoy watching. Not everything needs to be about sucking all the fun out to win meaningless games. Do you also spend time at schools and criticize how kids are organizing and performing during recess and PE?

Just don't say that it isn't "political" when people tell you that the best team or lineup is not actually being rostered or even selected. And don't get upset when people tell you that the product on the field often times sucks.

I’m not the one that suggested it isn’t political. Of course it is political. Most everything in this world is political. Very few places that are a pure, perfect meritocracy (maybe professional sports?). That’s not exactly a hot take you have. Favorites, connections, biases come into play everywhere why would kids sports be any different?

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Anonymous wrote:While a HS junior, DS was able to play internationally against the likes of FC Zenit, play u23 summer club ball with and against D1 talent and earn a u23/first team offer from a USL2 club outside our area, but yet not make his HS varsity team. The bar is EXTREMELY high in PW County!

Thats because PWC HS sports are very political!! Do you have another kid at the school? Do you live in the same neighborhood as coach? Is a sibling on another sports team? In Western PWC coaches do NOT pick by ability - they pick by politics.

All HS soccer is political. I've seen it in private and public.

Political if kids don’t make the team

Not sure that it is political but the coaches generally are not good soccer coaches and can only coach to the lowest common denominator style wise so they often select those who are the lowest common denominators as players. If they spend more time at tryouts running sprints than scrimmages your kid is in for a very special time.

Our team had the players to play good soccer, but it was a large roster and not once did they use the best combo. They could have controlled right down the midfield but never had the smartest most finessed players together on the field at the same time.

A good coach would have seen that because the very brief time these kids were on the field together the play was demonstratively so much better. There are some games they could have won, but never took some of these kids off the bench while they kept getting crushed, beaten and making egregious errors—the kind most kids stopped making in early rec soccer.

And the worst part is those parents just accuse you of being bitter and sour grapes when they really have no clue.

What exactly are you expecting from high school sports? The coaches all have day jobs and are basically volunteering so kids and the school can have teams. If they were professional coaches they wouldn’t be teaching in high school or coaching HS sports. Outside of football and basketball, high school sports are rec leagues. Let the kids have some fun playing and let the parents enjoy watching. Not everything needs to be about sucking all the fun out to win meaningless games. Do you also spend time at schools and criticize how kids are organizing and performing during recess and PE?

Just don't say that it isn't "political" when people tell you that the best team or lineup is not actually being rostered or even selected. And don't get upset when people tell you that the product on the field often times sucks.

Coaches will select teams that will give the school the highest chance to win. It’s not a conspiracy if a player doesn’t make the team

The problem is the coaches usually suck.

Translated, “me or my kid didn’t make the HS team, so this is my defense mechanism.” Or, possibly, “I am a travel coach and want you to realize that the money you pay me is well spent.”

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Anonymous wrote:While a HS junior, DS was able to play internationally against the likes of FC Zenit, play u23 summer club ball with and against D1 talent and earn a u23/first team offer from a USL2 club outside our area, but yet not make his HS varsity team. The bar is EXTREMELY high in PW County!

Thats because PWC HS sports are very political!! Do you have another kid at the school? Do you live in the same neighborhood as coach? Is a sibling on another sports team? In Western PWC coaches do NOT pick by ability - they pick by politics.

All HS soccer is political. I've seen it in private and public.

Political if kids don’t make the team

Not sure that it is political but the coaches generally are not good soccer coaches and can only coach to the lowest common denominator style wise so they often select those who are the lowest common denominators as players. If they spend more time at tryouts running sprints than scrimmages your kid is in for a very special time.

Our team had the players to play good soccer, but it was a large roster and not once did they use the best combo. They could have controlled right down the midfield but never had the smartest most finessed players together on the field at the same time.

A good coach would have seen that because the very brief time these kids were on the field together the play was demonstratively so much better. There are some games they could have won, but never took some of these kids off the bench while they kept getting crushed, beaten and making egregious errors—the kind most kids stopped making in early rec soccer.

And the worst part is those parents just accuse you of being bitter and sour grapes when they really have no clue.

What exactly are you expecting from high school sports? The coaches all have day jobs and are basically volunteering so kids and the school can have teams. If they were professional coaches they wouldn’t be teaching in high school or coaching HS sports. Outside of football and basketball, high school sports are rec leagues. Let the kids have some fun playing and let the parents enjoy watching. Not everything needs to be about sucking all the fun out to win meaningless games. Do you also spend time at schools and criticize how kids are organizing and performing during recess and PE?

Just don't say that it isn't "political" when people tell you that the best team or lineup is not actually being rostered or even selected. And don't get upset when people tell you that the product on the field often times sucks.

I’m not the one that suggested it isn’t political. Of course it is political. Most everything in this world is political. Very few places that are a pure, perfect meritocracy (maybe professional sports?). That’s not exactly a hot take you have.[/b] Favorites, connections, biases come into play everywhere why would kids sports be any different?[b]

It’s just sad for the kids involved to not be selected for a school team especially if they chose a school in part to play for the team. Politics suck at every level-good life lesson or no..

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Anonymous wrote:While a HS junior, DS was able to play internationally against the likes of FC Zenit, play u23 summer club ball with and against D1 talent and earn a u23/first team offer from a USL2 club outside our area, but yet not make his HS varsity team. The bar is EXTREMELY high in PW County!

Thats because PWC HS sports are very political!! Do you have another kid at the school? Do you live in the same neighborhood as coach? Is a sibling on another sports team? In Western PWC coaches do NOT pick by ability - they pick by politics.

All HS soccer is political. I've seen it in private and public.

Political if kids don’t make the team

Not sure that it is political but the coaches generally are not good soccer coaches and can only coach to the lowest common denominator style wise so they often select those who are the lowest common denominators as players. If they spend more time at tryouts running sprints than scrimmages your kid is in for a very special time.

Our team had the players to play good soccer, but it was a large roster and not once did they use the best combo. They could have controlled right down the midfield but never had the smartest most finessed players together on the field at the same time.

A good coach would have seen that because the very brief time these kids were on the field together the play was demonstratively so much better. There are some games they could have won, but never took some of these kids off the bench while they kept getting crushed, beaten and making egregious errors—the kind most kids stopped making in early rec soccer.

And the worst part is those parents just accuse you of being bitter and sour grapes when they really have no clue.

What exactly are you expecting from high school sports? The coaches all have day jobs and are basically volunteering so kids and the school can have teams. If they were professional coaches they wouldn’t be teaching in high school or coaching HS sports. Outside of football and basketball, high school sports are rec leagues. Let the kids have some fun playing and let the parents enjoy watching. Not everything needs to be about sucking all the fun out to win meaningless games. Do you also spend time at schools and criticize how kids are organizing and performing during recess and PE?

Just don't say that it isn't "political" when people tell you that the best team or lineup is not actually being rostered or even selected. And don't get upset when people tell you that the product on the field often times sucks.

Coaches will select teams that will give the school the highest chance to win. It’s not a conspiracy if a player doesn’t make the team

That’s what should happen. Outside variables can play a role

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Anonymous wrote:While a HS junior, DS was able to play internationally against the likes of FC Zenit, play u23 summer club ball with and against D1 talent and earn a u23/first team offer from a USL2 club outside our area, but yet not make his HS varsity team. The bar is EXTREMELY high in PW County!

Thats because PWC HS sports are very political!! Do you have another kid at the school? Do you live in the same neighborhood as coach? Is a sibling on another sports team? In Western PWC coaches do NOT pick by ability - they pick by politics.

All HS soccer is political. I've seen it in private and public.

Political if kids don’t make the team

Not sure that it is political but the coaches generally are not good soccer coaches and can only coach to the lowest common denominator style wise so they often select those who are the lowest common denominators as players. If they spend more time at tryouts running sprints than scrimmages your kid is in for a very special time.

Our team had the players to play good soccer, but it was a large roster and not once did they use the best combo. They could have controlled right down the midfield but never had the smartest most finessed players together on the field at the same time.

A good coach would have seen that because the very brief time these kids were on the field together the play was demonstratively so much better. There are some games they could have won, but never took some of these kids off the bench while they kept getting crushed, beaten and making egregious errors—the kind most kids stopped making in early rec soccer.

And the worst part is those parents just accuse you of being bitter and sour grapes when they really have no clue.

What exactly are you expecting from high school sports? The coaches all have day jobs and are basically volunteering so kids and the school can have teams. If they were professional coaches they wouldn’t be teaching in high school or coaching HS sports. Outside of football and basketball, high school sports are rec leagues. Let the kids have some fun playing and let the parents enjoy watching. Not everything needs to be about sucking all the fun out to win meaningless games. Do you also spend time at schools and criticize how kids are organizing and performing during recess and PE?

Just don't say that it isn't "political" when people tell you that the best team or lineup is not actually being rostered or even selected. And don't get upset when people tell you that the product on the field often times sucks.

I’m not the one that suggested it isn’t political. Of course it is political. Most everything in this world is political. Very few places that are a pure, perfect meritocracy (maybe professional sports?). That’s not exactly a hot take you have.[/b] Favorites, connections, biases come into play everywhere why would kids sports be any different?[b]

It’s just sad for the kids involved to not be selected for a school team especially if they chose a school in part to play for the team. Politics suck at every level-good life lesson or no..

Well someone needs to be cut either way so it’s the same number of sad kids not making it no matter how teams are formed.

Who chooses a high school for the soccer team? Don’t you just attend the school that is zoned for your neighborhood? Unless you are talking about private schools in which case it still seems like a bad reason to choose a school just for the team.

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Anonymous wrote:While a HS junior, DS was able to play internationally against the likes of FC Zenit, play u23 summer club ball with and against D1 talent and earn a u23/first team offer from a USL2 club outside our area, but yet not make his HS varsity team. The bar is EXTREMELY high in PW County!

Thats because PWC HS sports are very political!! Do you have another kid at the school? Do you live in the same neighborhood as coach? Is a sibling on another sports team? In Western PWC coaches do NOT pick by ability - they pick by politics.

All HS soccer is political. I've seen it in private and public.

Political if kids don’t make the team

Not sure that it is political but the coaches generally are not good soccer coaches and can only coach to the lowest common denominator style wise so they often select those who are the lowest common denominators as players. If they spend more time at tryouts running sprints than scrimmages your kid is in for a very special time.

Our team had the players to play good soccer, but it was a large roster and not once did they use the best combo. They could have controlled right down the midfield but never had the smartest most finessed players together on the field at the same time.

A good coach would have seen that because the very brief time these kids were on the field together the play was demonstratively so much better. There are some games they could have won, but never took some of these kids off the bench while they kept getting crushed, beaten and making egregious errors—the kind most kids stopped making in early rec soccer.

And the worst part is those parents just accuse you of being bitter and sour grapes when they really have no clue.

What exactly are you expecting from high school sports? The coaches all have day jobs and are basically volunteering so kids and the school can have teams. If they were professional coaches they wouldn’t be teaching in high school or coaching HS sports. Outside of football and basketball, high school sports are rec leagues. Let the kids have some fun playing and let the parents enjoy watching. Not everything needs to be about sucking all the fun out to win meaningless games. Do you also spend time at schools and criticize how kids are organizing and performing during recess and PE?

Just don't say that it isn't "political" when people tell you that the best team or lineup is not actually being rostered or even selected. And don't get upset when people tell you that the product on the field often times sucks.

I’m not the one that suggested it isn’t political. Of course it is political. Most everything in this world is political. Very few places that are a pure, perfect meritocracy (maybe professional sports?). That’s not exactly a hot take you have.[/b] Favorites, connections, biases come into play everywhere why would kids sports be any different?[b]

It’s just sad for the kids involved to not be selected for a school team especially if they chose a school in part to play for the team. Politics suck at every level-good life lesson or no..

Well someone needs to be cut either way so it’s the same number of sad kids not making it no matter how teams are formed.

Who chooses a high school for the soccer team? Don’t you just attend the school that is zoned for your neighborhood? Unless you are talking about private schools in which case it still seems like a bad reason to choose a school just for the team.

+1

Choose schools for academics

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Anonymous wrote:While a HS junior, DS was able to play internationally against the likes of FC Zenit, play u23 summer club ball with and against D1 talent and earn a u23/first team offer from a USL2 club outside our area, but yet not make his HS varsity team. The bar is EXTREMELY high in PW County!

He played USL2 but not HS Varsity?

Making the high school varsity team at a big high school in the dmv area depends on a lot of things. Really good players get cut all the time, especially once they hit junior year. It depends on what positions they have too many of, what type of players the coach prefers, etc. The coach has many players who are all pretty much at the same level and has to cut some of them. At our high school, it is often surprising who gets cut and who makes the team.

This is what we figure - she seems to prefer big/fast/super athletic players for the HS team. Can't argue with coach's success! DS is good size, not huge, very technical and abhors the kick and run style so many resort to for a W. He received an offer from a USL2 club in NJ. We couldn't figure out rooming/moving him to online HS at the start of the pandemic so he didn't do it.

Did your son refuse to change clubs in order to play for her travel team? We all know who she is and what she does. I’m surprised it has not caught up with her yet.

WELL...... does she expect her players to switch to the new club now!!??

[Anonymous]

^ who is “she”?