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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD has been playing since U9 for a club that's ok but not great. She started on the lowest team, and made her way to the middle team more recently.  She's currently U15, 8th grade, so she's got 5 more years of play before college.  She's probably average to slightly above average for the team she plays on. Maybe she'll improve, maybe she won't. She goes to a good school and does well, so academically I think she'll have a pretty good shot at a lot of colleges. She's probably best suited to a smaller D1, liberal arts or Ivy, if I had to guess.  So not a school with a huge soccer program or a top team or anything like that.

We're not an especially soccer-savvy family, so I'm just coming to realize, I think, what her chances of getting to play in college might be, and it's looking a little grim. So my question is, is there a path to college-level play for a kid like her at a small D1 school? And if so, what, specifically, can we do to improve her chances? And finally, is the whole recruitment industry (getting a video made, getting recommendations, id clinics, etc.) important for her, or is it overkill at the level we're talking about? Or would it all just be pointless at her intermediate level of play?

Thanks for any thoughts you have!

If she is not on the top team at a good club (ECNL, DA or something just below that level of play) she will not be recruited to play on a D1 - team period.

D3 is still a possibility if she works really hard over the next 3 years and ends of playing on a more competitive team than where she is now.   There are over 400 division 3 schools and I know girls who played on a second teams at a good club, and on a first team at a weak clubs, who are playing Division 3 soccer.  They are not playing on the better academic or better soccer playing Division 3 teams, however, like  the NESCAC schools.

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