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[quote=Godot]With this being my DD’s final club soccer year, and in some ways to test out the new user-name-required forum, i thought I’d throw a classic question out there. My DD is graduating from high school and will be playing in college. So the youth soccer journey ended where she wanted it to, but we definitely learned a few things along the way that might be useful to the younger kids looking for the same goal.  
- Being at an ECNL and maybe a GA club matters for college recruiting and it matters sooner than you think. Like, 8th grade it starts mattering.  
- WHICH ECNL/GA club matters nowhere near as much as earlier threads might lead you to believe. 
- Be honest with yourself about how good (or not) your DD is. Get an opinion on that from someone outside of your club structure or a club that’s trying to woo your DD away if you can’t realistically gauge it yourself. All of the girls who play ECNL/GA and also in other leagues can play college soccer somewhere, but you need to know if you’re way off base with whether your DD is good enough to play at a top 30 NCAA D1 college.  
- Targeting schools early on also matters. Your DD needs to be in contact with a narrow list of college coaches by December of her sophomore year in HS if she does think she can play at one of those top 30s, or even the top 50/70 soccer schools. Which includes all the Ivys, basically.  
- Grades really matter.

I wish I had known a few of these things five years ago! Any other thoughts out there? [/quote]

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