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[quote=Anonymous]My kid is a sophomore (in MD) and has been on JV for two years so far. They play on the B team (not ECNL either, just local travel and some 3-4 hour stuff). The roster is about 19 and they practice together with the A team which about the same size. Each practice seems to have about 20-25 kids, even now in winter.

Our HS season is fall. In the fall, they don't practice with club and may have a weekend thing or two, but HS also has some weekend stuff and takes priority.

In the winter and spring they show up to club when they can, which TBH is at best 2 practices a week and any games they can make. They have a lot of conflicts with academics, HS soccer (their program runs year round workouts and some practices), and extracurriculars. We don't sweat it, we just communciate (and ask DS to communicate directly) and end up eating a lot of the cost.

We do not believe in two-a-days for injury, burnout, and making room for academics/extracurriculars/rest reasons.

My kid is not a college soccer hopeful - not competitive enough and doesn't want to be a student athlete in college.  For this reason, they do not intend to play club Junior or Senior year. If they miss out Senior year HS because of that, oh well. We have been assured he'll make the Varsity team next year, but with out coach that isn't a two year promise.

I get the sense some clubs cut the lower teams to make rosters larger if they need to. [/quote]

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