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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is interested in ECNL anymore. [/quote]

All the good players on my DD’s ECNL team left for GA.[/quote]

I get that this is a troll post, but for other parents who might stumble onto this thread:

For now, ECNL is the top of the girls soccer pyramid for college recruiting. This is in large part to limited college coaching travel and recruiting budgets coupled with ECNL executives doing a very good job of making showcases easy to navigate for college coaches who attend.

None of this speaks to the quality of ECNL clubs or coaches. Many GA clubs and coaches have great programs and may be a good fit for your kid. Your GA team may in fact be significantly better than many ECNL teams. None of that matters. College coaches recruit players, not teams.

The side effect of ECNL having a better showcase program for college coaches is that ECNL has greater depth and, ON AVERAGE, better players; or at least players who can handle the expected physicality and speed of play that is normal in college.

If your kid wants to play in college and has offers from both a GA team and ECNL teams- congrats, your kid is pretty good at soccer. If your kid is already in HS, the coach only sorta matters, take ECNL. If your kid is only 12 or 13, then you have to figure out which coach will be better, commute times, cost, etc.

My first DD went GA to ECNL. It made a difference in recruiting. Second kid is finishing in an ECNL club, so I can’t speak to GA this year, but she did decide to stick with a coach she was sick of just for recruiting reasons.
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