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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bethesda girls top team are all going to play at great schools.  They must be miserable.[/quote]

Wow, incredibly dumb post. Must be a Ulittle parent.

Only a handful go to “great schools” from each year, whether Bethesda or Virginia Union. Each club could consider themselves lucky if they had 5 players go to P5 schools every year. Even top clubs like Solar or PDA does not put every girl in a P5 school. I would say expect maybe 5 players to go P5 with the rest being sprinkled between small D1, D2 and D3 schools. And this is for top performing teams. Years like ‘07 and ‘09 may only have one or two with top college commitments. The same can be said about any ECNL club in the DMV. Should also be said most of these scholarships will be 50% or less.

This is reality, Bethesda, Union, Pipeline, Arlington, or Loudoun. Sorry.[/quote]

This is very true on the girls side. The thing I did not understand was how bad or an after thought women college soccer was/is. You would think a big name D1 school would easily have a really strong women soccer team. Coaches going out and turning the country upside down for talented girls to recruit. Not the case.
There are maybe 3-8 teams that can win the NCAA in a given year. These teams really do not change much year to year. They really do not recruit. They have a pipeline national team selections or national camps players to pick from. It’s a very small incestuous group of coaches and US soccer staff that keep things the same. 
The rest of the programs are kind of just there. There is no pressure from the school to win, there is very limited money for the coach to go on recruiting trips, the coaches tend to recruit the same type of players from the same areas, etc. So when you look at schools look at the facilities, athletic training plans and staffing level. These vary greatly between schools. Also the coaches overall record. [/quote]

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