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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None. My dd played for a club other than Metro and Paramount and was still heavily recruited by D1. [/quote]
If your goal is P4 D1 then Metro Travel is a good target to go for.  There is a sweet spot though to play for them if recruiting is your focus.  If you aren't playing for them at U16 and then recruited/committed in the summer, then its highly unlikely you will get a P4 offer.  This is especially true in the new era of roster limits and a much more active transfer portal where getting a full D1 scholarship is getting tougher.  Even if you are playing for them at U16, there are still number of players that go lower D1 and/or higher D3.

Metro travel is still very good and if you want that type of club experience is worth pursuing.  But if your goal is non-P4 D1 or D3, then there are a lot of pathways to get there now. The diversity of clubs with D1 commits last year shows that players with college aspirations have more options than they have ever had.  Blue Ridge, Columbia, LEVBC, Metro Travel, MD Jrs, MOCO, MVSA, Paramount, VA Elite and VA Jrs, all had D1 commits for the class of 2025.[/quote]

It is not true that you have to play for Metro to go to a P4 school. VA Jrs had two 2027 players commit to UVA. Paramount had 2027 players commit to Penn State (the defending national champions) and Vanderbilt. As far as I'm aware, VA JRS and Paramount are ahead of Metro in the P4 [i]2027[/i] commitment battle as Metro only has one class of 2027 committed to a P4 school (UCLA). I'm not trying to say any one of these clubs is better than the other. All I'm saying is that it's a false narrative that you have to play for Metro to go to a P4 school. That may have been the case 5-10 years ago, but it no longer is (and the fact that this is no longer the case is great for the Region, because now players don't have to ride the bench at Metro or Paramount)[/quote]

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