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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This discussion is very similar to the Pride 2023 saga several years back.  I am copying a post from another forum that provides some of the cautionary tale:

[quote=Anonymous]This is all rooted in the Pride 2023 class, which arguably had the best HS team in the area that year. That class with the exception of one player all chose to stay together, never even trying out for Capital, and trusting KM would live up to the recruiting promises made to players. Big mistake.

Pride’s recruiting efforts were green and poorly run with that class. The club lost their recruiting director, who went on to be the Head Coach at American. She was great and helpful, but the players were on their first high school year with her. But she had a plan for each player. The former GMU coach who took over simply did not care, had no plan for individual players, and seemed to have a general lack of interest in her job with Pride. KM did nothing to address the issue until it was too late for that class.

The 2023s who have gone on to play in college from that team did all the work on their own. Being the first true recruiting class for Pride they had no history to fall back on, no former recruits from the club to follow, and really no college coach connections to rely on from the club. As a result of all of this the class struggled with little guidance and know-how. The results were not good, and these fell squarely on KM and Pride.

This class was supposed to be KMs springboard for her HS program. She had a large group of the areas best players that played in the top brackets, had a top 5 strength of schedule, and played the best teams close. KM simply failed to capitalize on their talent. She could have built a great HS brand and experience on this class, but she threw it all away by not delivering on why most play club - to get recruited. The following Pride classes took notice and KM has not had a class like the 2023s willing to stay together since. Expectedly and wisely so, they have gone to back to Capital who does have a strong history of getting players recruited.[/quote][/quote]

Most of the kids that get recruited do the work on their own.

Also Don't confuse a good team with elite skills and talent.  Sounds like this pride team was a collection of good players but lacked elite players. [/quote]

I suppose each recruited player has their own path, but my daughter definitely did not do the work on her own. Certainly, she was involved in the process, but she could not have done it without her club. She would not have known where to start, and her parents were no help. [/quote]

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