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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Playing soccer at the jhu/williams is not high level and very easy to obtain if you are a bench player on an academy team with decent grades.

we are an below average asian family of poor genetics when it comes to athleticism and have had two in our family play at top 10 lac's for soccer.

the soccer pool at the strong academic d3 schools is really bad from a technical standpoint. If you are focused on being in the best aerobic shape possibly and you have a modicum of skill, you can make it.

I am 10 years older than my siblings and when I found out how large the hook was for being recruited, we devised a plan for my younger siblings so that they became the best athletes they could be.

At the d3 level for soccer, i believe the average american could play at that level if they focused on training from ages 9-17 on that specific goal.

pretty much any race is more athletically inclined than mine, so if we can do it - your average umc white family can do it. you guys have better athletic genetics and richer resources for training.

but it does require focus and dedication if you aren't athletically blessed. we used it only as a hook to get in. both people in my family quit after one season.

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Probably the same nutball given the overlap in some phrases. Might even be Bloggy McTinfoilhat. Hey Bloggy!

Just poor reasoning, factually untrue, and creepily race-focused. Yeesh. We are suburban Maryland public with a decent, somewhat competitive soccer team, meaning we smoke the teams with kids who play soccer as a second or conditioning sport and get handled by schools with dedicated players. Even so, making varsity soccer at our school isn’t anywhere near reasonable for a kid with poor skills and “aerobic shape”. The kids running cross country, for instance, who have “aerobic shape” wouldn’t have a prayer without a long history of club ball or some incredible latent talent. And yet we might have one or two who could possibly play at Williams, the perennial D3 athletic powerhouse. Very few move on to college soccer. Girls lacrosse is much more common to land D3 and even D1 spots, but that’s a sport where we’re more competitive as a region so kind of an anomaly.

In sum, you’re wrong and pretty strange. [/quote]

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