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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have to love this feed. If a parent doesn't know that D1 is a long shot for most soccer players is just ridiculous. While I understand scholarships are what many are looking for academic ones are given more often without the worry of injury. Also, many boys grow a ton after age 12 and their abilities change good or not so. Most of the soccer and field hockey and lax clubs are money makers period. They are not going to definitely get your kid into D1. Does your kid enjoy playing, does your family enjoy spending the money and using up every weekend then awesome go for it. [/quote]

I think it is a misnomer that academic scholarships are handed out so much easier than athletic ones.  The end goal is for the kid to have a full experience in life.  To get an academic scholarship I imagine that the kid will be spending a lot of time alone studying instead of being a member of a team playing soccer for a common cause.  Does studying alone with make the kid better than a kid that balances a sport with academics?  Do you want to work with a loner who made all A’s and does not know how to work on a team?

Personally I will take the soccer kid over straight A scholarship kid every day.[/quote]

Dumbest comment ever.[/quote]

+1. I’m sure he chooses his doctors and surgeons based upon their soccer skills. [/quote]

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