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if you aren't in da by age 14 or at the latest 15 in this day and age, you 80% won't be playing d1. a strong endurance athlete with ok ability can get recruited by nescac or centennial league without being in da and showing up to college camps run in junior year summer (how my siblings got 'found' by schools like williams, swarthmore, haverford, etc).

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Curious about the 80% figure.  Our DS is starter on a highly competitive team (National League, highly ranked on GotSoccer.com, etc) and is wondering how critical it is to make a DA team to get recruited to D1.  Several players on his current team have played on DAs (and had poor experiences) or were made offers by a DA but declined.  [/quote]

You could look into ODP as a supplement and beyond that target schools and attend their ID camps. [/quote]

Different poster, but ODP is a much lower level than National League, so that path wouldn't make sense from a recruitment perspective. If you are a starter on a competitive National league team from this area, you have a very good chance of playing D1--you just might have to do a little more legwork than the DA kids. Look at the websites for clubs with national league teams in the older age groups the last few years, like Baltimore Celtic, Loudoun, Arlington, etc. and see where kids went. Most clubs heavily promote their commitments.

Keep in mind that academics are a huge part of the equation for a player who is good but not a top recruit. If you offer grades and test scores that can bring up the team average, your chances increase a lot. [/quote]

Ohhhhhh, I'm sooooo sorry.

I hate to burst your bubble but to make the Regional team is an accomplishment and players are seen and scouted by D1 coaches.

ODP is an ongoing scouting and tryout process that puts players into a variety of situations as well as ID camps, foreign travel as well as traditional showcase tournaments.

A Regional Tryout camp would most mimick the experience a player would experience at a college ID camp.

ODP is as much about the process as it is the supposed low level of play.

So if you are ONLY a National League player and not in DA I would highly recommend anything extra and that includes ODP.[/quote]

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