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[quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I watched a high school game recently. Although some of those kids seems to have great skill, both teams kept on kicking high ball all the time, very disappointing.[/quote]

Were you me?! Just kidding, but couple of kids with skills and coaches who are clueless what to do even with these kids. Parents at the games I watched, sitting around like bunch of grandmas knitting or like it is a funeral. And then you got to HS football games, and realize that people are perfectly capable of cheering on their team and going nuts. Not only that, one dad was cheering passionately(yes, looked Hispanic) and he got loudly mocked by other parents from the same team! Like so he can hear it, and then his wife was all embarrassed and telling him to keep it down![/quote]

There is a lot of cheering from parents and kids at the boys' and girls' HS soccer games I've been to, mostly at Whitman, WJ and Churchill. Those teams tend to have a pretty high percentage of kids playing in college as well, at both D1 and D3 schools. The level of play is good for high school most years, though still a lot more physical than is ideal.   [/quote]

School I watched was Sherwood. If I understand they are second overall in MCPS? Compared to their football cheering this was like zombie land. If Sherwood Varsity is beating the schools you mentioned, and I think Sherwood is bad, how bad is college soccer in US? What do you mean play is more physical than ideal? You mean more aggressive? Or just more psychically demanding?[/quote]

There's really no such thing as "second overall in MCPS." In 2017, Sherwood was a state semifinalist. They lost to the same team (Bethesda-Chevy Chase) that knocked out Whitman and Churchill in the round of 16. Those teams didn't play each other.

Sherwood was less impressive the year before.

As far as I could find, Churchill only has one player going to college soccer -- to Frostburg. 
https://churchillathletics.com/college-signings/

I couldn't find signings elsewhere.

In any case, you really can't tell anything about college soccer by watching high school soccer. High schools do tend to be less possession-based than clubs for a few reasons -- limited practice time together compared with their clubs, a condensed schedule of games, narrow fields (often sharing a football field that's encircled by a track), etc.

College soccer is hit and miss. The Virginia women are fantastic to watch. [/quote]

I'm not as familiar with this year's crop of players, but I know Churchill's girls' team has a player committed to Villanova, and Whitman has one committed to Princeton.  Whitman has had a lot of DIII players over the last few years on both the boys' and girls teams.  It is fairly rare for boys' public high schools to have many DI soccer commits these days because of the DA.

Sherwood has been a football powerhouse for a long time, and their soccer teams are not usually strong, so I'm not surprised that the soccer fan scene is relatively lackluster.  The close in MoCo schools rarely have good football teams, so other sports like basketball and soccer, where the teams are typically decent to very good, get a lot of passionate fans.[/quote]

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