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How is this an interesting statistic?[/quote]

It gives some perspective on all the DCUM threads about soccer - which is the best league, or the best club, blah blah blah.

[i]It doesn't matter.[/i]

Just sign the kids up and let them play.[/quote]

Except no one is expecting their kid to play in the Premier League. [b]At most they are looking for a leg up in college[/b].[/quote]

They're wasting their time thinking about that, too.

http://www.scholarshipstats.com/soccer.html

% of US High School Soccer Players competing at any College Level 	7.5% (men)	9.4% (women)
% of US High School Soccer Players Competing at NCAA I Schools 	1.0% (men)	2.1% (women)

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Did anyone say scholarship?

For many the opportunity to play soccer can simply open doors to schools not otherwise considered.

What is the percent of High School soccer players who are playing in DA and ECNL?[/quote]
Try again. Those aren't the &quot;get a scholarship&quot; numbers. Those are the &quot;playing in college&quot; numbers. Odds of a scholarship are even worse![/quote]

You can't really generalize very much from these percentages.  They don't reflect the fairly large number of kids playing in HS who opted not to play in high school.  They don't distinguish between kids who are still playing their senior year and those who played at some point in HS but quite, and of course, they don't include any DA kids or others who will play in college or go pro, but who do not play in HS.

Also, are there percentage numbers like this that are broken out by state or region?  Your odds of playing in college are significantly higher if ou are from in a soccer hotbed state vs. Idaho, S. Dakota, Montana, etc.  As an example, take a look at Top Drawer Soccer's[b] commitment list[/b] for class of 2019 boys:  https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/search/?query=&divisionId=&genderId=m&graduationYear=2019&positionId=0&playerRating=&stateId=All&pageNo=0&area=commitments  This database is by no means complete as there are tons of kids who don't bother to report their commitments, and most of those who do are playing D1, but you can still get a sense of the DMV slice of the entire pie.  Of the 893 2019 boys who will play in college, 46 are from MD and 40 are from VA.  Together, they make up close to 10% of the national number.

It is, of course, ridiculous for anyone to think their 9 year old will play in the EPL, even if he is a very talented 9 year old currently in a top academy program in the UK.  It's not at all ridiculous for a parent of a HS player on a decent club around here to think their kid will play in college.  Most probably can if they make that their priority.  It's also not ridiculous for a parent of a kid who is a DA star to think he may have a shot at the pros, since many will play a few years professionally at some level. [/quote]

I think a lot of parents equate 'commitment' with 'full scholarship'.... How much scholarship money do you think a kid is getting to go to Upper Iowa? Or Cal State-San Marcos? Or Monmouth? I bet the cost of one year on their club team &gt; whatever soccer-related aid they are getting. (Need-based, work-study aid, etc. is different).

I am not discounting the value of playing sports, learning time management, being athletic and healthy, making friends. But the fact is there is way, way more money out there for academics than for sports, and when I see &quot;signing ceremonies&quot; for a kid who is &quot;committed&quot; to Upper Iowa or Southeastern Oklahoma or Goucher it cracks me up. 
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