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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We commute 45 minutes to practice on a typical day (actual trip is 20 minutes with zero traffic but practices are ALWAYS during some phase of rush hour).
Practice is 90 minutes, 3 days per week and we carpool with 2 other families.  With drop-offs and pick-ups and the time it takes to walk to the field before/after the practices the kids are gone from their home 3.5 hours per practice.  It's a lot and getting more significant as the kids get older.,  Spending 3.5 hours to practice soccer was no big deal in 6th grade.  Now in 9th grade it comes at a cost:  the kids are up really late for homework and aren't able to do much besides play soccer (really anything besides play soccer).  My guess is my child will not be playing college soccer (she's low on an ECNL roster) so I'm almost at the point of pulling the plug and joining a closer (but less competitive) club.   More importantly I think she's getting there too.  It's hard to spend this much time on the road each week for a single activity when you're in high school.   [/quote]

I am with you.  Waiting for the day DD is ready to move on.[/quote]

I think this is going to become a more common theme. The reality is there are only, what, 45-60 girls per year in the DMV that go DI (or to a very highly competitive DII-DIII). It used to be that most players on an ECNL/DA roster were likely headed to DI. With the explosion in the number of ECNL/DA teams and the over-rostering, there are 3 times as many girls playing at that level...The top 5-6 players on each of these teams might end up playing in college but the majority won’t...And the juice just won’t be worth the squeeze, especially in the GDA where girls have to forgo HS ball to be a backup in the DA.[/quote]

FCV DA:
17 full time players
16 committed
14 of those committed headed to D1
1 to IVY
1 to Naval Academy

I would say it's still true that DA = D1 
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