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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are other families with AAA players who want to play college hockey doing?  Do you plan to send your kid away for prep school, juniors or even a better AAA team than what we have locally and hope they still want to go to college after the gap year(s) and that they can make a NCAA team?  Or are you steering them toward ACHA hockey? [/quote]

If you want to play D1 hockey from this area, the best odds are, I think, achieved by moving north around age 14 or 15 (Bantam Major or 15U) either to prep school or another AAA team.  This gives the best odds of making it to the USHL or the NAHL. which are the best options for making D1.  That's not to say that its impossible to do that from here, but its more difficult. Team Maryland had been pretty successful in recent years placing a kid or two each year on the Black Bears, but I've heard that that process is greatly eased by attending (and paying for) the various summer camps run by the people in charge.  It is much easier to stay local and then make a Tier 3 junior team which can lead to a D3 NCAA gig.  But that can easily take an extra 2-3 years post-high school.  My kid played for WLC for 7 years (though 1 year of 18U hockey), and looked pretty hard at taking the juniors route.  In the end, he got a good opportunity at a college he would have wanted to attend regardless of hockey, and decided to go straight to college. They have a D1 program and an ACHA D2 program which has been very successful the past five years (5 straight trips to Nationals).  He made the team as a freshman and has gotten to play in every game (along with 2 other freshman).  Its been a very good experience for him.  I think he might have "left some hockey on the table" by heading straight to college, but I think it was the right choice for him.[/quote]

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