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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love how anytime baseball comes up on an anonymous mommy board suddenly NOVA is home to 10 bazillion D1 recruits. My now sophomore in college son played travel with a close in outfit, pitched for his large, close in HS and literally not a single team mate of his went D1. I think 3 out of the ~ 40ish kids he played with from rec to travel to HS went to respectable D3 schools.

For our son, it was simply the love of the game. He knew he wasn't D1 and, honestly, having known D1 athletes from my own childhood, it wouldn't have been for him. It is your ENTIRE life.

So if your kid just wnats to play lots of ball, yeah, have at it. The money isn't an issue unless you're so broke 3k a year will break you.

And it's true about younger siblings. Don't make their life about their siblings life.  I have regrets about the amount of time our daughter spent on the sidelines watching her brother instead of living her own life. We realized this and corrected course but I see many who don't.

Also learn to ignore the loudmouth older guy who comes into any talk about baseball. He is living through his very mediocre son.[/quote]

Madison and Gainesville always send several to D1 each year, and there are plenty of NOVA kids playing for privates like SJC (last year's Gatorade player of the year was a SJC pitcher from Nova)

Also, you have three kids drafted in the 1st and 2nd round of the MLB in the last three years from NoVA (Eldridge, Triantos and Morabito).[/quote]

Direct from high school.[/quote]

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