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[quote=Anonymous][quote]You guys have to be complete morons.

All I have to say is that a non-ECNL player who does not play club soccer won DC Gatorade Player of the Year in DC, beating out ECNL players in DC private school leagues including one player heading to Harvard and last years DC player of the Year who is also on the Youth National team.

You idiots are going to tell me that UNC, Duke or Stanford are not going to reach out to such a player? Get real!

Then whar does it say that a freshman at Sidwell can outscore and outplay the 30+ ECNL players[/quote]

Using the Sidwell player as an example is ineffective.  She is a great athlete, no question, but that does not mean she is truly a great soccer player (though it may mean that she scored a lot of goals against mostly weak competition).  The critical fact that you are missing is that Gatorade only considers players who were nominated by their coach.  My daughter’s school has many ECNL players but the coach did not want to deal with the hassle of nominating.  There is absolutely no question that the player from WIS who is going to Harvard - mentioned above - is likely the best player in DC by every metric.  I have seen her play multiple times.  Anyone with any knowledge of the game would recognize her superiority; her skills and vision are in a different level, and my daughter told me she is now on the Italian national team.  I assume her coach is not aware of the Gatorade process or chose not to nominate her, or maybe her school plays in a league that is just too small.  In any event, I would be completely shocked if UNC, Duke or Stanford was recruiting anyone just because of Gatorade honors.[/quote]

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