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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What an off the rails thread...  college recruitment process question devolves into attacks on field hockey.[/quote]

College recruitment is sooo sport specific that only in the most general of terms can it be discussed generically.

[b]If you want to play college soccer, you most likely can.[/b] There are far more opportunities to do so irregardless of scholarships. A sport like field hockey? There are simply not as many programs available. While the amount of field hockey players is certainly less the smaller amount of schools offering the sport still limits ones choice of schools. [/quote]

I have to disagree with the bolded statement above.  Although there are more college soccer programs than field hockey programs, the number of US girls playing high school soccer is -- according to the NCAA website -- more than 6 times larger than the number of US girls playing high school field hockey.   The NCAA website says that 9.7% of US high school field hockey players go on to play in college.   Only 7.2% of US girls high school soccer players go on to play in college.

One reason the odds are lower for girls HS soccer players going on to play in college is that almost every girls college soccer program recruits/attracts foreign players.   So if foreign students make up 10% of the college soccer roster spots, then the real number of spots available for US girls is smaller than it appears from just looking at the number of college programs.    I could be wrong, but I don't believe US college field hockey attracts nearly the number of foreign players as US girls college soccer does.  [/quote]

I said if you want to play college soccer you most likely can. I did not say, if you want to play DI soccer you most likely can. [/quote]

The percentages from the NCAA website that I cited were for all of DI, DII and DIII combined.  If you look at the statistics provided by the NCAA the odss of playing D1 field hockey is 2.9% while the odds of playing D1 women's soccer is 2.4%.  Odds of playing D3 field hockey is 5.7% and the odds of playing D3 womens soccer is 2.9%.    Odds of playing D2 soccer is slightly higher than odds of playing D2 field hockey (1.0% to 1.2%).    So it really is easier to play field hockey than soccer in college.

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/research/estimated-probability-competing-college-athletics

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Breakdown of US Youth Soccer's 3 million registered players:
18 to 19 - 3%
15 to 17 - 12%
10 to 14 - 48%
Under 10 - 37%
85% are under the age of 14
52/48 male/female ratio

This leaves about 90,000 kids still playing soccer as seniors in HS.

There are 41,000 college roster spots available.[/quote]

Is there a link to these stats?  Also, you are leaving out of your figures the tens of thousands of high school aged kids who (1) play on US Club Soccer (not USYS) teams or (2) no longer play on any club team by senior year of HS but still playing HS soccer as seniors.

My own DD's HS team has kids in both of these additional categories.     [/quote]

If it makes you feel better you can guesstimate about 200 U.S. Club soccer teams including ECNL with roster spots of about 25 for four years. This would cause the 90,000 players swell by roughly 19,000.

HS does not need to be factored as it is not a scouting hotbed for colleges.[/quote]

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