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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want the admission's "leadership" bump from playing a key or leading role on a good team, but not necessarily the "athletics" bump of being a recruited athlete.

My kid does not want to play college soccer after talking to several other family members who did play D1 athletics and found it sort of a hit or miss experience.

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I'm the poster here. Our DS was a DA player but stepped back in high school to focus on his academics and on his school team where he is now the captain. It got to the point that he felt many of his DA teammates were going "all in" for a sports career (and kind of being jerky about it) and he found socially he could relate more to his schoolmates than his teammates as far as long term goals. Many of the other players had zero long term plans besides playing soccer at college and then in the MLS, a mathematical 'long shot' if there ever was one. I felt and his coaches felt if he really wanted it he could have made a run for it as a player, certainly to college but beyond would depend on too many factors to determine just now. But he didn't want it, so...

As for our family experience, we have a cousin who played D1 soccer but was injured sophomore year and 'forgotten'. She was getting queries from the youth US coaches coming out of high school but as soon as she took a bad knock (out for 9 months) the interest, not only in her playing career but her own well-being basically disappeared. Her own coaches were sort of like 'see the school health service doctor and let us know if you get better' and that was about it which she found quite disconcerting. The school really wasn't very supportive (and this is a school most would consider a major academic power in other sports).

Other two family experiences were more mixed. One loved playing with team, made life-long friends from his team, but really didn't meet and experience college the way he would have preferred. Didn't know many other kids outside of the academic world and felt he missed something. Other player, a neice, is still in school but is reporting academically it's been an incredible challenge and she is being counseled away from courses she wants by the coaches who want her on an easier path. She may decide to quit and focus on her goals rather than the athletic department's academic route which was heavy on 'independent studies' and basically 'basketweaving' to use her phrase. [/quote]

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