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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe she doesn’t want to play in college.

My kid was a pretty elite athlete in a different sport and never intended to play in college. Who would want that life for their kid?[/quote]

+1.   Stay away from these deluxe youth leagues if you don't like the idea of college sports.   The culture is that you pursue college sports regardless of the quality of the academics available.    Unless you think having your students 
 college search and journey focused on soccer or some other sport, avoid these types of leagues.  The environment had a huge unintended influence on my kid who ended up giving way too much weight to soccer programs over academic programs.[/quote]
What area were you in when this happened, PP?  All the families I know who are playing ECNL or similar are focused on using soccer to help with the kid’s admission to an academically elite college. It’s all about the admissions boost. [/quote]

McLean and Bethesda people think this way. [/quote]

That is good to know.  Is the club and coach on board with that and helps the kids trying to make a good a academic match?   My DCs coach acted clueless that she was turning down a meh academic D1 for a very strong academic D3 with weaker soccer program.[/quote]
Agree with PP that many/most families at Bethesda and McLean (and I’m sure any other club located in an affluent area with highly educated parents) care about prestige first and foremost. The club leadership also love to tout Ivy and similar commitments, including highly ranked D3 schools, because they know the fancy school commitment lists attract more parents to the club.  Coaches may or may not care about prestige, even at these clubs. Many would rather have their resumes show that they developed and sent kids to high level soccer programs over high level academic ones. Most coaches I know think it is far more impressive to be recruited by the University of Maryland than by Amherst, as an example, and they are correct in terms of what it says about a kid’s talent and training.

Regardless of what club leadership or coaches think, it is going to mostly be up to the parents and kid to figure out the right level school and get recruited there. Other parents in the club and their kids often have more influence over these decisions than coaches or the club. And in many cases, coaches or the club do little to help with recruiting. [/quote]

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