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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Love of the sport.

My son is a straight A honor student, perfect test score kid.  He is very academic and loves school/learning, etc.

He truly has a passion for the sport.  I thought he would have dropped it or the love would be diminished by now (Junior).  I really didn't see him playing in college.  But, at the end of Sophomore year he was very certain he wanted to try to play the sport in college.  He really had a renewed passion and drive.  He had many setbacks with injuries, disappointments, late growth, politics (oh the parent politics!!).  I even didn't let him play Club Sophomore year, only high school and he practiced on his own and was literally begging to play.  Made a high level team over the summer, great feed back from some college coaches.  Growth-related injury, out all Fall season.  Did PT, doing so much work on his own.

And now he is really much gearing up for recruiting this Spring into next Fall.

We have list of schools where he is focused on those spots.  We are realistic, checking team rosters, competition levels, etc.   But, he is sticking to the schools with good opportunity in his field of study and that are academically sound.  We are in agreement that he won't go to a much lesser school just to play.  He can play Club or intramural if that is how it pans out.

He's heard from his uncle and others that played D1 and knows the commitment.  He's a kid that very easily seems to be able to handle intense outside time commitments while maintaining studies/grades.

Who knows?  The point for us: he truly loves to play.  As smart as he is:), he could talk your ear off about every player who has ever played the game down to really obscure lower teams, etc.

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This is how I was. My parents had no qualms about letting me go for it because I had proved that I was motivated academically and was able to handle multiple AP courses at a demanding private HS with a demanding training schedule. I only considered schools that were both a good academic and athletic fit. I ended up at the "least good" of these schools (still a good school people are proud to send their kids) because it was the right fit for me in terms of athletics. No regrets. I wasn't interested in D3 schools because of their smaller size. I wanted the big state university experience with football games etc. Had I wanted to quit/not done well at the D1 school I'm sure I would have stayed and done club, or just tried other activities.[/quote]

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