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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this is a bit general but want to hear from people played or have kids who played in college.

What is a "typical" D1 male player? A starter on a winning ECNL national team by Freshman/Sophomore year in HS?  A good player on a MLS next year?

What about D3?  A starter on a winning ECNL RL team by freshman/sophomore year of HS?

My son is in 6th grade and is a top player on his NCSL D1 team right now. We never thought about playing in college before but he improved a lot recently.[/quote]

A typical college player has very good grades in school (GPA 3.5 and above), plays Travel and subsequently Varsity at school. A College player trains hard and plays hard and stand out from most of his teammates.

Some kids choose D3 because they want to play in College but don't have the rigid training and demanding schedules/games on top of academics.

Regardless of D1 or D3 your kid needs to have the grades to into college first.

My son was a good MLS NEXT player but by his Junior year (11th grade) in High school he knew he didn't want to play soccer in College.

Since your son is only in 6th grade, a path through more rigorous ECNL or MLS NEXT would set him on the right direction.

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Some excellent players can’t play high school because they are in academy or development programs.[b] Not all great players play high school soccer.[/b]

They’ll be faster and better than most on the field if they do play high school. The skill is obvious even to a soccer parent.

Good grades as others said.

D3 has a WIDE range. Top D3 teams can be at a D1 level and filled with kids who could make a D1 team but do not want to play at that level.

Lower D3 teams can be like high school or worse.

Club teams at the bigger universities can be nearly D1 level and filled with students who didn’t want the demand of the D1 lifestyle.

If you are a D1 player, that is basically all you get to do. You can see videos from D1 soccer players on YouTube that describe their daily life.

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Let me fix this for you: Almost all GREAT male soccer players do NOT play high school soccer.

At our high school this season, the best kids (at least by Jr/Sr year) are only playing solely MLSNext, even the ones that could get a waiver. We have a lot of ECNL kids drop it too since our HS plays a Fall season which is the important season (sometimes only season) for ECNL players.

The kids getting scholarships from our HS were not in the HS program.[/quote]

If you watch HS soccer, you can see why.  It is mind boggling painful to sit and watch.  The delusion in the stands and from the coaches that this is 'good soccer' is amazing. If your kid has played on a top MLSNext or ECNL team you can see the players have just awful first touch, can't connect, the speed of play is low, the soccer IQ from the players AND the coaches is low.  If a kid can kick a field goal with the ball, he is an amazingly fantastic player even if 39 out of 40 touches he gives the ball away. Oh--extra points for popping the ball straight up in the air.

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