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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How has youth hockey experience been for those who started young. Started club/travel at the age of 9/10. Did your DC burnout? Competition increases at each level, travel increases etc.. did they get to play in college? [b]Did it help them get into top 20 colleges[/b]? Any input is appreciated.[/quote]

There are plenty of top 20 schools which have hockey teams (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, Michigan, Army plus a bunch of other Big10 Flagship schools all play D1 hockey, and Williams, amHerst, Middlebury, Tufts, and other NESCAC schools play D3 hockey).  The problem is that the level of play at the D1 schools is so high, that it is very, very unlikely that you kid will be good enough so that it helps them get in there.  But not impossible.  On the boys/mens side right now, we have local kids playing at Cornell, Brown, and one going to Army next year.  But all except the kid going to Army had to leave the area as 13-15 years old to be able to continue to develop the point of being good enough for the level.  [b]Even the D3 teams are insanely competitive, drawing most of their players from New England prep schools[/b].[/quote]

And even then they usually have to play juniors first. The top club hockey teams are insanely competitive, littered with kids from top prep programs who just didn't want to take more time away from school.[/quote]

To add:  anyone who thinks hockey is a gateway to college is kidding themselves.  Play it because you love it, but it's the absolute worst choice for recruiting, thanks mostly to the juniors system.  Soccer, lax, football, all a better path than hockey.  [/quote]

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