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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to nova extreme’s Instagram, they won their pools at Winter Escape (January) and Shooting Star College Connection Showcase (April) plus some recent indoor tournaments. So before the Freedom/NL crowd start complaining about pool placement, winning is winning. And a winning club usually means good coaching and good players.[/quote] The pool matters if you want your kid to be on a better team. If you just want your kid to play and be happy it doesn’t. [/quote] It is not that simple. If you are shooting for UNC, Penn State, etc. pool -MAY- matter. Especially if you don't have supportive coaches/teams. But, if you're good, and even if not in a top pool with a top team, you can still go to a top D1. ESPECIALLY if you have gone far at Nexus. Or if you are a favored player who is promoted by the club. This has happened a few times at our club over the last couple of years (and no, I'm not saying which but it is one of the ones not recommended here). Otherwise, our experience is that yes, winning is winning.[/quote] I’m not talking about college. I’m talking about what the pool says about the level of the club. Lower pools equal lower level clubs. [/quote] Meh. BFD. You play for the big clubs in the high tiers if you want to play in college. People commute for hours to play with WC and the like. The don’t do that for fun. But you don’t need that to play in college. Though it makes it easier. [/quote] People…let us not fool ourselves that any of these clubs, big or small, make a big difference in athletic recruiting. Look at most of the D1 rosters and they are filled with players from the UK, Netherlands, and Canada. The big clubs might give your DD an edge but overall will not have much of an impact for athletic recruiting if that is your goal. [/quote] Another completely uninformed opionion. Look at the final four, the vast majority of player were US players. That is fact. And these are the club teams they primarily came from: West Chester Eagles (who we all know of as WC), Spirit of USA, Freedom, AGH, Texas Pride. Then a spattering from Windy City, and some other PA teams. No Warhawks, no Metro (well, one player at UVA, who didn't get in any games went from Metro to Freedom), no NL, definintely no Nova Extreme or Husel. I don't know why you all think playing for a top 5 club team doesn't matter for recruiting when it's actually pretty much all that matters. [/quote] I’m sorry your DD didn’t get recruited into a top 4 D1 school. There are plenty of other good D1 options and D3 (NESCAC, ODAC, etc.) schools that give great financial/merit aid to their student athletes. Don’t give up - if your DD’s dream is to play college field hockey, it is an attainable goal. Not everybody can get recruited to play at UNC, Duke, Maryland, Louisville, etc. [/quote] Was this meant to respond to a different poster? I was correcting the poster that in fact club FH does matter for recruiting and that top US clubs have many many more players playing for D1 programs than Netherlands and UK (and definitely more than Canada. Canada?). My DD was recruited and plays D1 at a top school and played for one of the clubs described in this thread frequently. [/quote]
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