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[quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately, SYC doesn't present information on their website about college commitments.  MYS does a great job and you can see how many players - dating back four or five years - committed to playing in college.  When you look at the MYS list, what is absolutely clear is their girls have done very well. Just looking between 2019 and 2021, 58 girls committed to playing in college.  On the boys side, it's only 21, with 16 of them coming in 2019.

For SYC, it's not really clear how many players have come through in the last three years because the club doesn't track that information.  I know there is one or two 02 boys and a larger number of the 03 boys (12+) who've all committed.  The girls side is less clear. I haven't seen any social media posts about girls from SYC committing.

The SYC/MYS alliance is very keen to this imbalance. SYC needs MYS' strength on the girls side to keep SYC as an attractive option and pathway and MYS needs SYC's strength on the boys' side.  The logic is that stronger players not selected for the "ECNL Alliance" teams will opt to stay with their home clubs - thus strengthening the next level of teams. I guess only time will tell if this actually happens.

As an aside, before US Soccer shut down DA, ECNL wasn't that big of a deal on the boys' side but was picking up steam on the girls' side. Once the DA dissolved, all of a sudden non-DA clubs saw an opportunity to jump on the ECNL opportunity or decided to give MLSNext a try.  Just look at the DMV landscape and you can see the different directions clubs went: Arlington ECNL, Bethesda MLS, Alexandria & SYC MLS, Loudoun ECNL, VDA ECNL.  Of course, GA is the the logical option for clubs playing MLSnext. Interestingly enough, Arlington announced they're joining ECNL on the girls' side.

I'm not convinced MLSNext is a long term solution. With the growth of ECNL, I don't see the competition level being their amongst a much smaller group of clubs participating in the full MLSNext slate. I see value for younger teams - up to U13 or U14 - and then shifting to ECNL around U14. [/quote]

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