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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Always be playing. Take the slot on the B team - development comes with more game minutes, not sitting on a bench.

Curious how common it is in this area to not make a high school team after being on travel growing up as a kid. I have young kids so that just seems unreal. [/quote]

Crazy amount of talent in this area and number of travel teams from U16-U19 far exceeds number of high schools that have combined U16-U19 rosters. My kids play travel but I have no expectation they will be able to play for their HS. [/quote]

Sure, but not all travel soccer is high level. ODSL and lower division NCSL players will struggle to standout in varsity soccer. But I’ve seen rec kids who are very good who didn’t have the money to pay for club make the team. I’ve coached a local high school for 7 years and we always ask the kids to wear a plain black shirt. We don’t find out who their club is or what league is until after. Interestingly enough we pick heavily from CCL and NPL. Perhaps because ECNL and former da kids were less [/quote]

Sorry. I realized that later.

Think it's a great idea to have the kids wear black.  Too many high schools pick the kids before tryouts happen.

I'm not sure what you were going on to say - as your post was curtailed.  It almost reads as if you were going to say that you found you were picking CCL/NPL kids over ECNL/DA kids, except that this seems unlikely given that ECNL girls and DA kids of either sex were not permitted to play high school soccer.  Still - if that is what you were planning to say - I wonder if that should cause you to wonder whether your own selection process was really identifying the most talented players.  Because - while I am quite sure that there are plenty of CCL/NPL players who are better than some ECNL/DA players, I am equally sure that - on average - ECNL/DA players are better than CCL and NPL players - and that if you just picked a player at random from a DA team and another at random from a CCL or NPL team - more often than not the DA player would be better.  And I would also suggest that there are very few high school teams in this area (maybe none) where any DA player should fail to make the roster.[/quote]

Sorry I realized this later. I meant to say they were less likely to tryout and there are just fewer ECNL/ mls next players in general. I would have maybe 2-6 ECNL/ mls next kids in the program out of almost 40 kids ( JV and Varsity). The rest tended to be CCL and npl kids. We have a good mix of NCSL D1 kids and I see that the ODSL and rec kids who surprisingly make it tend to be minority kids. They are really good! But there parents don’t have the ability to pay for high level leagues. [/quote]

I want to add that just because ECNL/mls next kids aren’t supposed to play high school doesn’t mean they listen to that rule. It’s not good but it happens often. [/quote]

I agree it happens, but "sometimes" might be a better description than "often".  Even now my DS's ex-DA team is ECNL and he is permitted, and intends, to play high school soccer, he is not enjoying much success trying to convince other kids from his club who are at the same high school to play as well.  Historically only a handful - certainly less than 25% - played.[/quote]

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