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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Holy carp. All my soccer teams when I was growing up in the Midwest were coached my volunteer parents!! I had no idea it was so common around here to pay coaches...[/quote]

My travel coach was a butcher and another one was a drywall guy. Approximately how much are parents paying per season? Do a large percentage go on to D1 or higher? This sounds crazy to me.[/quote]

Virtually none in club soccer go to d1.  D1 is almost half foreign recruits, and the other half mostly DA.  The occasional exceptional player on a club team might get a 50% scholarship.  There is almost no path to d1 from a local, non DA club. [/quote]

This is completely wrong. It is difficult for even DA kids to get scholarship money from DI because there is so little of it, especially on the boys side, and most goes to upperclassmen.

But you can be recruited and play college soccer from non-DA clubs if you have very good ability and very good grades. Know kids from our district at several Virginia state schools that did not play DA. The athletics programs are looking for these types of players because they can get them academic money and won't count against the athletic scholarship limit. Plus, it helps with the GPA of the program, which is significant thing for non-revenue sports.

DC's position coach basically told us the grades were as significant to get him into the college program of choice as the ability.[/quote]

There are 9.9 Scholarships in a fully funded D1 Mens Soccer program.  It is difficult to get scholarship money because so much of it goes to international players.

"VA State Schools"  covers a pretty wide range - are we talking UVA or VCU?  Yes they are both D1, but they really are not comparable.

BTW, UVA has 6 Virginia residents on the roster, 5 from Europe, the rest 50/50 US versus Rest of World.  [/quote]

Right. There is such a small amount of scholarships available that the academic side is a factor. The schools are Wiiliam & Mary, Virginia Tech, Richmond, James Madison. They're all Division I schools. That was the point of the conversation. Not only elite level DI. [/quote]

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