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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most D3 recruits I'm aware of (and I have two D3 players) came from travel teams and not HS coaches - who were basically useless in the recruiting process.
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FWIW, we have one DD who played travel and decided not to pursue sport in college due to prospective major, but continued with the club as it was one of their ECs. The club spent years talking about all the places the players could get recruited. Then start of junior year, the director who oversaw HS players announced that none of the girls on DD's team would probably get D1 offers as they were too small in stature. Seemed pretty late in the game to announce this to the players. The team was also divided into 2/3rds who were full pay and 1/3rd who needed money, so this was not great news for them.

Three ended up with D1 offers early on, but not to schools that the full pay parents wanted for their kids. Two more did eke out D1 offers, though only one gets play time. Never really liked the girl with play time as she was fairly mean to DD - we had moved so DD wasn't a lifer on the team and there was a bit of a divide - but a real hustler and can imagine a coach liking that.

A couple others got D3 offers later from schools acceptable to their parents.

In the end, most of the parents felt the club wasn't really that helpful for placement. None of them thought that their girls would've ended up playing in college through their HS teams, but more like the club bragged a lot about how they hook up players and then they were largely awol in terms of personnel for these players. [/quote]

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