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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least Arlington has one or two standout ECNL teams on the girls side. [/quote]

True test will come during the playoffs.[/quote]

The true test is college commits.  Every girl on the oldest Arlington Team is committed.  That is what ECNL is about.  Not playoffs.[/quote]

Mediocre Arlington at it again, but this mom is right it’s about playing mediocre soccer at the ncaa level. Congrats ECNL![/quote]

All joking aside -- what if it is?  What if that is what it all is about?  Playing soccer -- helping get into a better school than you otherwise would have, maybe for money in D1, and go to college and live your life.  What is that was the end game and no one cared if others though mediocre.  Yale plays mediocre football at best.  Most of that team end up as doctors, lawyers, bankers, and executives later in life.  Do you think they cared that someone else thought they played mediocre football?  Not for one second.[/quote]
If that is the attitude about futbol, then just go to bleeping college - in this area most people paying and playing club have the money for college - and leave futbol to the futbolistas! Our game is not some vehicle for upper middle class white kids to bridge into the 1%…[/quote]

Agree.  At that point, why even bother?  Just focus on getting into school.  Another reason why the whole mixing of education and athletics is pointless.
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First the research shows that sports and higher education play well together.  47 percent of female executives played a port in college.  Second you can get into a better school with sports.  Thirst there may be a little bit of money there.  Fourth, yes these girls are all about getting into school.  They get in early to their choice school.  [/quote]

These are like talking points from 1992…and research on female executives is actually on female athletes from the 80s and 90s. Not as relevant to the classes of the 20s. Half of Harvard’s women’s soccer team is international. The only local went to Sidwell. It’s not helping some girl from Annandale HS get to the Ivy League like in the days of yore. Look at college commits - the locals going Ivy are almost all Sidwell, Maret, Potomac School. It’s slightly helping girls who go to $40K/yr private high schools go to a $65K/yr private college.[/quote]

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