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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]and this is the best part of it

Odds of a high school athlete playing College Soccer *    Men                Women 
        
 Number of High School Soccer players                       417,419              374,564  
 Number of College Soccer players                                 37,890             37,760  
 % of High School players competing in College              9.1%                 10.1%

So does this shift in age really matter?  There are 4 pages of posts on this.  Let's say 25 people have been the ones creating the 4 pages.  2 of them will have their child play in college.  [/quote]

In our house, both parents were Division 1 soccer players so I don't pay attention to odds. I also don't even think about the prospect of college play with a 7 and 10-year ild :roll: . They play now because they LOVE it.  That's it.[/quote]

you are not like most of them on here who think they have it all sized up.  I see it every week and it is rather sad.  I often chime in asking some stupid question about the game that I already know but it just gets those parents going more and more.  [/quote]

Different poster, but I'm genuinely surprised by posts like yours claiming that many or most soccer parents think their elementary school aged child will end up playing in college with or without a sports scholarship.  Out of the hundreds of soccer parents I've met through my 3 kids' years playing soccer I can think of maybe two people (outside of the DA or ECNL scene) who thought of travel soccer as something likely to lead to a college scholarship.  Certainly you haven't heard anything like that from most DCUM posters. [/quote]

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