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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Families know that playing in college requires a girl to either play ECNL or GA.[/quote]

Do a lot of ECNL and GA clubs use their connections to promote their players and help with college placement?  Absolutely they do.  And will playing in one of those leagues help get you more exposure than if you didn’t?  Yep.  Certainly a lot of D1 schools will primarily focus their recruiting on those leagues.  But to say that playing in college requires a girl to play ECNL or GA is, at best, an uninformed opinion and at worst, just dishonest. There are plenty of players playing in college (admittedly more common at D2 and D3 schools) who don’t play in ECNL or GA.[/quote]

Compare placement coming out out GA and ECNL to USYS or NCSL. Sure it's possible, but any parent with a kid on that track is going to push them to a club where the path is straight forward rather than hoping they can be an extreme outlier.  [/quote]

Oh sure. But that’s a different argument than saying that a girl [u]must[/u] play in ECNL or GA in order to play in college which is what the PP said.  You could make the same argument about ECNL-RL and DPL vs USYS and NCSL. There’s no question that there’s a hierarchy and generally speaking, that probably holds up to scrutiny. A lot of D3 schools have RL and DPL players on their rosters.  And not every part of the US even has ECNL or GA teams (or even RL/DPL) so there are talented kids out there whose only club option might be USYS/EDP.  And some kids might not even have a club option at all.  If they’re good enough, they’re going to have to work harder to be identified because they don’t have the benefit of club promotion, showcases, etc. but that doesn’t automatically preclude the possibility of them playing in college somewhere.[/quote]

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