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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have to love this feed. If a parent doesn't know that D1 is a long shot for most soccer players is just ridiculous. While I understand scholarships are what many are looking for academic ones are given more often without the worry of injury. Also, many boys grow a ton after age 12 and their abilities change good or not so. Most of the soccer and field hockey and lax clubs are money makers period. They are not going to definitely get your kid into D1. Does your kid enjoy playing, does your family enjoy spending the money and using up every weekend then awesome go for it. [/quote]

I think it is a misnomer that academic scholarships are handed out so much easier than athletic ones.  The end goal is for the kid to have a full experience in life.  To get an academic scholarship I imagine that the kid will be spending a lot of time alone studying instead of being a member of a team playing soccer for a common cause.  Does studying alone with make the kid better than a kid that balances a sport with academics?  Do you want to work with a loner who made all A’s and does not know how to work on a team?

Personally I will take the soccer kid over straight A scholarship kid every day.[/quote]

First, it is not “misnomer.”  That is something that has not been correctly named or identified - in this case, “misnomer” is a misnomer for what you are describing.  You actually I mean it is a misconception. And second, no it is not. [b]There are far more academic scholarships than athletic scholarships.[/b] Third, you are presenting false choices. There are a handful of jocks with straight As playing top level soccer, and many more jocks with straight As not playing DA or ECNL soccer. And there are plenty of people doing many things beyond and other than travel sports. They are not loners. Their social skills may become better developed because they are dealing with more and different people on a regular basis than kids who spend all their world outside travel soccer is much, much more competitive than most people on these threads either know or acknowledge. But I agree generally that kids who play team sports tend to have very good skills for most work environments. Most top candidates have top grades and team skills.[b] If you are making tradeoffs between academic work and team sports, don’t unless you are going to be a pro. All the time and effort count over the long haul. But by all means do both so long as academic work is not compromised. [/b][/quote]

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Having just gone through this with my DD (prior ECNL player) all of the above is very true. Strong academics pays off in merit aid and for life. Period. My DD is playing in college but the "pay off" is not what she/we thought it'd be.[/quote]

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