Do both if you can. Stay in the positive and familial setting club and ask for opportunities to guest play with girls teams when you’re free. You have two more years before she has to be seen at major league showcases for college. If she can play you may find some clubs willing to do a trial period or as a discovery player situations

Anonymous wrote:She's a U14 and the team is great for individual development but doesn't play in a "high" league. She loves her coaches but is getting to the inflection point where if she wants to play in college, I'm going to have to support her in making some hard decisions. She's been with most of these kids since they were little

If college is something she wants to do she's going to game to move. If playing with the kids she always has is more important just leave her there until she can't keep up (it'll happen eventually) and then try and move her to an ECNL team.

See if you can get her on an ecnl team as a discovery player. I don't know if GA has the equivalent

She's a U14 and the team is great for individual development but doesn't play in a "high" league. She loves her coaches but is getting to the inflection point where if she wants to play in college, I'm going to have to support her in making some hard decisions. She's been with most of these kids since they were little

If college is the goal, she will need to shift to an ECNL or GA team to get seen. If she’s thinking of going to NWSL or WPL then go as high as you can in the boys leagues and contact pro teams to see if they will scout her.

Women’s college coaches don’t have tons of money and so even if your daughter is hanging with the boys in high school no college coaches will have the money to come to the game.

But realistically, she’s going to need to switch in 8th or 9th grade anyway, because if she is still able to play significant minutes on the boy’s club team as a high school freshman, then the boy’s team is probably not competing at a high enough level.

I’ve seen U17 girls ECNL teams do pretty well against U13 boys, but by U15 the size and speed just makes it unworkable.

One caveat, if your daughter is playing MLSn or ECNL boys soccer at 16, then you already know that you have a world class athlete, and you probably aren’t posting on DCUM. But if somehow you ended up here, then your daughter is in a different league and schools like Stanford and UNC will absolutely come to see her play on the boy’s side, and she probably already has a USYNT ID clinic call up.

If you have a girl primary rostered on a boy's team... do you plan to move her at some point for college recruiting (if that's the goal.) If so, when?