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Chances are they “prioritized” academics when they weren’t recruited to play in college.

How short-sighted of them. What with the booming job market in women's field hockey and all.

I think most of you fail to see that you can play field hockey in college (not expecting to become a professional or even a coach) and get a good degree in any field from many D1, D2 or D3 schools. Playing a sport in college creates discipline, time management skills, keeps you in good shape and looks great on a resume. Or your daughter can go to Virginia Tech because she didn’t get recruited like she wanted or expected.

Yes and she can play on the club field hockey team. The team is better than most D3 teams and lower end D1s. IYKYK

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Anonymous wrote:

Chances are they “prioritized” academics when they weren’t recruited to play in college.

How short-sighted of them. What with the booming job market in women's field hockey and all.

I think most of you fail to see that you can play field hockey in college (not expecting to become a professional or even a coach) and get a good degree in any field from many D1, D2 or D3 schools. Playing a sport in college creates discipline, time management skills, keeps you in good shape and looks great on a resume. Or your daughter can go to Virginia Tech because she didn’t get recruited like she wanted or expected.

Anonymous wrote:Tech has one of the better club teams; but they would not be at all competitive with any D1 program and would lose to all the Top 20 D3. Let's be serious.

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Anonymous wrote:

Chances are they “prioritized” academics when they weren’t recruited to play in college.

How short-sighted of them. What with the booming job market in women's field hockey and all.

I think most of you fail to see that you can play field hockey in college (not expecting to become a professional or even a coach) and get a good degree in any field from many D1, D2 or D3 schools. Playing a sport in college creates discipline, time management skills, keeps you in good shape and looks great on a resume. Or your daughter can go to Virginia Tech because she didn’t get recruited like she wanted or expected.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Chances are they “prioritized” academics when they weren’t recruited to play in college.

How short-sighted of them. What with the booming job market in women's field hockey and all.

I think most of you fail to see that you can play field hockey in college (not expecting to become a professional or even a coach) and get a good degree in any field from many D1, D2 or D3 schools. Playing a sport in college creates discipline, time management skills, keeps you in good shape and looks great on a resume. Or your daughter can go to Virginia Tech because she didn’t get recruited like she wanted or expected.

Who hurt you, boo? That’s a very specific scenario.

Nah….just a typical scenario. Virginia Tech is a great school. Too bad they don’t field hockey though.

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Anonymous wrote:

Chances are they “prioritized” academics when they weren’t recruited to play in college.

How short-sighted of them. What with the booming job market in women's field hockey and all.

I think most of you fail to see that you can play field hockey in college (not expecting to become a professional or even a coach) and get a good degree in any field from many D1, D2 or D3 schools. Playing a sport in college creates discipline, time management skills, keeps you in good shape and looks great on a resume. Or your daughter can go to Virginia Tech because she didn’t get recruited like she wanted or expected.

Who hurt you, boo? That’s a very specific scenario.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Chances are they “prioritized” academics when they weren’t recruited to play in college.

How short-sighted of them. What with the booming job market in women's field hockey and all.

I think most of you fail to see that you can play field hockey in college (not expecting to become a professional or even a coach) and get a good degree in any field from many D1, D2 or D3 schools. Playing a sport in college creates discipline, time management skills, keeps you in good shape and looks great on a resume. Or your daughter can go to Virginia Tech because she didn’t get recruited like she wanted or expected.

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Chances are they “prioritized” academics when they weren’t recruited to play in college.

How short-sighted of them. What with the booming job market in women's field hockey and all.

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Anonymous wrote:If you think it's okay to attack a teenage athletes deficiencies and accuse them of being on the receiving end of preferential treatment, man up and sign your name. A bunch of @$$hats in this forum that can bash kids while hiding behind their anonymous post. It's disgusting.

You first.

Chances are they “prioritized” academics when they weren’t recruited to play in college.

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Anonymous wrote:Yet, many of these parents have no problem destroying coaches on this exact same forum. Not a sermon, just a thought.

Coaches are adults and an important factor to choosing a club, so hearing people’s experiences are valid and there are so many questionable coaches in kids sports. Criticizing children when you don’t understand or know anything about them is cruel. Their accolades may not always seem fair but it depends on their league and coach.
Stop attacking kids but the coaches are fair game. Just my opinion.

I kind of disagree, to a point. MANY of these kids know the preferences, the favoritism, etc. that they are receiving. I'm not pointing to anyone but this applies to several of the "all met" kids in the DMV. EVERY club has this. You know it. Coaches know it. The kids know it. The kids receiving the benefits know it. They share it on social, with the public, and use it to score the best opportunities. So give me a break, here.

While it's not cool to personally attack them, pointing out their preferential treatment relative to their skills is fair game.

Many, I repeat many, of these “all state” and “all met” players will not play in college. Some instances, they are D1 or bust. Some instances, they believed their high school accolades should’ve gotten them noticed to be recruited. Mostly, though, they are just not good enough and not at collegiate-level ability because they received their accolades as their high school coaches’ favorite. These are facts not because I am writing this down but because historically this has happened time and time again and will continue as long as most accolades continue to be achieved not by ability. Of course, there are exceptions but not many!

Or how about they prioritize academics over any old D1 or D3. Doesn’t mean they couldn’t play as you insinuate, they just choose to prioritize the academic environment.