Anonymous wrote:This is all about public HS. Private schools may have different paths.

Yeah, if your kid is playing at St. Benedict’s in NJ, Montverde In FL or a NE boarding school, HS alone may get the job done. At our MoCo public, I don’t think you could even make the HS team if you didn’t play club too.

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Anonymous wrote:No one and I mean no one knows if or how connected a HS coach is. Even if he might not directly know D1 college coaches, he might know someone that directly does.

While not soccer related. I doubt any Quince Orchard HS coaches knows Nick Sagan, but yet Saban visited the HS back in Dec. 2019 meet two football players there.

There are no parallels between HS football recruiting and soccer.

98% of soccer recruiting is done through club.

Stop with the dream that HS is any sort of path for soccer.

One error: 98% of soccer recruiting is done through the player.

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Anonymous wrote:What resources have you checked already? What did your coach say? Why would you have a kid playing u14 ECNL now?

I've just started to look into this so wanted to get some feedback here which would provide some direction for me. I haven't talked to the coach about this yet and probably won't. He's playing ECNL cause if he were to play on the team below he wouldn't be competing at the level he should be. I imagine HS soccer probably won't be at the ECNL or MLS Academy level of competition.

Ok this is a plant post to stir up a ton of response. At U14 your kids knows club soccer is much better than HS even if the parent is clueless

I'm the OP, my question is not whether club soccer is better than HS soccer that's a no brainer. I just want to know will a player who only plays for their HS team ever get identified or recruited by colleges. From the sound of it, it is highly unlikely.

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I have to disagree. My son was recruited from his HS team. When he spoke with the recruiter he mentioned that he also played club soccer. Ironically, the same recruiter was present at a tournament my DS team was playing in. The following day, we were contacted by the coach who offered him a scholarship.

But the difference is that your son was also playing club which is all year. The OP is considering dropping club which will only have his son playing for 3 months out of the year. His level will drop unless he works extremely hard on his own to even have the chance to be compete at a high level. It is is very well known that college recruiting is randomnly done at the High School level unless you are on a special state level team.

Anonymous wrote:No one and I mean no one knows if or how connected a HS coach is. Even if he might not directly know D1 college coaches, he might know someone that directly does.

While not soccer related. I doubt any Quince Orchard HS coaches knows Nick Sagan, but yet Saban visited the HS back in Dec. 2019 meet two football players there.

There are no parallels between HS football recruiting and soccer.

98% of soccer recruiting is done through club.

Stop with the dream that HS is any sort of path for soccer.

No one and I mean no one knows if or how connected a HS coach is. Even if he might not directly know D1 college coaches, he might know someone that directly does.

While not soccer related. I doubt any Quince Orchard HS coaches knows Nick Sagan, but yet Saban visited the HS back in Dec. 2019 meet two football players there.

Anonymous wrote:Just tell the truth. What college?

And what HS?

I heard Yorktown will be playing in Jefferson Cup 👀

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know any recruiters that attend HS soccer games.

If you do, name the HS and which level attend (D1/D2/D3/club?)

It’s logistics a university can go to 1 tournament and see a ton of kids in1 day, can’t do that with HS.

If you have a HS coach who attended and played for a D1 school, I'm pretty sure he's using his connections to get his kids scholarships.

No he doesn't. He might have 1 connection at 1 school but he does not have "connections".

Kids are not getting looks from multiple D1 coaches at his HS games, it.is.not.happening.

Nobody.cares.about.college.soccer.not.even.your.kid.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know any recruiters that attend HS soccer games.

If you do, name the HS and which level attend (D1/D2/D3/club?)

It’s logistics a university can go to 1 tournament and see a ton of kids in1 day, can’t do that with HS.

If you have a HS coach who attended and played for a D1 school, I'm pretty sure he's using his connections to get his kids scholarships.

I'm the OP, that's my what I'm thinking. I mean what if you (or you have your kid) talk to the HS soccer coach and let the coach know your kid wants to play at the college level. I'm sure they will do what they can to help get them there, right? Especially if the kid is talented player.

Yes. They will but they don't have the connections nor do they have the draw to get multiple college coaches out to his games.

He would if he could but he can't so he doesn't.

also if it's public, the odds are pretty decent they coach club at some level - your kid probably isn't their priority

This is all about public HS. Private schools may have different paths.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know any recruiters that attend HS soccer games.

If you do, name the HS and which level attend (D1/D2/D3/club?)

It’s logistics a university can go to 1 tournament and see a ton of kids in1 day, can’t do that with HS.

If you have a HS coach who attended and played for a D1 school, I'm pretty sure he's using his connections to get his kids scholarships.

I'm the OP, that's my what I'm thinking. I mean what if you (or you have your kid) talk to the HS soccer coach and let the coach know your kid wants to play at the college level. I'm sure they will do what they can to help get them there, right? Especially if the kid is talented player.

Yes. They will but they don't have the connections nor do they have the draw to get multiple college coaches out to his games.

He would if he could but he can't so he doesn't.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know any recruiters that attend HS soccer games.

If you do, name the HS and which level attend (D1/D2/D3/club?)

It’s logistics a university can go to 1 tournament and see a ton of kids in1 day, can’t do that with HS.

If you have a HS coach who attended and played for a D1 school, I'm pretty sure he's using his connections to get his kids scholarships.

I'm the OP, that's my what I'm thinking. I mean what if you (or you have your kid) talk to the HS soccer coach and let the coach know your kid wants to play at the college level. I'm sure they will do what they can to help get them there, right? Especially if the kid is talented player.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know any recruiters that attend HS soccer games.

If you do, name the HS and which level attend (D1/D2/D3/club?)

It’s logistics a university can go to 1 tournament and see a ton of kids in1 day, can’t do that with HS.

If you have a HS coach who attended and played for a D1 school, I'm pretty sure he's using his connections to get his kids scholarships.

No he doesn't. He might have 1 connection at 1 school but he does not have "connections".

Kids are not getting looks from multiple D1 coaches at his HS games, it.is.not.happening.

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Anonymous wrote:What resources have you checked already? What did your coach say? Why would you have a kid playing u14 ECNL now?

I've just started to look into this so wanted to get some feedback here which would provide some direction for me. I haven't talked to the coach about this yet and probably won't. He's playing ECNL cause if he were to play on the team below he wouldn't be competing at the level he should be. I imagine HS soccer probably won't be at the ECNL or MLS Academy level of competition.

Ok this is a plant post to stir up a ton of response. At U14 your kids knows club soccer is much better than HS even if the parent is clueless

I'm the OP, my question is not whether club soccer is better than HS soccer that's a no brainer. I just want to know will a player who only plays for their HS team ever get identified or recruited by colleges. From the sound of it, it is highly unlikely.

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I have to disagree. My son was recruited from his HS team. When he spoke with the recruiter he mentioned that he also played club soccer. Ironically, the same recruiter was present at a tournament my DS team was playing in. The following day, we were contacted by the coach who offered him a scholarship.

I'm the OP, a little different scenario because your DS was playing club soccer as well HS soccer. I'm thinking about just letting my DS only play HS, but I guess that doesn't mean and can't provide videos of his games while being on the club ECNL team (as I have recorded most games) and also provide video in his HS games.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know any recruiters that attend HS soccer games.

If you do, name the HS and which level attend (D1/D2/D3/club?)

It’s logistics a university can go to 1 tournament and see a ton of kids in1 day, can’t do that with HS.

If you have a HS coach who attended and played for a D1 school, I'm pretty sure he's using his connections to get his kids scholarships.