How do you get off the recruiting mailing lists? DS was not selected for varsity so is hanging up the cleats as a Junior.

The letters and e-mails from the college coaches just make everything more painful. Not an ECNL player but EDP so college really isn’t realistic anyways.

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Anonymous wrote:It's fine. UVA doesn't make ACC or NCAA tournaments but ok...yeah they are great..whatever.

All of these players will be done with soccer in 4 years. I hope they choose a school based on what they want to do after those 4 years, not the higher ranked soccer team.

No! They are all going pro. REMEMBER??

You are obviously a parent who's daughter had a bad recruiting/college soccer experience. The negativity about soccer is unreal. You do realize good players that want to play in college generally don't get to "choose" the school. They are recruited by schools that choose them...most of those kids locally are not going to the ACC if they want to keep playing. There are so many factors that go into a decision if you are good enough to be recruited by any school...financial, academic, location, opportunity to get on the field, coaches...all of it. Every kid is different.

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Anonymous wrote:It's fine. UVA doesn't make ACC or NCAA tournaments but ok...yeah they are great..whatever.

All of these players will be done with soccer in 4 years. I hope they choose a school based on what they want to do after those 4 years, not the higher ranked soccer team.

No! They are all going pro. REMEMBER??

Oh shoot ! Never mind - after a dismal few weeks, no UVA Womens soccer player is going pro any time soon. They need a refresh big time.

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Anonymous wrote:It's fine. UVA doesn't make ACC or NCAA tournaments but ok...yeah they are great..whatever.

All of these players will be done with soccer in 4 years. I hope they choose a school based on what they want to do after those 4 years, not the higher ranked soccer team.

No! They are all going pro. REMEMBER??

Anonymous wrote:It's fine. UVA doesn't make ACC or NCAA tournaments but ok...yeah they are great..whatever.

All of these players will be done with soccer in 4 years. I hope they choose a school based on what they want to do after those 4 years, not the higher ranked soccer team.

It's fine. UVA doesn't make ACC or NCAA tournaments but ok...yeah they are great..whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t seem like there have been many class of 2026 commitments from the local clubs. Maybe 6-8 so far all told? And some top players with YNT/YNT camp experience have yet to commit…or at least haven’t announced. Has it been slow going compared to previous years?

There is a lot less due to new 28 woman roster max teams will have to abide by starting in 2025. A lot of schools have 7-11 women coming in 2025 and have to cut either players on roster or incoming freshman. The 2026 commits are going to be about 1/3 of years past.

Is it that or is it because there are no standout 2008 local girls? I am seeing commits to all the colleges of non-local players on social media but no local. Last year there were a ton of local commits by this time of local players.

Top girl from VDA just committed to UVA. I think you're a little early on the Eeyore mood. NCAA season full swing, so hard to recruit and coach. Our is stacked with talent

Ummm. not the brag you think it is. Maybe 5 years ago. UVA didn't make the NCAA tourney last year and they are even more awful this year. They get a higher ranking early in the season by playing very low ranked teams. Then get blown out of the water once Conference play starts.

Before you tell me how good a school it may or may not be, remember this is a soccer forum and you brought up the soccer commit.

If your NVA or Arlington DD committed to UVA, you’d celebrate it. It’s a VDA player, so you have to tear down UVA. DCUM is so predictable.

Pretty much exactly ^. Entire 2005/06 class goes D1, with UCLA and Florida State commits and parents on DCUM post to cope and seethe. Now additional top girls select top schools and they wonder if the past six years were worth it at their club. I wonder if they thought a local girl would like to attend a local elite school...? Amazing thought to attend a #24 uni and #5 public uni in nation (US News)

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t seem like there have been many class of 2026 commitments from the local clubs. Maybe 6-8 so far all told? And some top players with YNT/YNT camp experience have yet to commit…or at least haven’t announced. Has it been slow going compared to previous years?

There is a lot less due to new 28 woman roster max teams will have to abide by starting in 2025. A lot of schools have 7-11 women coming in 2025 and have to cut either players on roster or incoming freshman. The 2026 commits are going to be about 1/3 of years past.

Is it that or is it because there are no standout 2008 local girls? I am seeing commits to all the colleges of non-local players on social media but no local. Last year there were a ton of local commits by this time of local players.

Top girl from VDA just committed to UVA. I think you're a little early on the Eeyore mood. NCAA season full swing, so hard to recruit and coach. Our is stacked with talent

Ummm. not the brag you think it is. Maybe 5 years ago. UVA didn't make the NCAA tourney last year and they are even more awful this year. They get a higher ranking early in the season by playing very low ranked teams. Then get blown out of the water once Conference play starts.

Before you tell me how good a school it may or may not be, remember this is a soccer forum and you brought up the soccer commit.

If your NVA or Arlington DD committed to UVA, you’d celebrate it. It’s a VDA player, so you have to tear down UVA. DCUM is so predictable.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone claiming the ACC or UVa are not top tier for women’s college soccer are trolling you. ACC has more teams than any other conference in the top 20 power rankings. Not even close.

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-women/d1/ncaa-womens-soccer-rpi

Not to mention ACC is also the best academic conference outside Ivy League. ACC is the top destination for any local players.

Voice of sanity right here ^^^. We're a DC thread site and I bet vast majority of parents would kill to send their kid to an ACC school, let alone VT/UVA.

Let's all take a minute to reread the post ...they were saying the ACC is one of the best. Stanford is new this year to ACC. They were ranked #1 (maybe they still are -- the rankings update every 2 weeks) but they came to play an ACC team and were shutout.
They were shutout by a previously unranked ACC team. That is how good the ACC is.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone claiming the ACC or UVa are not top tier for women’s college soccer are trolling you. ACC has more teams than any other conference in the top 20 power rankings. Not even close.

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-women/d1/ncaa-womens-soccer-rpi

Not to mention ACC is also the best academic conference outside Ivy League. ACC is the top destination for any local players.

EVERYONE is claiming ACC is one of the best conferences.
NO ONE is talking about academics on this soccer forum. In fact, they specifically said that.
DATA speaks volumes - blathering about your love for UVA does not. UVA is consistently shut out by unranked teams. The college level games have a tendency to go either way any day. UVA has not outperformed ranked teams in years. And they haven't made the NCAA tournament.

Before you respond with nonsense school spirit again, go to google and look up a few things.

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t seem like there have been many class of 2026 commitments from the local clubs. Maybe 6-8 so far all told? And some top players with YNT/YNT camp experience have yet to commit…or at least haven’t announced. Has it been slow going compared to previous years?

There is a lot less due to new 28 woman roster max teams will have to abide by starting in 2025. A lot of schools have 7-11 women coming in 2025 and have to cut either players on roster or incoming freshman. The 2026 commits are going to be about 1/3 of years past.

Is it that or is it because there are no standout 2008 local girls? I am seeing commits to all the colleges of non-local players on social media but no local. Last year there were a ton of local commits by this time of local players.

Top girl from VDA just committed to UVA. I think you're a little early on the Eeyore mood. NCAA season full swing, so hard to recruit and coach. Our is stacked with talent

Ummm. not the brag you think it is. Maybe 5 years ago. UVA didn't make the NCAA tourney last year and they are even more awful this year. They get a higher ranking early in the season by playing very low ranked teams. Then get blown out of the water once Conference play starts.

Before you tell me how good a school it may or may not be, remember this is a soccer forum and you brought up the soccer commit.

Point was the girls are committing and OP was acting as if girls are getting snatched up. UVA is a top school, period. Education and soccer... which eaach school goes through rebuilding. UCLA has injuries galore, but I'm not going to say their program is trash now even though they're outside Top 25. Going to UVA from this area is a major flex. Good for her and another W for VDA recruitment, which is best in area for girls by a billion miles.

2 billion now that BP is there.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone claiming the ACC or UVa are not top tier for women’s college soccer are trolling you. ACC has more teams than any other conference in the top 20 power rankings. Not even close.

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-women/d1/ncaa-womens-soccer-rpi

Not to mention ACC is also the best academic conference outside Ivy League. ACC is the top destination for any local players.

Voice of sanity right here ^^^. We're a DC thread site and I bet vast majority of parents would kill to send their kid to an ACC school, let alone VT/UVA.

Anyone claiming the ACC or UVa are not top tier for women’s college soccer are trolling you. ACC has more teams than any other conference in the top 20 power rankings. Not even close.

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-women/d1/ncaa-womens-soccer-rpi

Not to mention ACC is also the best academic conference outside Ivy League. ACC is the top destination for any local players.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s going to be hard on Big10 girls now that they have to fly to the West Coast. Not sure how all of that will work.

They're grouping the two CA schools and the two Pacific NW schools. You fly to one pair each year and the other pair comes to you. Not that difficult to comprehend.

You understand when they have to fly out right? And how hard those trips are on your body?

It'll likely end up being a wash. The big schools have usually taken a cross-country trip at some point -- say, Stanford might come to play UNC and Duke on a Friday and Sunday to get in a couple of good nonconference games. Now they'll just be taking those trips for conference games.

So it's up to the coaches and schedulers to get it right.

Which they probably won't, of course.

Standford came to get beat by Wake. ACC is no joke

Stanford is ACC

Hey Cap't Obvious... this is Standford's first year competing in ACC - that's why they played Wake in Conference. They thought they were rock starts until they got into the ACC and now they know what it means.

It’s Stanford.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s going to be hard on Big10 girls now that they have to fly to the West Coast. Not sure how all of that will work.

They're grouping the two CA schools and the two Pacific NW schools. You fly to one pair each year and the other pair comes to you. Not that difficult to comprehend.

You understand when they have to fly out right? And how hard those trips are on your body?

It'll likely end up being a wash. The big schools have usually taken a cross-country trip at some point -- say, Stanford might come to play UNC and Duke on a Friday and Sunday to get in a couple of good nonconference games. Now they'll just be taking those trips for conference games.

So it's up to the coaches and schedulers to get it right.

Which they probably won't, of course.

Standford came to get beat by Wake. ACC is no joke

Stanford is ACC

Hey Cap't Obvious... this is Standford's first year competing in ACC - that's why they played Wake in Conference. They thought they were rock starts until they got into the ACC and now they know what it means.