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Anonymous wrote:Reason these short keepers are around is because of a couple reasons. First is there aren't that many tall women, so they get what they can get. There's no drive to bring tall girls into club soccer like you see with volleyball and basketball. If you're tall, the coaches (and parents even) hound you to play. Second is most keepers are practice keepers. In practice where they get 1000x more shots than in-game they fly around and know where the ball is coming from. In an actual game where they don't know the ball's direction, they kick save and fly awkwardly to the ball long after it's by them. Watch replays, they look ridiculous diving towards nothing. I watch the taller girls command the box easily. It's coming, taller women will break-out and coaches will start to understand it DOES matter in the women's game.

I always say it’s better to be a keeper in a top league on the worst team. You get a lot more action in games !!!

+1 here for recruitment. Coaches have limited time and if you're a keeper with a great team watching the game like the rest of us, good luck showcasing your skills. It's hit or miss/pros and cons, but I'd definitely want to play a near-peer team than smoke everyone if I'm a keeper. You need shots/free kicks/corners to show off.

It's down to Amherst versus Connecticut College.

Anonymous wrote:Reason these short keepers are around is because of a couple reasons. First is there aren't that many tall women, so they get what they can get. There's no drive to bring tall girls into club soccer like you see with volleyball and basketball. If you're tall, the coaches (and parents even) hound you to play. Second is most keepers are practice keepers. In practice where they get 1000x more shots than in-game they fly around and know where the ball is coming from. In an actual game where they don't know the ball's direction, they kick save and fly awkwardly to the ball long after it's by them. Watch replays, they look ridiculous diving towards nothing. I watch the taller girls command the box easily. It's coming, taller women will break-out and coaches will start to understand it DOES matter in the women's game.

I always say it’s better to be a keeper in a top league on the worst team. You get a lot more action in games !!!

Again, read the title of the thread. Y'all can just keep trudging along thinking 5'8" is fine because that's what you see today, but I've been explaining it's not. Stanford keeper had she been taller simply stands there and catches the ball, likely not even getting a reaction from the crowd or commentators. Positioning and a single hand parry saves that ball for her, sure - but those are out-of-control plays that result in the ball going into the box or for a corner. Tall keeper easily catches it and distributes like nothing happened. We're talking women's here, but why isn't everyone clamoring to explain how all elite schools for men's game have 5'10" keepers? Of course it's math, there's not a lot of tall girls, but they're will be is my point. I see the vision, the play, the difference, you don't. That's fine. Continue to watch chip-city

Anonymous wrote:Hope you watched the Stanford keeper get chipped tonight. Tall keeper easily... eeeeeeasily catches that and makes it look simple. Thanx

Watching the goal referenced and the issue wasn't her height but rather two technique errors that led to "getting chipped". 1) she was probably a step to far out on the shot, and 2) she started her jump too early and was on the way down when the ball got to her.

But sure, it was 100% her fault for being "short". /s

Stanford is in the top 20. They don't have bad players. Their 2024 roster lists three goalkeepers. Two are 5'10" tall. One is 5'11". Which is the "short" goalkeeper who ahould have been taller? One of the 5'10" ones? You are saying one of these women is too short?

FIVE percent of the female population in the U.S. is 5'9" or taller. The majority aren't D1 quality athletes. Some of this 5% play basketball or volleyball. As someone stated it's a numbers game.

Alyssa Neher is 5'9'. Aubrey Kingsbury is 5'9". Mary Earps is 5'8". Khiara Keating is 5'6". Morgan Aquino is 5'8". (You know Chachi, she plays for the team you smart a$$Ed about the other day. ) Daphne Van Domselaar is 5'9", Lize Kop is 5'8". Jennifer Falk is 5'7". Merle Frohms is 5'8". Sophia Winkler is 5'9". All of these women are current or recent international call ups on the top teams.

Come on fella. Since you know so much and get women into college tell us who you are, and perhaps, what club you are affiliated with for your skills. Think of all the people who will flock to you for your sage knowledge. I'm sure nobody will steer clear of you. It's not like you are some pompous clown who sells hopeium to people with more money than sense.

Hope you watched the Stanford keeper get chipped tonight. Tall keeper easily... eeeeeeasily catches that and makes it look simple. Thanx

Field players are analogous to runners, and there are no fat runners.

GKs are analogous to plumbers, and there are no tall plumbers.

Anonymous wrote:taller may be better. There are coaches that believe this as part of their soul and other coaches that think super tall keepers are not athletic enough. Fact is that the top colleges have some tall keepers and some average height keepers. If tall rules the world all the female keepers would be tall at top 25 D1 but they are not. Some someone thinks otherwise.

It's what happens when there aren't enough to pick. it's raw numbers thing. Also, no one is saying you can't be shorter and better either. For men, it matters because there's a LOT more tall boys/men. Everyone thinks it doens't matter for girls, but that's because the numbers aren't there so you pick from the pool of 98%, which is <6'. Just maffs bruv

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Anonymous wrote:oooo. burn. omg... nailed it. Are you flexing in front of the mirror rn? DaaaaanG!

If I were involved in trying to get people to pay me to get their kid into college or colleges taking me seriously, I would not put my name with this either. I'm the Prince of Wales, by the way. And I don't have to prove it to anyone either. You just have to believe in my Divine Right to be King because I say it is so.

It takes only a simple look through the ACC women's soccer 2024 rosters to see most of their GK's aren't "tall." A few have a 5'10" which is pretty darn tall for a woman. Most have women who are 5'6"-5'8" on the roster. 5'8" I'd tall for a woman but not the "tall GK" you are seem to be touting as the model.

As I believe this discussion has run it's course, I am off to flex in front of my Royal Mirror now. Cheerio!

Glad you're so ill informed. Of the 'tall' women in the area, one is 6'2" at NVA going to Wake (final four) and one is 6'4" at VDA going to VT (elite eight). They both played for the USL DC Power team during summer, but you may not know there's another women's league in the area. Another younger VDA keeper is about 6' going to Washington. There aren't a lot of tall women, but of those who are, they are excelling. Richmond had a tall keeper as well playing at Ok St and was well recruited. The rise of taller girls moving to playing keeper will increase with more successes and those 5'7" keepers we see all over getting chipped and with weak box presence will not look as appealing. All aspects of sports evolve, this will be another.

It is not the dog in the fight; it is the fight in the dog. Key is the intimidation factor.

taller may be better. There are coaches that believe this as part of their soul and other coaches that think super tall keepers are not athletic enough. Fact is that the top colleges have some tall keepers and some average height keepers. If tall rules the world all the female keepers would be tall at top 25 D1 but they are not. Some someone thinks otherwise.

Anonymous wrote:oooo. burn. omg... nailed it. Are you flexing in front of the mirror rn? DaaaaanG!

If I were involved in trying to get people to pay me to get their kid into college or colleges taking me seriously, I would not put my name with this either. I'm the Prince of Wales, by the way. And I don't have to prove it to anyone either. You just have to believe in my Divine Right to be King because I say it is so.

It takes only a simple look through the ACC women's soccer 2024 rosters to see most of their GK's aren't "tall." A few have a 5'10" which is pretty darn tall for a woman. Most have women who are 5'6"-5'8" on the roster. 5'8" I'd tall for a woman but not the "tall GK" you are seem to be touting as the model.

As I believe this discussion has run it's course, I am off to flex in front of my Royal Mirror now. Cheerio!