Anonymous wrote:Where I live most of the kids that are on the high school soccer team play club and that's for most of competing high schools so the competition level should be good. What it comes down to is I will let my DS make the decision based on my DS's actions. I order to compete at the next level you need to do more than just attend your practices. You need to be doing drills on your own, weight training (reasonable weight) on your own and working on endurance, etc on your own showing that you want it. If I see that my DS is dedicated to getting better and that he's spending time outside of club practices then I'll keep him on club. But if my DS is not doing that extra stuff, then why stay on club?? Luckily, my DS is an A student in AAP but if grades start to slip my DS knows the first thing that drops is soccer which is yet another reason to quit club and focus on studies and just play HS soccer.

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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.

Is this true? (Not arguing, just a relatively new soccer dad here, just trying to figure out how all this works.) So if my son ends up playing for high school, that's not really considered for athletic scholarships (or even admissions points) by colleges? Even if it's a "good" high school team?

Odd that this would be the case for soccer, when high school football, baseball, and basketball seem to be relatively important pathways for those sports. Not sure what's so special about soccer, other than the for-profit clubs having a tight grip on the status quo.

Anonymous wrote:in nothern VA it's 2 weeks between tryouts and the first game.. that's going to be some high quality soccer

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the private schools are Nationally ranked. They have connections with various college coaches. Of course, the players also play year round outside of HS--but in my friend's case the HS had better connections than his prestigious club.

Yes. And often guidance counselors helping students get into top choices will look at every angle-many of the best academic universities are not D1. Kid may not get a scholarship - but will get admission and spot on team. This is what I meant. And, some of those coaches/along with the guidance counselor have connections with those coaches. We aren’t talking top ranked D1 which many very intelligent kids that love soccer don’t care since soccer won’t be their career.

Anonymous wrote:Some of the private schools are Nationally ranked. They have connections with various college coaches. Of course, the players also play year round outside of HS--but in my friend's case the HS had better connections than his prestigious club.

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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.

Is this true? (Not arguing, just a relatively new soccer dad here, just trying to figure out how all this works.) So if my son ends up playing for high school, that's not really considered for athletic scholarships (or even admissions points) by colleges? Even if it's a "good" high school team?

Odd that this would be the case for soccer, when high school football, baseball, and basketball seem to be relatively important pathways for those sports. Not sure what's so special about soccer, other than the for-profit clubs having a tight grip on the status quo.

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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.