ECNL - The Proven Pathway to College

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High School soccer is a joke. There are reasons to not play in the GDA, but not doing so for high school soccer is ridiculous.

High school soccer and having fun is so bad. If your child enjoys playing with their friends and representing their school then there is something seriously wrong.

They should not be allow to do anything enjoyable or fun. This is SERIOUS.

Punish anyone trying to enjoy life. That is not what life is about.

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High School soccer is a joke. There are reasons to not play in the GDA, but not doing so for high school soccer is ridiculous.

SOme HS soccer does suck, but some is quite good. Some players don't want it, but many do - even when it sucks. It's a big and memorable part of going to HS, good and bad. Boys gave up HS because they had no choice. Girls will have a choice. Soon enough boys will too with ECNL for them. You'll see players drop out of BDA. Not the top players, but enough that it's going to dent the program. And like GDA, BDA is pay-to-pay unless you're good enough or close enough to play for one of the 22 MLS clubs.

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It will be interesting to see how the 04s play out. Will all the top players scatter into the wind across two ECNL teams and one GDA team to play on watered down teams, or will a top group snub the system and go rogue like the 03s at GPS?

If GPS stays together till graduating, they'll get more good college recruitments than either GDA or ECNL. Same would've been true for Onyx if they hadn't already been in a club that got ECNL. Players on top teams that travel & do top tourneys and showcases are best off staying together.

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Give it a rest gps mom.

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Give it a rest gps mom.

But you can't deny it. If you were a coach on a recruiting trip or just a neutral fan wanting to watch, with GPS 03 playing on one field and an 03 Oregon Ecnl team on another, you would watch the GPS game.

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If GPS stays together till graduating, they'll get more good college recruitments than either GDA or ECNL. Same would've been true for Onyx if they hadn't already been in a club that got ECNL. Players on top teams that travel & do top tourneys and showcases are best off staying together.

There is truth to this. All the girls on the GPS team probably know know this also. They literally have no weak links. Why move to a team that plays slower and has no rhythm when they are sitting on the best team in the state now and they are getting better exposure than either ECNL team?

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But you can't deny it. If you were a coach on a recruiting trip or just a neutral fan wanting to watch, with GPS 03 playing on one field and an 03 Oregon Ecnl team on another, you would watch the GPS game.

I hate to break this to you - but no recruiters are watching any 03's except possibly at national team events. Your girls are too young. It'll be 1-2 years before you can expect a sidelines full of coaches watching your games - IF you can get into the events the coaches go to. Which is why, regardless of win-loss record at at u14, many strong players move to ECNL - because those are the teams that go to the events where they need to go to be seen by the coaches.

GPS might be that outlier team that stays together, like Bend's 98's or Eugene's 99's. For both of those teams, geography was on their side - they were literally the only game in town. And they still both lost a few ambitious kids to ECNL whose parents were willing to make the commitment to drive.

My last piece of advice that you will probably ignore is to be cautious about burning your bridges. You have a good thing going in the very small pool that is Oregon youth soccer. If you get too caught up in deriding other programs like ECNL and GDA, you might have a hard time eating those words if your team does break up and head to one of those programs. Right now I'm sure it seems like that will never happen. Those of us with older kids know better.

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High school soccer and having fun is so bad. If your child enjoys playing with their friends and representing their school then there is something seriously wrong.

They should not be allow to do anything enjoyable or fun. This is SERIOUS.

Punish anyone trying to enjoy life. That is not what life is about.

It is funny to me how you ECNL honks claim that the only way a female player can possibly play in college is to spend $8 grand or more for ECNL but then throw away 3-4 months each year on a truly rec soccer experience playing high school soccer.

What it really makes me think is that your daughters don't enjoy playing ECNL if they are desperate to have "fun" playing rec soccer. Since the local ECNL programs mostly underperform on a regular basis they are clearly desperate to simply feel as if they are decent players because they are not getting it from their $8 grand per year team.

So, once again this shows how most of the local ECNL players and parents really aren't fit to be involved in such a high level league and you are simply buying your way in instead of earning it.

I think of it in terms of scholastic pedormance. If your child was in Advanced Placement Math or Science would you also support them dropping down into the lowest possible Math or Science classes in high school for 3-4 months? My guess is you wouldn't.

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Thornz got no college signings this year? That hurts.

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Thornz got no college signings this year? That hurts.

Surely they must have many verbals for full rides at top D1 schools. This is Academy after all.

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Surely they must have many verbals for full rides at top D1 schools. This is Academy after all.

Nothing for 2017.

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Thornz got no college signings this year? That hurts.

Over 40 for CU and FCP. For 2017.

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http://www.eliteclubsnationalleague....s-proven-path/

ECNL: The Proven Pathway to College

RICHMOND, VA (March 16, 2017) – In modern soccer, no youth platform has sent more players to college, had more alums earn collegiate honors, and had more impact on the collegiate game. In the past two years alone, the ECNL has sent more than 2,500 graduating seniors to play women’s collegiate soccer, with 2,028 in NCAA Division I programs alone. 92% of the Class of 2017 – almost every high school senior in the league – will be moving on to play at the collegiate level.

“The ECNL provides a development environment where players can showcase their talent in front of hundreds of college scouts in the most professional atmosphere in the country,” said Jen Winnagle, ECNL Commissioner. “Players that first sparked notice at an ECNL National Event only a few years ago are now dominating every level of college soccer, and starring in the NWSL. Every year, more and more ECNL Alums move on to change the game at in college soccer, with more than 3,900 ECNL Alums in Division I this past fall.”

The ECNL Class of 2016 was comprised of Amazing Young Women who made an immediate impact in their freshmen campaigns. These 2016 freshman accounted for 49 of the 58 total 2016 All-Freshman honors in the Power 5, college soccer’s most prestigious conferences, including the Freshman of the Year in all five conferences.

ECNL Class of 2016 Collegiate Soccer Players: 1,224
Division I: 969
Division II, III, NAIA: 266
The ECNL Class of 2017 is expected to set an even higher standard with over 92% of this class moving on to play at the collegiate level. While the Class of 2017 prepares to make the transition to the collegiate game, they continue to improve their game against the best of the best as the ECNL Playoffs draw near, symbolizing the end of one chapter and the beginning of another.

ECNL Class of 2017 Collegiate Soccer Players: 1,409
Division I: 1,059
Division II, III, NAIA: 350
Over the past two years, the NCAA Women’s College Cup has been dominated by ECNL Alums competing for the National Championship.

The 2015 National Champion, Penn State University, had 18 ECNL Alums on the roster, including 4 All-Conference honorees. Overall, the four teams at the 2015 College Cup (Duke, Florida State, Penn State, and Rutgers) included 68 ECNL Alums.

The ECNL’s impact in the 2016 Women’s College Cup was even more significant, with 78 ECNL Alums on the final four teams (Georgetown, North Carolina, USC, West Virginia). Champion USC Trojans featured 22 ECNL Alums, including the 2016 PAC-12 Defensive Player of the Year, Goalkeeper of the Year, and 6 All-Conference honorees.

With 8 different teams in the past 2 College Cups, there has been one constant – the ECNL Alum.

The ECNL College Impact shows that the number of ECNL alums playing soccer in college has increased year after year, and the future will be no different. In the ECNL’s 8th season, ECNL Alums are now also beginning to impact professional soccer, as reflected by the fact that 30 of the 40 2017 NWSL draftees were ECNL Alums.

The ECNL is the proven pathway to college. The road for every youth soccer player to fulfill their dream of being a collegiate student-athlete is clear. Watch what thousands of ECNL alums have experienced as they move to the collegiate soccer world.

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Over 40 for CU and FCP. For 2017.

Any for Thorns?

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Any for Thorns?

TSers have claimed over & over that all better D1 programs fill their rosters by end of sophomore year. Top players are snapped up freshman year. I'm sure many Thorns & Ecnl sophomores and a few freshmen already have verbals.