GPS Oregon = 💀?

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The 03G were playing FWRL last weekend and went 2-1. It should be noted that they had a very limited squad due to injuries and illnesses so that was not as bad a result as it could have been.

For what it's worth, the GPS 2003 boys' team won the premier division at PacNW.

That’s actually not a bad result for the boys.

Who will win state in the ‘03 boys? In Oregon

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Next girl up worked out OK this weekend...with 9 girls out, pulling from the 04 team helped. Admittedly, its a small club and losing some of the players from last year's team is not easy. But they are working hard and getting better.

And maybe FWRL isn't as strong as ECNL and GDA, but winning it gets the team to Hawaii. That sounds like more fun as a team than finishing at the bottom in ECNL and GDA.

Every team has its goals. I hope your DD's achieve theirs.

Yep, spend $5K to go to Hawaii to play 4th level teams and then complain that ECNL is too expensive to play 1st level teams. Makes you go hmmm.

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Yep, spend $5K to go to Hawaii to play 4th level teams and then complain that ECNL is too expensive to play 1st level teams. Makes you go hmmm.

Incorrect and ironic. 90% of the teams at regionals are better then teams from Oregon playing in the Ecnl league. Not hard to just look. Many Ecnl teams wouldn't be their state champions if they weren't too afraid to play in state. Reginals is far better then low level Ecnl travel and expensive.

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Yep, spend $5K to go to Hawaii to play 4th level teams and then complain that ECNL is too expensive to play 1st level teams. Makes you go hmmm.

Why you always complaining?

Not sure anyone from GPS ever complained about ECNL costs. GPS's are probably close to the same with Surf, regionals and national league tourneys. And $5K? Really...

4th level teams? Last year at regionals, the Utah team was predominantly from their ECNL team. GPS beat them, the Oregon ECNL teams lost to them.

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If your dropping $5k on Hawaii it includes a week at the beach with your family, surfing, scuba, etc. not bad! Sounds like a memorable and thrilling family experience with soccer as a bonus!

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Incorrect and ironic. 90% of the teams at regionals are better then teams from Oregon playing in the Ecnl league. Not hard to just look. Many Ecnl teams wouldn't be their state champions if they weren't too afraid to play in state. Reginals is far better then low level Ecnl travel and expensive.

Blatant lies from an obvious Timbers lemming.

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Why you always complaining?

Not sure anyone from GPS ever complained about ECNL costs. GPS's are probably close to the same with Surf, regionals and national league tourneys. And $5K? Really...

4th level teams? Last year at regionals, the Utah team was predominantly from their ECNL team. GPS beat them, the Oregon ECNL teams lost to them.

College coaches know that there are good players everywhere. Currently, there are 4 main soccer trains all heading to college soccer: Ecnl, Gda, USYS, & NPL. If your player is good, works hard, goes to play out of state competition and contacts colleges, she will find a college spot. No path is right or wrong. Pick the best one for your kid and enjoy.

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College coaches know that there are good players everywhere. Currently, there are 4 main soccer trains all heading to college soccer: Ecnl, Gda, USYS, & NPL. If your player is good, works hard, goes to play out of state competition and contacts colleges, she will find a college spot. No path is right or wrong. Pick the best one for your kid and enjoy.

Most important is good grades. Actual soccer ability is not even a close second when it comes to playing soccer in college.

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College coaches know that there are good players everywhere. Currently, there are 4 main soccer trains all heading to college soccer: Ecnl, Gda, USYS, & NPL. If your player is good, works hard, goes to play out of state competition and contacts colleges, she will find a college spot. No path is right or wrong. Pick the best one for your kid and enjoy.

Your base argument is accurate, however, you will be severely limited on your college options by going the USYS and NPL routes. Much of it comes down to exposure, the more you get, the better off you are. In addition, coaches specifically budget to attend all the ECNL and GDA events. You can tell by the numbers, NPL doesn't get the same draw.

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Your base argument is accurate, however, you will be severely limited on your college options by going the USYS and NPL routes. Much of it comes down to exposure, the more you get, the better off you are. In addition, coaches specifically budget to attend all the ECNL and GDA events. You can tell by the numbers, NPL doesn't get the same draw.

Thats OK with me. If soccer helps my daughter get into Pomona/Claremont or something similar that would be great. She's not playing to get an offer from any D1 school that will take her. DIII school with great academics is her aim.

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Thats OK with me. If soccer helps my daughter get into Pomona/Claremont or something similar that would be great. She's not playing to get an offer from any D1 school that will take her. DIII school with great academics is her aim.

Clark College or PCC might be right up her alley then!

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Clark College or PCC might be right up her alley then!

What made you say that? The goal isn't to play college soccer by any means possible.
Why the insulting comment?

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Incorrect and ironic. 90% of the teams at regionals are better then teams from Oregon playing in the Ecnl league. Not hard to just look. Many Ecnl teams wouldn't be their state champions if they weren't too afraid to play in state. Reginals is far better then low level Ecnl travel and expensive.

This is true. Ecnl teams are broke development and rely on lies and propaganda to recruit to cover up their broke development.

04 eastside
03 GPS
02 wash t
01 thorns
00 salmon creek

All easily better then the joke of a league called Ecnl.

Not saying it's terrible everywhere but to think that the teams from Oregon think they are better by association is a joke.

All you have to do is look up how bad they are

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Thats OK with me. If soccer helps my daughter get into Pomona/Claremont or something similar that would be great. She's not playing to get an offer from any D1 school that will take her. DIII school with great academics is her aim.

I think your approach again has a solid base, but might be flawed in thinking you're going to get more than one chance to perform in front of Pomona/Claremont. Generally, coaches watch up to 4-5 games before making offers - unless of course, your DD is a rock star

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Thats OK with me. If soccer helps my daughter get into Pomona/Claremont or something similar that would be great. She's not playing to get an offer from any D1 school that will take her. DIII school with great academics is her aim.

Bingo. The smart players with well educated parents, mostly take this route. The superstar girls going to P5 conferences, can really do whatever they want but are encouraged by colleges to play Ecnl or Gda to get used to the speed of the game. However, if a girl isn't smart enough, she's not getting recruited by the likes of Stanford, CAL or UCLA no matter if she's a soccer star. But UO, OSU, ASU, UA, WA, WSU & the like can easily recruit a lower academic player. Plenty of options for the not gifted in the brains department but very gifted in the soccer dept.

The not superstar but soccer before academics good players will lean towards any D1 or any soccer program where they can play over academics. These players are happy to be practice cones to the superstars in Ecnl/Gda in order to get a chance at more exposure & to play with better players. Missing school & slipping grades leaves these girls with fewer college choices academically but they're going for soccer anyway so it's not really a downside for them.

Same goes for the straight As, AP-taking academic achievers that are good but not elite soccer players. Plenty of options for them at great academic D3 schools. They won't get recruited for soccer by Pac12, P5 or other top soccer schools but they're going to college for academics first so they don't care either. They'd rather go to a better academic school than most of the Pac 12 schools anyway. If they want to go to the likes of CAL/UCLA they could go academically & play college club soccer. That would be blasphemy to a soccer-1st player but is fine with the academics-1st set. There are girls and colleges all along the academic & soccer spectrums so everyone can truly find a fit. Even JC is a good fit for some and shouldn't be maligned.

The brains, soccer-skills and end goals are completely different so it's like comparing apples vs oranges. No right or right or wrong, just different.