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Our 2021 has also had mixed luck at Id camps. Some camps she’s outperformed the players they are recruiting (you can always tell who is in that group) but they don’t/aren’t paying any real attention to anyone else. Then at a few even better school id camps, the coaches have noticed her even though she’s not in the chosen group and contacted her afterwards expressing interest. It’s weird to see a D1 school where she’d likely be a starter completely ignore her but then have a better D1 be very interested. It seems quite random and based on each individual coach so it makes targeting tough.
Also have noticed that some coaches don’t seem to care about anything but previous accolades and will only look at a gda/ecnl player from a top team that looks great on paper over an “unknown” (not just my dd but others we’ve seen at camps) that are consistently outperforming the chosen ones at the multi day individual school camp. It appears to definitely be the case for new coaches and coaches on the hot seat who don’t want to be questioned for taking a player who doesn’t have an impressive bio even if they’re performing better directly against the impressive bio player.
It is an interesting and frustrating process but has also been fun and eye opening as far as politics continuing right on into the college game. Luckily, there are hundreds of decent programs and just as many good schools so I think everyone will end up finding a good fit in the end - it just might be somewhere completely different than you originally thought and it might well be on an even higher ranked college team.
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