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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostBingo. The Socal GDA & Ecnl girls & the NorCal GDA & Ecnl girls will all be training (the required by US Soccer) MINIMUM 4x/week, not doing high school soccer or other sports. Get on board Thorns GDA or have our Oregon girls left even further behind. GDA is supposed to be for the serious elite soccer players only. Please don't ruin the chances of Oregon girls ever being able to compete at all vs their sisters to the south. Please don't turn Thorns Oregon GDA into some weakened same old club kind of gig. GDA doesn't have to be a Yugo in Oregon. Girls might threaten but they will give up other soccer & sports for a legitimate GDA program.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostBingo. The Socal GDA & Ecnl girls & the NorCal GDA & Ecnl girls will all be training (the required by US Soccer) MINIMUM 4x/week, not doing high school soccer or other sports. Get on board Thorns GDA or have our Oregon girls left even further behind. GDA is supposed to be for the serious elite soccer players only. Please don't ruin the chances of Oregon girls ever being able to compete at all vs their sisters to the south. Please don't turn Thorns Oregon GDA into some weakened same old club kind of gig. GDA doesn't have to be a Yugo in Oregon. Girls might threaten but they will give up other soccer & sports for a legitimate GDA program.
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On paper you can do any sport you want as long as it isn't soccer. In reality
- your club will pressure you not to do anything else. They want all your focus, mental and physical, on soccer. They also don't want you to get injured
- realistically there is little time for HS sports. Imagine doing a long track meet+bus ride, then going to an intense 2 hour practice? There will always be conflicts and in DA you aren't allowed to miss anything basically unless you broke your leg and you're getting it set. So unless your HS coach is really understanding and lets you skip stuff (answer:it won't happen) you really have to chose. A few boys have pulled it off but the are the rare exception and I don't know how they did it.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThe point is that if you are all in, you need to be all in. Screwing around in other sports means you are not all in.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostMany soccer players are represented in the student-athletes competing in the Oregon HS track championships this weekend. Congrats to all competing for balancing a busy life of school, dual sports, and family.
To the GDA girls competing this weekend, enjoy your final weekend of HS sports. I'm sure it will be bittersweet. No sarcasm here - I hope you are making the right decision. I'm sure that weighs heavily on you and you are sacrificing a lot. I hope it's worth it.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostMany soccer players are represented in the student-athletes competing in the Oregon HS track championships this weekend. Congrats to all competing for balancing a busy life of school, dual sports, and family.
To the GDA girls competing this weekend, enjoy your final weekend of HS sports. I'm sure it will be bittersweet. No sarcasm here - I hope you are making the right decision. I'm sure that weighs heavily on you and you are sacrificing a lot. I hope it's worth it.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostJesh what a Debbie Downer. Some girls might actually be happy about their choices, but thanks for planting those seeds of doubt.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostBingo. The Socal GDA & Ecnl girls & the NorCal GDA & Ecnl girls will all be training (the required by US Soccer) MINIMUM 4x/week, not doing high school soccer or other sports. Get on board Thorns GDA or have our Oregon girls left even further behind. GDA is supposed to be for the serious elite soccer players only. Please don't ruin the chances of Oregon girls ever being able to compete at all vs their sisters to the south. Please don't turn Thorns Oregon GDA into some weakened same old club kind of gig. GDA doesn't have to be a Yugo in Oregon. Girls might threaten but they will give up other soccer & sports for a legitimate GDA program.
Allowing kids to do other sports and only practice a couple days a week will give life balance and that is important. Why is it any of your business?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostMany soccer players are represented in the student-athletes competing in the Oregon HS track championships this weekend. Congrats to all competing for balancing a busy life of school, dual sports, and family.
To the GDA girls competing this weekend, enjoy your final weekend of HS sports. I'm sure it will be bittersweet. No sarcasm here - I hope you are making the right decision. I'm sure that weighs heavily on you and you are sacrificing a lot. I hope it's worth it.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThe girls knew going in that they were making a choice to give up some things to be a better soccer player. Why is that so bittersweet? Nobody forced them.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostAgree and good for them. The girls in CA are going full bore with a minimum of 4 practices per week with no other soccer or other sports/distractions. We have local girls also willing to go all in for soccer and that's a good thing. Our girls are already so far behind the girls from CA and other states. We should get behind the local girls that are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to become an elite soccer player.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThe point is that if you are all in, you need to be all in. Screwing around in other sports means you are not all in.
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