HS Girls Soccer??

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The GDAs will buckle and give in to HS soccer , becoming equal to ECNL.

Um, no they won't. Everyone said the same thing about the boy's academy, and they're still waiting

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It's HS soccer folks!!! It's not about playing in college (Club soccer, i.e. ECNL, R3PL, etc. will take care of the recruitment), it's about playing for your school, playing with your friends and making memories - Senior Night, etc. Most leagues break for HS anyway so give it a rest, let the girls play HS, have fun and get away from the stress and competition (and the crazy parents) for a few months. After all, very few girls/players will make soccer a career and you can't get back the most important times/memories as those made in HS!!! Just relax everyone - all will be okay!!!

Ha folks my daughter it playing tonight please come see her play so I can have my trickle down my leg watching her play with 2nd and 3rd level players. You know she plays ECNL! I just said the memories and friend thing above was really about me as a parent. My friends and memories are what is important. And look at all the colleges lining the fence at the Eastside game my daughter plays for they only came to see my daughter. You really have to omit the other girls on the team don't have a chance to get excepted to any of the 1000s of colleges that want my daughter. She does play ECNL you know. They allow girls to play High School. O, DA next year!! Well we aren't playing because she is wants to play HS and that would upset my orgasmic rush that I need to have watching my daughter play. Now lets be real, other parents love seeing her play around the 2nd and 3rd and 4th level players, don't you. Her skill level is like watching a pro walking onto a court in the hood and showing their stuff giving the in your face Bitch I'm a goddess on this turf. Those girls who want to play DA are the ones that really need to stay off my daughters turf. I am the greatest parent soccer players in the world.

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Ha folks my daughter it playing tonight please come see her play so I can have my trickle down my leg watching her play with 2nd and 3rd level players. You know she plays ECNL! I just said the memories and friend thing above was really about me as a parent. My friends and memories are what is important. And look at all the colleges lining the fence at the Eastside game my daughter plays for they only came to see my daughter. You really have to omit the other girls on the team don't have a chance to get excepted to any of the 1000s of colleges that want my daughter. She does play ECNL you know. They allow girls to play High School. O, DA next year!! Well we aren't playing because she is wants to play HS and that would upset my orgasmic rush that I need to have watching my daughter play. Now lets be real, other parents love seeing her play around the 2nd and 3rd and 4th level players, don't you. Her skill level is like watching a pro walking onto a court in the hood and showing their stuff giving the in your face Bitch I'm a goddess on this turf. Those girls who want to play DA are the ones that really need to stay off my daughters turf. I am the greatest parent soccer players in the world.

Was that a haiku?!?

Jeez man....take a writing class. SMH

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Um, no they won't. Everyone said the same thing about the boy's academy, and they're still waiting

No they won't at all. They only care about the top 1% of players and those players will give up HS no problem. The rest are practice players. It's going to be made up of players who think they're in the 1% (or delusional parents who think their kids are), their HS programs suck, they don't have a good local option, or some who do genuinely want to play better soccer. That means whoever likes their HS programs or current club options won't move, and that will include plenty of talent.

Also, if they relent with the girls then they have to for the boys. It just won't ever happen.

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No they won't at all. They only care about the top 1% of players and those players will give up HS no problem. The rest are practice players. It's going to be made up of players who think they're in the 1% (or delusional parents who think their kids are), their HS programs suck, they don't have a good local option, or some who do genuinely want to play better soccer. That means whoever likes their HS programs or current club options won't move, and that will include plenty of talent.

Also, if they relent with the girls then they have to for the boys. It just won't ever happen.

How many times have I heard coaches (college and other experienced coaches) say, when players come back from hs their levels have dropped. My daughter's future college coach has hinted that he doesn't want my daughter playing hs and she will not. She will take that time to train. I am not saying hs soccer is bad. I am saying that hs is not for my daughter and there is nothing wrong with that.

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Unless you're on a top ECNL team like Texas, Mich, or even GA, skipping HS soccer is ridiculous! We have a girl on our HS team who doesn't play anymore because she's on Boca United ECNL and HS soccer isn't "high enough" level for her! Give me a break! She's a pudgy slow average player who's committed to a crappy college and HS soccer is beneath her now that she plays ECNL. The funniest part is her (my daughters) HS team is way better than her Boca United crappy ECNL team. This is what's wrong with ECNL here in Florida and especially Boca United. Players and parents get attitudes just because they play ECNL and it's ridiculous. This kid especially needs HS soccer because she needs the fitness and she and her father think it's beneath her now. ECNL allows kids to play HS soccer at least for now so there's no reason that they don't! It's. It's not just about the level all the time, they have their club for skill development.

So just to be clear, this "average" player has already been committed to a college, but her and her family's choice to not play in HS so offended you that you (mature parent) would call this young girl "pudgy slow average" and her college choice "crappy" and her club team "crappy." And from her choice alone, you now know what's wrong with her club, all its parents and players, and what's wrong with all the ECNL clubs in the entire state of Florida.

Why not live and let live, and allow people to make choices for themselves without the weight of you judgement crashing down on them, and maybe they can do the same for you?

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This is what I find interesting:

Go to the profiles page of any collegiate women's team and most (if not all) the girls have ECNL and ODP credentials on their resume. BUT they also ALL have high school soccer and or prep on there. They were captains of their high school team, or team MVP, received all county or all state accolades, led their team in scoring or other statistical categories, might have even played in a state title game or two.

So to sit here and say that high school soccer DOESN'T matter is complete BS.

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This is what I find interesting:

Go to the profiles page of any collegiate women's team and most (if not all) the girls have ECNL and ODP credentials on their resume. BUT they also ALL have high school soccer and or prep on there. They were captains of their high school team, or team MVP, received all county or all state accolades, led their team in scoring or other statistical categories, might have even played in a state title game or two.

So to sit here and say that high school soccer DOESN'T matter is complete BS.

To start off, I'm for my daughter playing in HS soccer. And as another parent posted, try logic on teenage girls, haha, they'd just about pick their friends over everything.

Having said that, up until now, playing HS was not off limits for girls and so if you just love soccer, you play wherever you can, and you're resume will reflect that, and colleges look for that. So yes, I think it has mattered, up until now.

What happen's when DA says if you want to play and develop at the top level, if you want to be seen where all the recruiters go, then you have to give up HS? Will things go the way it has pretty much gone with the boys, and we all fall in line? Or will the girls hold out, even giving up DA to play with their HS friends? If there's a chance that playing HS will put their soccer future at risk, will they? What about the younger girls playing now? If you're starting DA at age 12 and you know DA won't allow you to play in HS, by age 14 will you care?

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I cannot think of a more mundane topic.

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I cannot think of a more mundane topic.

So why are you here? Trolling I guess

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So why are you here? Trolling I guess

I was wondering how there could possibly be 10 posts on this topic, let alone 20. It was as boring as anticipated.

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I was wondering how there could possibly be 10 posts on this topic, let alone 20. It was as boring as anticipated.

OK, thanks for sharing. Good bye then. Unless your trolling, then I guess we'll be hearing from you again, as boring as you say it is to you.

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OK, thanks for sharing. Good bye then. Unless your trolling, then I guess we'll be hearing from you again, as boring as you say it is to you.

Listen Weston new ecnl club mandated they don't want h.s. soccer
Communicated can only go to 2 tryouts in October then nothing till November when Weston is in break
Other ecnl not mandatin this why does Weston think is ok

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This is changing , with more and more girls playing club soccer the larger the pools of competitive players become in each HS . Certainly there are only a limited number of ECNL caliber players available but the days of having to use Rec players have almost come to an end .

Let the clubs bet stronger and play year around. ECNL or not, better to have them train club year around. HS soccer kills the game...

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This is what I find interesting:

Go to the profiles page of any collegiate women's team and most (if not all) the girls have ECNL and ODP credentials on their resume. BUT they also ALL have high school soccer and or prep on there. They were captains of their high school team, or team MVP, received all county or all state accolades, led their team in scoring or other statistical categories, might have even played in a state title game or two.

So to sit here and say that high school soccer DOESN'T matter is complete BS.

Why do you think that's on there? Since they are playing collegiate there is a natural line of progression to go from High School to College-- academia. It's a standard question that the colleges put on the little form you fill out in pre-season. Secondly, all local news papers have a prep section, right? Where local high school sports are featured. This makes sense for football and baseball and even basketball where the main feeding system for college recruiters is HS. With all stats from HS being recorded in the paper, why not use it? Secondly, since the HS sports system is divided the way it is, everyone makes regionals and take home some cup if you have a decent team. What's the equivalent in club soccer? Not everyone plays the same tourneys and there are a few tourneys that are prestige. Then you have state cup. Well guess what- only 15-18 kids per age group and gender get to credit themselves as state cup champs. You got more than 15-18 kids per state going to college and play every year, so you won't see that on their wrap sheet.

Also, and I think this is interesting, how many showcases (real ones like CASL and those) do you see that are targeted to High School teams?