Oakwood

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Yes, better to go to VA, FL, NC, or West Coast to play like OW does and then get contacted by Eastern and Endicott.

Don't forget giving up high school for that too!

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The only ones giving up high school are the ones that choose to, if they want to play HS the opportunity is there... as you probably know Oakwood has more than one team at each age group. Everyone has a choice and the choice is theirs for whatever works for them

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The only ones giving up high school are the ones that choose to, if they want to play HS the opportunity is there... as you probably know Oakwood has more than one team at each age group. Everyone has a choice and the choice is theirs for whatever works for them

yea great choice. Play in a league thats 2nd tier at best and give up HS or play in a 5th tier league and play HS. Definitely true that there's choices. More choices for some than others, though.

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Oakwood no longer has two teams at every level far from it. They are hurting and the on field results show this. They will take any kid who have parents that write check. Truth be told those yellow stand up players on the field have more skill and size then some kids playing in the GA

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You must be new here or have little player. This might go down as the most informed and ignorant post of the year and that is a very high bar.

Oakwood's best team in the last decade which basically had every player recruited was accepted and played at PDA a few times. The event was hugely beneficial for the team even thought they weren't in the top flight. Those flights are typically reserved for the top dogs in the ECNL. There's only been one team in CT in recent years that played in those brackets.

The allure of the ECNL is the exposure through the showcase events. An automatic bid to PDA is alone is worth it for college bound athletes. That is without a doubt the very top showcase in the country. IF other teams from the club were accepted they'd go in a heartbeat especially with DA dissolved.

PDA gets 400+ coaches at their event. They represent every level and shop every level of talent. Is Duke coming to watch the two work U16 teams square off? Probably not but if one of them has a stud, they might. Being on the fields at PDA is prize, no one cares about results in a showcase.

While I realize you are defending you kids soccer club, why the need to make stupid and uninformed comments? It's a poor look and honestly not how the majority of us who actually understand this process feel about it.

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Very true. PDA is the single most important Showcase event for girls soccer players. The reason the CFC United ECNL class of 2019 and 2020 players in CT were mostly all D1 commits was due to the fact that they were on good ECNL teams that played in the top brackets each year at PDA. Conversely, the class of 2021 played in a bottom bracket when they were sophomores in HS and then Covid cancelled the event their Junior year. If these same girls competed at PDA in May, they would all be committed by now

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Very true. PDA is the single most important Showcase event for girls soccer players. The reason the CFC United ECNL class of 2019 and 2020 players in CT were mostly all D1 commits was due to the fact that they were on good ECNL teams that played in the top brackets each year at PDA. Conversely, the class of 2021 played in a bottom bracket when they were sophomores in HS and then Covid cancelled the event their Junior year. If these same girls competed at PDA in May, they would all be committed by now

Sit down misinformed

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Very true. PDA is the single most important Showcase event for girls soccer players. The reason the CFC United ECNL class of 2019 and 2020 players in CT were mostly all D1 commits was due to the fact that they were on good ECNL teams that played in the top brackets each year at PDA. Conversely, the class of 2021 played in a bottom bracket when they were sophomores in HS and then Covid cancelled the event their Junior year. If these same girls competed at PDA in May, they would all be committed by now

Probably not. Lots of selfish players on that team that have never known their lane.

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Probably not. Lots of selfish players on that team that have never known their lane.

Covid definitely hasn't helped but it isn't the only reason that team isn't done yet

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Spoken like a loser who has never been to the showcase. This showcase is massive and the exposure is amazing. OW has sent a few teams here and there; but nothing substantial.

Spoken like someone who brought his FSA daughter to PDA twice and Jeff Cup twice. Unless you are in the top flight the only time you will see a coach is if they are lost.

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You must be new here or have little player. This might go down as the most informed and ignorant post of the year and that is a very high bar.

Oakwood's best team in the last decade which basically had every player recruited was accepted and played at PDA a few times. The event was hugely beneficial for the team even thought they weren't in the top flight. Those flights are typically reserved for the top dogs in the ECNL. There's only been one team in CT in recent years that played in those brackets.

The allure of the ECNL is the exposure through the showcase events. An automatic bid to PDA is alone is worth it for college bound athletes. That is without a doubt the very top showcase in the country. IF other teams from the club were accepted they'd go in a heartbeat especially with DA dissolved.

PDA gets 400+ coaches at their event. They represent every level and shop every level of talent. Is Duke coming to watch the two work U16 teams square off? Probably not but if one of them has a stud, they might. Being on the fields at PDA is prize, no one cares about results in a showcase.

While I realize you are defending you kids soccer club, why the need to make stupid and uninformed comments? It's a poor look and honestly not how the majority of us who actually understand this process feel about it.

_Another Oakwood Parent

Not uninformed. Just telling the truth. PDA is massive. Tons of coaches but good luck getting them to show up. Unless you are in the top flight - which CT teams are not - then there will be very little chance of coaches showing up. That’s a fact

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Not uninformed. Just telling the truth. PDA is massive. Tons of coaches but good luck getting them to show up. Unless you are in the top flight - which CT teams are not - then there will be very little chance of coaches showing up. That’s a fact

Had two daughter’s recruited there. Club teams were just ok. Couldn’t disagree more with your comments

We have 30+ kids a year in CT move onto D1 programs, most play on mediocre club teams. There’s basically been one team in CT in recent history that was consistently playing in the top flights in these events and that’s CFC 2002 which are now in college. Everyone else is just average.

The only truth you are telling is that your kid targeted wrong

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Spoken like someone who brought his FSA daughter to PDA twice and Jeff Cup twice. Unless you are in the top flight the only time you will see a coach is if they are lost.

Wells it’s FSA

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Not uninformed. Just telling the truth. PDA is massive. Tons of coaches but good luck getting them to show up. Unless you are in the top flight - which CT teams are not - then there will be very little chance of coaches showing up. That’s a fact

You are very much uninformed

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Not uninformed. Just telling the truth. PDA is massive. Tons of coaches but good luck getting them to show up. Unless you are in the top flight - which CT teams are not - then there will be very little chance of coaches showing up. That’s a fact

Your kid can write all she wants, but she is not high level d1 quality just because she can juggle 100 times and because you bought 20 tickets to the dance. Piece of advice, tell her to write to unconn stamford, not Stanford University. Either that, or you better hope all those years of practicing with hot dogs has really taken your wife’s head game to the goat level.

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Not uninformed. Just telling the truth. PDA is massive. Tons of coaches but good luck getting them to show up. Unless you are in the top flight - which CT teams are not - then there will be very little chance of coaches showing up. That’s a fact

So hundreds of coaches are jammed on to the fields for on the top teams?

If no one came to see your kid it's because they weren't interested. She overshot her target. If you can’t get coaches to come see you, you're not doing it right.