We are looking to join an IMPACT team this fall. Can someone give information on current standings, and feedback on the league. Is it higher level of competition or same as NPL? Which clubs have better IMPACT teams? Do they travel outside MA? New England? I know this is a new league. We aren’t ready for ECNL or GA.
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Wide range of quality. A club like Aztec has its top teams in Impact, Stars places their 5th teams there, Select their 2nd and 3rd.Originally posted by Guest View Post
How old is your kid? At the younger ages, definitely look for quality coaching, regardless of league. Also-you mentioned ECNL and GA. I would caution you against looking at Impact as a springboard to one of those leagues. Especially if you go to a club that has Impact teams below GA/ECNL. Kids don’t climb the ladder from impact at clubs like Select or Stars. It doesn’t happen.Comment
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Select will bring players up to GA from Impact. Stars won’t.Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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Impact IS NPL. The winner goes to NPL finals in CO. If you’re asking if it’s stronger than NEP NPL, I would say yes, especially since most of these teams were in NEP NPL at one point and now that they’re gone, lower teams were promoted.Originally posted by Guest View Post
Most games are in MA but you might get to CT or RI as well. Finals for winner in CO. Ask club if they participate in any out of state tournaments otherwise.
As for quality, clubs that put top team in will likely have a higher quality than those who don’t. If you’re thinking ECNL in the future, don’t play Stars Impact. That would be a huge leap.Comment
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So you can’t get on ECNL after proving your self through Impact, NPL, ECRL, etc, please tell me how does an athlete get picked for ECNL? Attending tryouts? I doubt it? From within the club on lower teams, no. From being recruited? Who’s recruiting 13 year olds and from where? All players come from somewhere. So crazy you think a kid can’t get good enough playing on Impact to move up to ECNL or GA.Comment
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Sorry to let you know, but a kid will have a better shot at ECNL or GA coming from outside of the club then from a lower team within the club.Originally posted by Guest View Post
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Calm down, pal. Not at all what I’m saying. A kid can absolutely develop on an NPL team and get good enough for ECNL or GA. My advice was specific to Stars. Impact NPL is their 5th team. If you bring in a kid to Stars on to their 5th team at U13, it’s very, very, very unlikely that kid is moving up that many teams within their own club to make ECNL by U15.Originally posted by Guest View Post
Where do clubs recruit? From outside their club. So here’s a hint: if your kid isn’t ready for ECNL, go find the best Impact team you can. Then move to ECNL.
signed,
parent of a current ECNL player who started at NPL in another club and swooped in during HS for a spotComment
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First, ECNL is not the only pathway or golden ticket to D1, there is GA. Second Stars is not the only club with ECNL there is Scorpions. Last telling parents their kid will not make the Stars ECNL teams from within could cause parents to avoid putting their kid at Stars until they go to ECNL tryouts later. Which means Stars would not have younger developmental teams which fund the older. When I hear this I wonder who spreads these false rumors? Because on one hand you want your daughter to swoop in and take a spot on ECNL in her teen years but then in the next breath you discredit the coaching and development of the younger kids teams. What’s your angle?
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This is true at most clubs with their "marketing teams"....meaning anything above regional teams including NPL/DPL. With very few exceptions the ways your player lands on a higher than regional team roster are:Originally posted by Guest View Post- Be clearly better than a STARTING player on that teams roster. No coach is going to disrupt their team for a non-starting player. This goes for players currently at the club and outsiders.
- Play a position that the higher level team currently needs and be at least as good as the bench players on the roster AND come from outside the club. There's a good chance the player will be replaced after the current season if they don't improve to match starting player level of play.
- Play a position that the higher level team currently needs and they can't find someone from outside the club to add to the roster.
So how does your player get onto an ECNL/GA roster and stay there? See bullet point #1 above.Comment
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Sorry, editing my last to include...."So how does your player get onto an ECNL/GA roster and stay there? See bullet point #1 above. If she is then contact the club and ask to attend some practices; don't wait for official tryouts"Comment
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The general comments don’t mean much. Take a look at the record of the club and team you’re interested in.Originally posted by Guest View Post
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I think you’re hearing what you want to hear. Do you have a younger kid on Stars NPL and this isn’t the news you want?Originally posted by Guest View Post
Not discrediting any coaching at any level. Not discrediting the players. I’m saying realistically speaking it is very unlikely that at Stars, an Impact player is being promoted past the ECRL teams and onto the national teams from within the club. You can be mad. Doesn’t make it less true.
Impact is new but go ask the current U15 Blue team for a show of hands for how many of them were on the FIFTH level team 2 or 3 seasons ago.Comment
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I think the above poster summarized the situation quite well.Originally posted by Guest View Post
I'll add that you should try to understand the style of play. I've seen plenty of successful kick and run athletes show up at an ECNL/GA practice and be lost. That and the speed of play are the two biggest barriers to move up, other than the new money angle.
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