Honest question

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There are certain teams that will continue full team practices even during hs.

Many states have restrictions that your high school teams has to be your first priority. You can't miss any HS practices, let alone games, for club. Next door in CT all club activities are banned as long as your HS team still has games to play (you can start the minute your team is finished for the season or done with playoffs. Either way it's to protect the players physically, mentally and protect them from coaches who will put too much pressure on kids to be at both.

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Many states have restrictions that your high school teams has to be your first priority. You can't miss any HS practices, let alone games, for club. Next door in CT all club activities are banned as long as your HS team still has games to play (you can start the minute your team is finished for the season or done with playoffs. Either way it's to protect the players physically, mentally and protect them from coaches who will put too much pressure on kids to be at both.

My daughter's team has practices during the summer and one day a week during high school.

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My daughter's team has practices during the summer and one day a week during high school.

You would be shocked if you knew how many clubs will do full team practices during the high school season.

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This is helpful! Is anyone’s 09 team training together this summer or are they done now til November? I’m disappointed our team ended spring season and won’t pick up again til late fall. Get them together once a week or something at least in the summer.

It’s up to the team. Ours is an 09 team but we have about half that are 10 playing up. We decided to proceed as normal: summer practice and play fall. The kids who play in HS will be exempt from practice during the week and we added a Sunday practice. We understand there will be conflict and missing but it was what’s best to keep the team moving forward.

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You would be shocked if you knew how many clubs will do full team practices during the high school season.

I believe it. Our coachbsent out a email asking for kids hs schedules.

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Stupid of the clubs, stupid of players to participate.

Why? At most schools, HS soccer is played at such a low level it is a joke. That is why so many kids think of it as a waste of time. If you still want to play in order to be the star athlete on campus you need to practice with your club to practice with kids who are good.

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My 09 Daughters team practice through June once a week and then see you in late fall after high school is done. The coach said they will sometimes start in October but it’s a pool of high school kids practicing not just team practice since kids come from all over it’s hard to have everyone at once

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I am still looking for the justification that clubs use to somehow charge the HS kids the same as the kids that play and train a full year.

4 months worth of product vs. 9 months of product is quite a stark difference.

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D plays for a DE club and would go from HS practice to club but take off on club practice days during HS game days. Since DE HS girls play in the spring games start end of Aug early Sept so she could have as much as 3x HS, 3x club, and 3x games in a week but I think that only happened once. And if you think that is bad then your kid isn't ready to play in college. At worst this was 15hrs a week not including any self training and was usually between 10-12hrs a week. D1 will typically be 30+ hrs a week, D2 can be 25+ hrs a week and D3 20+ hrs a week between training, gym, film, and games.

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I am still looking for the justification that clubs use to somehow charge the HS kids the same as the kids that play and train a full year.

4 months worth of product vs. 9 months of product is quite a stark difference.

For ECNL and GA the normal season just starts later, around end of OCT.

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For ECNL and GA the normal season just starts later, around end of OCT.

Yea, but some clubs will continue full team practices way before that

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I am still looking for the justification that clubs use to somehow charge the HS kids the same as the kids that play and train a full year.

4 months worth of product vs. 9 months of product is quite a stark difference.

At some clubs, the pre-HS teams pay extra for winter training, whereas the HS-aged teams do not. So in total, both pre-HS and HS-aged teams are paying for about the same number of months with basic tuition.

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I am still looking for the justification that clubs use to somehow charge the HS kids the same as the kids that play and train a full year.

4 months worth of product vs. 9 months of product is quite a stark difference.

4 months? Clubs start up as soon as HS is finished, late Oct/early November. There aren't as many games in the winter as spring, but there are definitely practices and in some leagues also winter showcases. Younger kids start late Aug but often don't have as many winter practices or gamesas the older teams. Older teams in better leagues also have a lot more travel and the coach travel is usually baked into the fees.

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Yea, but some clubs will continue full team practices way before that

What clubs? The only ones I know of are in DE or are u14 and trapped 8th graders only until HS is done or about done.

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I am still looking for the justification that clubs use to somehow charge the HS kids the same as the kids that play and train a full year.

4 months worth of product vs. 9 months of product is quite a stark difference.

Younger teams are getting a fee break due to their age, and it goes away in HS.

Not for nothing, but we train August, and then Nov-June at the minimum