Studs

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What is the age that you know your D is a real stud?

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When she starts bringing boys to the yard

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What is the age that you know your D is a real stud?

To early in the morning for this nonsense

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What is the age that you know your D is a real stud?

You can identify players from a young age in my opinion. Most players who stand out at the younger age groups while playing at the highest level are studs to me. Not the kids who stand out in low level competition.

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So hard to tell. Kids who are studs young…stand out players, could maintain. But some are late bloomers and developers. So much can happen. Especially girls.

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You can identify players from a young age in my opinion. Most players who stand out at the younger age groups while playing at the highest level are studs to me. Not the kids who stand out in low level competition.

Disagree. The “studs” on my D’s team at 11 were not by 15 and all but one out of the game by 17.

Conversely a few if the scrubs became studs by 15.

Never discount puberty .

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Disagree. The “studs” on my D’s team at 11 were not by 15 and all but one out of the game by 17.

Conversely a few if the scrubs became studs by 15.

Never discount puberty .

This is so untrue. I think people confuse top player on team with stud. If you watch enough games at age 11 it’s very pretty easy to know who’ll be good at 15. There will always be exceptions, but you don’t know soccer if you thought a player was a stud at 11 and wasn’t good at 15.

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This is so untrue. I think people confuse top player on team with stud. If you watch enough games at age 11 it’s very pretty easy to know who’ll be good at 15. There will always be exceptions, but you don’t know soccer if you thought a player was a stud at 11 and wasn’t good at 15.

Ask 100 ppl where Scottie Pippen, Terrell Owens, Jerry Rice or Micheal Strahan went to college. I bet 75 won’t know where. They were late bloomers. They get over looked for various reasons. The Chicago bears passed on Patrick Mahomes. See my point. So hard to tell. And we are talking about young girls. Work ethic and genetics and good coaching are huge.

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Ask 100 ppl where Scottie Pippen, Terrell Owens, Jerry Rice or Micheal Strahan went to college. I bet 75 won’t know where. They were late bloomers. They get over looked for various reasons. The Chicago bears passed on Patrick Mahomes. See my point. So hard to tell. And we are talking about young girls. Work ethic and genetics and good coaching are huge.

Scottie pippin grew 7 inches in college. He was also in central Arkansas in the early 80s when there was no internet. If the same thing happened in todays world, he transfers to a powerhouse after a year or 2. A persons college choice isn’t indicative of how good they were or weren’t. Strahan went to Texas Southern because his uncle played there.

I Agree with the late bloomer point and coaching / work ethic stuff. No one knows.. but I disagree with using people’s college choices to prove a point.

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This is so untrue. I think people confuse top player on team with stud. If you watch enough games at age 11 it’s very pretty easy to know who’ll be good at 15. There will always be exceptions, but you don’t know soccer if you thought a player was a stud at 11 and wasn’t good at 15.

But puberty changes everything, especially for girls. There was a girl on D's U11 team who looked like a stud. But then she started going through puberty, her hips got really wide, became relatively slow compared to her peers and quit after her U13 season.

Regarding the late bloomers, in may respects, they have a much better chance of becoming studs. In those middle school years when their peers go through growth spurts, they get used to playing against bigger/faster/stronger players...and the ones who stick with it develop more skills and creativity to be able to compete with those bigger/faster/stronger kids...so by the time they do go through their growth spurt, they are on the whole more skilled players that finally are able to play with the same size/speed/strength.

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This is so untrue. I think people confuse top player on team with stud. If you watch enough games at age 11 it’s very pretty easy to know who’ll be good at 15. There will always be exceptions, but you don’t know soccer if you thought a player was a stud at 11 and wasn’t good at 15.

I was amazed at the skill level of some kids when my D first stepped into a good program. Having played
the game my entire life I mused there were kids with better skills than I had. It was true. Some really good players. One is excelling at a D1 school. One never grew and by HS she got swallowed up. One leveled off and concentrated on skiing.

Bodies change. Interests change.

What I won’t do is tell someone their experiences are right or wrong. You do you.

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What is the age that you know your D is a real stud?

My d was a stud at 10. Probably the best in the state. She was high scorer in little Kickers. She already has colleges looking at her, and she's only 11. She currently plays at SJEB 2011, and they are probably the best 2011 team on the east coast. Yup, my d helped get them there. She already had a offer for the USYNT playing up 3 years but we turned it down.

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What is the age that you know your D is a real stud?

When she tells you to “F Off” on the sidelines when you yell instructions to her. I find it distasteful referring to young ladies with that word.

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My d was a stud at 10. Probably the best in the state. She was high scorer in little Kickers. She already has colleges looking at her, and she's only 11. She currently plays at SJEB 2011, and they are probably the best 2011 team on the east coast. Yup, my d helped get them there. She already had a offer for the USYNT playing up 3 years but we turned it down.

Oh wow, mine too!

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I thought this was going to be about shoes.