How did thornz acad end up such a mess?

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The thorns sound like no fun.

Who wants to give up high school activities?

Excessive travel.

When do you get to do homework with four minimum required trainings per week plus long weekend travel?

As one of their coaches pointed out nobody will come to your games, a couple people and a dog.

The birth of the ghost student, who is enrolled, but not a part of the school.

The girls will become hardened eventually and let go of the high school stuff.

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It's incredible that the DA is subsidized does anyone think CU & FC PDX will step up and do the same for their membership and pay for all travel, like the Thorns USDA does?

That would be incredible and make things interesting vs the slam dunk for the USDA Thorns program.

No chance. What good would that do?

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The girls will become hardened eventually and let go of the high school stuff.

The boys gave up hs soccer and all other sports. no problem for the serious soccer player.

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Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
The thorns sound like no fun.

Who wants to give up high school activities?

Excessive travel.

When do you get to do homework with four minimum required trainings per week plus long weekend travel?

As one of their coaches pointed out nobody will come to your games, a couple people and a dog.

The birth of the ghost student, who is enrolled, but not a part of the school.
The girls will become hardened eventually and let go of the high school stuff.

Time to toughen up. You can have memories of training and riding in vans to away games. High school dances can only lead to no good.

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Time to toughen up. You can have memories of training and riding in vans to away games. High school dances can only lead to no good.

The 9 out of 25 that don't get to play in games will also get some of the travel memories I hope.

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The thorns sound like no fun.

Who wants to give up high school activities?

Excessive travel.

When do you get to do homework with four minimum required trainings per week plus long weekend travel?

As one of their coaches pointed out nobody will come to your games, a couple people and a dog.

The birth of the ghost student, who is enrolled, but not a part of the school.
The girls will become hardened eventually and let go of the high school stuff.

Time to toughen up. You can have memories of training and riding in vans to away games. High school dances can only lead to no good.

This is not a laughing matter. Girls get distracted all the time with school activities that is why high school is banned.

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The thorns sound like no fun.

Who wants to give up high school activities?

Excessive travel.

When do you get to do homework with four minimum required trainings per week plus long weekend travel?

As one of their coaches pointed out nobody will come to your games, a couple people and a dog.

The birth of the ghost student, who is enrolled, but not a part of the school.


The girls will become hardened eventually and let go of the high school stuff.

I know when I went to high school there was a lot of funny business after dances.

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It is so damn funny that the majority of the posts on this thread and many other threads are all from the same person with their stupid one to two sentence quips. Dude, you are a tool of the highest magnitude. Nobody is buying your bs.

But, by all means please keep the posts coming. It is hilarious what a dip**** you are.

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This is not a laughing matter. Girls get distracted all the time with school activities that is why high school is banned.

If you read what US Soccer has to say it is pretty much that. High school distracts from marching higher up the development pyramid.

Frankly, a huge risk is always that kids get into relationships that can become an even bigger distraction.

If you are trying to stay on track the more you can stay busy and engaged the better. I know some people value the high school experience and that's their business but if your goal is to reach the pinnacle in soccer tou have to minimize the outside distractions.

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It's incredible that the DA is subsidized does anyone think CU & FC PDX will step up and do the same for their membership and pay for all travel, like the Thorns USDA does?

That would be incredible and make things interesting vs the slam dunk for the USDA Thorns program.

If you're choosing a program based solely on the cost of travel then you need your head read. Sure, Thornz say that they'll pick up the tab for travel (remains to be seen) but they have to do that to get anybody to even look at their otherwise substandard rec-level offerings. Go ahead and save a few coins on travel if you want, just don't come complaining when your DD is riding the pine in games against "C" and "D" level clubs that have never produced anything of consequence.

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If you read what US Soccer has to say it is pretty much that. High school distracts from marching higher up the development pyramid.

Frankly, a huge risk is always that kids get into relationships that can become an even bigger distraction.

If you are trying to stay on track the more you can stay busy and engaged the better. I know some people value the high school experience and that's their business but if your goal is to reach the pinnacle in soccer tou have to minimize the outside distractions.

Again, why bother with Thornz GDA at all then? Not one of those girls "selected" for the GDA this year will ever get a sniff of anything even vaguely related to national team or pro soccer. From looking at the selection lists, it's pretty clear that this year's Thornz teams will actually be WORSE than last year's - and that's saying something.

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If you're choosing a program based solely on the cost of travel then you need your head read. Sure, Thornz say that they'll pick up the tab for travel (remains to be seen) but they have to do that to get anybody to even look at their otherwise substandard rec-level offerings. Go ahead and save a few coins on travel if you want, just don't come complaining when your DD is riding the pine in games against "C" and "D" level clubs that have never produced anything of consequence.

I guess you skimmed over the actual question that was asked.
Will FC or CU step up and cover $8,000 to $10,000 of each girls travel expenses?

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I guess you skimmed over the actual question that was asked.
Will FC or CU step up and cover $8,000 to $10,000 of each girls travel expenses?

Both clubs have very generous scholarship programs for needy kids. They will not cover travel expenses for upper middle class families the way thorns academy is.

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Both clubs have very generous scholarship programs for needy kids. They will not cover travel expenses for upper middle class families the way thorns academy is.

Why not? That's odd.

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I guess you skimmed over the actual question that was asked.
Will FC or CU step up and cover $8,000 to $10,000 of each girls travel expenses?

Our costs this year was less than $5000 and last year less than $6000 but we flew and didn't have ANY trips on a bus or in a van