GDA Info Night Tonight

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ECNL = $5,800 per year.
Thorns = $3,000 per year

ECNL has a rock solid track record of college signings.

I'm sure thorns have gotten a few over the years?

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Crossfire cut fee by $200 and is giving away free ECNL kits in an effort to not have players leave. If they had faith in the product they wouldn't be throwing out freebies. They know the program only has about a year left.

That's why they are giving away the uniforms ;)

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Girls that play soccer get athletic scholarships.

USYS leagues and their championship series have 100x more college players as byproducts of their historical competitive platform in the last 25 years, than any other league offering ever invented.

With that fact being a known, known--should all clubs play in only the USYS leagues and championship series--above all other league offerings?

That's the insane dose of logic being vomited out over and over by the FC PDX and CU contingent.

Do you really think it's convincing any Oregonians to join your club? Only those that can afford 10K per year even consider it. It's really that simple.

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ECNL = $5,800 per year.
Thorns = $3,000 per year

ECNL has a rock solid track record of college signings.

College is an easy choice. ECNL is the proven track.

If you want path to pros instead, Thorns is a good option and $200 less per month.

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Girls that play soccer get athletic scholarships.

USYS leagues and their championship series have 100x more college players as byproducts of their historical competitive platform in the last 25 years, than any other league offering ever invented.

With that fact being a known, known--should all clubs play in only the USYS leagues and championship series--above all other league offerings?

That's the insane dose of logic being vomited out over and over by the FC PDX and CU contingent.

Do you really think it's convincing any Oregonians to join your club? Only those that can afford 10K per year even consider it. It's really that simple.

Be fair. At Crossfire it's only $9800, and they include shirts.

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ECNL = $5,800 per year.
Thorns = $3,000 per year

ECNL has a rock solid track record of college signings.

Can anyone produce a list of college signings for Thorns this year?

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College is an easy choice. ECNL is the proven track.

If you want path to pros instead, Thorns is a good option and $200 less per month.

ECNL is less than 8 years old. How many 8 year old things do you consider "proven"?

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There should be one DA for the Soccer junkie elites. One ECNL for soccer junkies that play some other individual sports. OYSA for true multi sport athletes that play Lacrosse, Basketball, Track, etc. Several kids we know gave up basketball, track and softball to accommodate ECNL so careful to hype that up as the pathway for multi-sport kids. The only thing it really affords time for is HS Soccer.

It isn't common but there are ECNL players who have successfully navigated being able to do other sports in HS (basketball, skiing, track are the most common). Some colleges supposedly even like to see that. I would imagine it is extremely rare for players to be exceptional at soccer and something else and get your point. The fact is no one likes to talk about it but the staggering number of injuries occurring at younger ages because only playing one sport is well documented. GDA/ECNL both need to make sure these kids are all working on cross training in whatever capacity so not wearing down these kids. I'd be interested in seeing date on boys DA and injuries happening now that it has been around for a while.

At this point, the track record of ECNL for getting local top female players into collegiate soccer key. Will have to wait and see how GDA fares and that will take a couple years. I don't want my kid to be a guinea pig for anything.

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Can anyone produce a list of college signings for Thorns this year?

A number of girls already verbally committed but still have 1-3 years before college.

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Can anyone produce a list of college signings for Thorns this year?

It wasn't a good year for that but hope to get better.

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At this point, the track record of ECNL for getting local top female players into collegiate soccer key.

To clarify the 'ECNL' has no record of getting girls into college. It's just a league.

It's actually the stand alone CLUB that has a record of getting girls into college.
Slammers, Surf, Real So Cal, Eclipse etc....

Since the locally based FC and CU clubs joined the ECNL their record of getting girls into college has gone down vs the era when those 3 clubs LOSC, FC & THUSC played in the OYSA/USYS platform.

GDA is not a local Oregon Club option, since no Oregon club will ever get that nod from US Soccer. Only the NWSL Portland team gets it, as part of it's infrastructure and US Soccer directive.

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Can anyone produce a list of college signings for Thorns this year?

The NWSL Portland Thorns Academy hasn't gotten many over the years.

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To clarify the 'ECNL' has no record of getting girls into college. It's just a league.

It's actually the stand alone CLUB that has a record of getting girls into college.
Slammers, Surf, Real So Cal, Eclipse etc....

Since the locally based FC and CU clubs joined the ECNL their record of getting girls into college has gone down vs the era when those 3 clubs LOSC, FC & THUSC played in the OYSA/USYS platform.

GDA is not a local Oregon Club option, since no Oregon club will ever get that nod from US Soccer. Only the NWSL Portland team gets it, as part of it's infrastructure and US Soccer directive.

Thanks for clarification. We had heard from several DOCs the combined college/OYSA numbers were higher three years ago before ECNL. I hope girls aren't just quitting the sport if they don't make one of these expensive travel teams.

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The NWSL Portland Thorns Academy hasn't gotten many over the years.

For 2017 ECNL got 40 girls into college.
Other/Timbers Alliance got 40+

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For 2017 ECNL got 40 girls into college.
Other/Timbers Alliance got 40+

NWSL Portland Thorns Academy is pathtopros.