My kids have been on teams that had players travel 2 hours each way for practices. One of the players that did that negotiated a deal with the...
Your son will either need to join a club outside of school or attend a special soccer school (we have a few in our area). What area of the US are...
This thread has been very helpful. Our plan will be to only do camps where there is a serious interest (they have seen him play in person or they...
Thanks. This is what he wants to do and I will tell him to make this the plan. ETA: Is it okay for him to tell coaches that invite him to their...
I have an additional question. Are college ID camps necessary? My son will do ECNL showcases but not all of the colleges he is interested in will...
This board has been helpful in the recruiting process and I have another question. How did your kids choose which college ID camps to go to? I...
This is a great idea I hadn’t thought of. It wouldn’t be quite as high but wider and I wouldn’t have to pay for the upgraded structural...
It is this one that I am planning on buying. I was going to get the regular size but then I started thinking the bigger one might be nice
I could use some quick advice. I want to order a soccer rebounder and I am choosing between a couple of different sizes. One is 5' square and the...
Thanks, I signed up for ryzer but they didn't have a bunch of camps I had already checked out dates for so yeah, definitely not exhaustive. I can...
Is there a master list of college ID camps somewhere? Just thinking as we travel for showcases maybe we can catch some camps.
Very helpful. He has reached out to a few schools and we have been told by one of the coaches to keep reaching out monthly because they overlook...
Oh, I agree! He doesn't know where he wants to go so was hoping some college interest would help narrow his choices. He is very strong...
Thanks for the link. I'm going to check some of them out. I have heard a few recruiting talks and the thing I took away was that they understand...
I saw this piece breaking down D1 rosters between US and international players and it seemed appropriate for this thread. "He's a D1...
Our local MLSNext academy team (very highly regarded with many players on national youth team) just joined our UPSL league. It's cool to see them...
I am curious about the club teams. How do you find out about them? Because I know someone whose boy who was on a top ECNL team (a team that sends...
@smontrose This all sounds fantastic. I sent you a PM. Talking to some soccer people around here, it seems that almost everybody at a high level...
I've gotten a lot of good advice for my 16 year old DS for strength training so I am going to ask about acceleration training. DS played UPSL last...
I don't think the statement "USYS clubs that can't get into ECNL Boys" is accurate. Several clubs willingly left MLSNext to change over to ECNL...
I agree with both of your posts, hence why we are so conflicted. DS plays for fun but is also super competitive and interested in college. Soccer...
My younger DS who is an 09 and will be a freshman next year has been doing club tryouts. He has two really good options and both of them are...
True, you do have to find an ECNL coach that is okay with it which might be hard. But the UPSL team seems to have quite a bit of fluidity with...
My DS is trying out for ECNL and MLSNext teams. He has played UPSL for the last year and is still playing in the spring session for that league....
Interesting how much the gap closed for the U17 category. Is this just coincidence or something like MLS academies might have taken a lot of the...