ECNL Championship Draw

U14 ECNL Championship Series

- Two Cali Teams made into the final Four "Semi" round

- Arsenal v Solar Chelsea
- Surf v Eclipse

- Arsenal Dominated their bracket
- Surf was challenged but got into semis via Goal Differential
- Strikers got off to rough start with a tie and lost for the first two games and could not recover

Great Job Cali teams - way to represent

Total Count (3 Games) who watched our games
- 35 D1 + National team coaches in Attendance who watched atleast 1/2 of a game

Great experience so far!
 
Kongzilla said:
What Age Groups?
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U16's - important recruiting time for ECNL players. But, if you are not on top teams in the championship games it seems like not any more coaches at the showcase games than at other college showcases. Not my DD's team so I wasn't there personally but that's what was reported.
 
I don't know about that, our 1st game against the Strikers U14 we had over 20 colleges watching.
Santa Clara
Florida State
Auburn
Alabama
Texas Tech
Univ of TX
Univ of Kansas
Kansas State
Univ of OK
Oklahoma State
Iowa State
TCU
Virginia Tech
Syracuse
Air Force
South Carolina
Grand Canyon University
Grand Valley State University
Clemson
U of Georgia
UCLA
Providence
U of Denver
U of Arkansas
 
Soccer43 said:
U16's - important recruiting time for ECNL players. But, if you are not on top teams in the championship games it seems like not any more coaches at the showcase games than at other college showcases. Not my DD's team so I wasn't there personally but that's what was reported.
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My player wasn't on a team that ever advanced out of pool play yet her team would routinely have 40-60+ coaches watching. I have run into Jill Ellis, BJ Snow, April Heinrich and others at these events on the sidelines. Your friends situation sounds odd.
 
My buddy has a 2002 (U15) DD in the ECNL playoffs. He told me at Fridays 1st game at least 50 college coaches and yesterday game at least 70 college coaches watched.
 
I am talking about the teams playing in the "showcase" level. As you all know there are three levels of competition at the ECNL playoffs. Championship, North America Cup, and Showcase.

If your team is playing at the Championship level, then yes even all the pool play games have a ton of coaches. U14 games are all championship level only. They don't have North America Cup or Showcase - only 16 top teams from across the country so of course tons of coaches. The bottom level of the ECNL teams that are playing in the Showcase games are not seeing many coaches.
 
I have watched a lot of ECNL games at all levels and the top teams have some amazing talent for the most part. The lower ranked teams are often no better that teams playing in other platforms in my opinion.
 
Soccer43 said:
I am talking about the teams playing in the "showcase" level. As you all know there are three levels of competition at the ECNL playoffs. Championship, North America Cup, and Showcase.

If your team is playing at the Championship level, then yes even all the pool play games have a ton of coaches. U14 games are all championship level only. They don't have North America Cup or Showcase - only 16 top teams from across the country so of course tons of coaches. The bottom level of the ECNL teams that are playing in the Showcase games are not seeing many coaches.
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I have never experienced the showcase bracket games. My DD has only played in the Champions and North American brackets. My take is, if your DD is U16 playing in the showcase bracket. She will need to have a TON of individual club soccer accolades (ODP, PDP, ID2 and/or YNT pool) to attract college coaches, her team probably won't do it on it's own. If she doesn't have those accolades and she a rising 2001 HS Jr. The Power 5 and top mid-major programs have for the most part already identified or commtited the players in your DD's class. Depending on the schools your DD emailed, if they did not show....you should consider revaluating whoch school's she is targetting.

Example: if your DD's top 10 includes the likes of CAL, USC, UCLA type schools....it might be time to form a new top 10 with mid-lower D1, D2 and D3 schools such as UC Davis, USD, Cal State Fullerton, Claremont Colleges, etc.
 
How can Jay FC be the winner of bracket play when Surf's DF is 2+ and Jay FC is Zero? From any other tournament play, a team with a positive goal Dif should be the top team.

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packmule said:
How can Jay FC be the winner of bracket play when Surf's DF is 2+ and Jay FC is Zero? From any other tournament play, a team with a positive goal Dif should be the top team.

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OK, I answered my own questions. Here is the ECNL ruling

3.17.3 ECNL Playoff Standings - Advancement: If two teams are tied within their group at the ECNL Playoffs, the tie-breaker will be as follows:
- Total points earned in head to head game (if possible). If more than two teams are tied, this tie-breaker shall not apply.
- Goal Difference (based on group play);
- Goals For (based on group play);
- Goals Against (based on group play);
- Penalties: If it is still tied, the winner shall be determined by kicks from the mark. The winner shall then be the ECNL Team that scores the most in five (5) kicks from the mark. If the teams remain tied after five (5) kicks, the winner shall be determined by sudden death in rounds of one (1) kick per team. ​
 
All 2001 SoCal teams out. Out coached. Spanked by girls trained to play the game. It wasn't funny. Things need to change. Fast girls are good but knowledgeable girls are better.... Blues did well but Crossfire Premier out did them. Florida outplayed Blues IMO. Crossfire, Top Hat, FC Stars and FC Dallas - they are obviously teaching those girls the game and not shooting the ball at a goalie or scrimmaging while the coaches talk all practice.
 
LadiesMan217 said:
All 2001 SoCal teams out. Out coached. Spanked by girls trained to play the game. It wasn't funny. Things need to change. Fast girls are good but knowledgeable girls are better.... Blues did well but Crossfire Premier out did them. Florida outplayed Blues IMO. Crossfire, Top Hat, FC Stars and FC Dallas - they are obviously teaching those girls the game and not shooting the ball at a goalie or scrimmaging while the coaches talk all practice.
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Always a thing or two to learn along the way, right?!

dislike the TGS ECNL website. Not user friendly. I was pleasantly surprised to experience the TGS ECNL playoffs site to be quite the opposite. Very user friendly.

Today remaining in the Champions League hunt for an ECNL National Championship I see Blues, Surf and Slammers (u15); Slammers (u17); and, Surf (u18) still repping well. Did anyone expect Blues u16's demise in Chicago? I for one did not.
 
GoWest said:
Always a thing or two to learn along the way, right?!

dislike the TGS ECNL website. Not user friendly. I was pleasantly surprised to experience the TGS ECNL playoffs site to be quite the opposite. Very user friendly.

Today remaining in the Champions League hunt for an ECNL National Championship I see Blues, Surf and Slammers (u15); Slammers (u17); and, Surf (u18) still repping well. Did anyone expect Blues u16's demise in Chicago? I for one did not.
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I did not expect the demise until tomorrow or in San Diego. They had a lot of trouble in their last 2 games. It was nice to see teams that can force Blues into possession-like game. Blues girls impressed me with some of the possession game but the other teams looked so much better. The way these girls are taught in SoCal I would expect a U15 or even a u8 team to do well. As they get older that stuff won't work. 2 teams from SoCal representing u16/u17/u18 tells the story. U17 Slammers girls is an anomaly also - they do not need a coach - good set of girls.
 
LadiesMan217 said:
All 2001 SoCal teams out. Out coached. Spanked by girls trained to play the game. It wasn't funny. Things need to change. Fast girls are good but knowledgeable girls are better.... Blues did well but Crossfire Premier out did them. Florida outplayed Blues IMO. Crossfire, Top Hat, FC Stars and FC Dallas - they are obviously teaching those girls the game and not shooting the ball at a goalie or scrimmaging while the coaches talk all practice.
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Dang @LadiesMan217 tell us how you really feel. I have been saying for a long time that playing nationally opens peoples eyes to what is out there. When I hear people saying that SoCal teams don't need to play out of state sides I just shake my head and realize that the person is probably a ULittle parent.
 
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