LAFC Slammers Leaving DA

timbuck said:
Will HS coaches make decisions based on what team a player is on?
IE- will they pick a kid from an ecnl or f1/f2 team over a kid from a dpl team? (Assuming somewhat equal showing in tryouts).
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My DD was a freshman last year at a very competitive HS soccer program and was a flight 1 player. She was only 1 of three freshman pulled up to varsity (we had three teams). We had a couple other ECNL players left at JV and one Champions div girl left on the Freshman team based on the coaches evaluations. I would say based on my experience only, that our HS coaches evaluated what they saw on the field, not the resume the player was coming with.
 
timbuck said:
Will HS coaches make decisions based on what team a player is on?
IE- will they pick a kid from an ecnl or f1/f2 team over a kid from a dpl team? (Assuming somewhat equal showing in tryouts).
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Why would HS coach care where your DD plays? As long as she can play, they will determine on what level team they can play in HS.
Not to say some will get overlooked and some HS program don't have very good coaches.
 
Eagle33 said:
Why would HS coach care where your DD plays? As long as she can play, they will determine on what level team they can play in HS.
Not to say some will get overlooked and some HS program don't have very good coaches.
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My thinking there was if they are a DPL player that gets called up to play on the DA team. I saw some language saying that a “Part Time Player” cannot play high School soccer. Not sure how that is tracked or monitored.
So if I’m a coach trying to assemble a team and there are 8 girls of nearly equal ability. You have 5 spots left. 3 are ecnl. 3 are DPL and 2 are neither.
The 3 ecnl players can play high school without issue. So can their other 2. The DPL players might play 1 game of high School or all games.
Does this factor into a decision on taking a player?
 
timbuck said:
My thinking there was if they are a DPL player that gets called up to play on the DA team. I saw some language saying that a “Part Time Player” cannot play high School soccer. Not sure how that is tracked or monitored.
So if I’m a coach trying to assemble a team and there are 8 girls of nearly equal ability. You have 5 spots left. 3 are ecnl. 3 are DPL and 2 are neither.
The 3 ecnl players can play high school without issue. So can their other 2. The DPL players might play 1 game of high School or all games.
Does this factor into a decision on taking a player?
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I would say yes. If I know my HS player will miss games, I will pick someone who don't
 
Slammerdad said:
My DD was a freshman last year at a very competitive HS soccer program and was a flight 1 player. She was only 1 of three freshman pulled up to varsity (we had three teams). We had a couple other ECNL players left at JV and one Champions div girl left on the Freshman team based on the coaches evaluations. I would say based on my experience only, that our HS coaches evaluated what they saw on the field, not the resume the player was coming with.
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High School is tough sometimes because sometimes those ECNL or Champions Divison girls as freshman can't handle the (usually) physical and speed of play against 17-18 year olds. Others handle is very well. I coach HS and last year I had a Flight 2 player freshman start as a center-mid for me. Why? Because she could flat out play and do what we needed her to do. Sometimes we get DPL or Flight 1 players thinking they are owed something because of what club they play for. The only reason I like to know what club they play for is so I can watch them in the fall before tryouts to get an idea of their talent. Most of them come out to summer so its pretty clear who can play and who cant but I try to give those players a chance to show me what they can do in club as well as high school. End of the day....I care what they can do for the high school team not what trophies they won in club. Also, if a player is a flight 1 or DPL forward as a freshman or sophomore but we already have 6 forwards better on varsity then why waste her time by putting her on varsity. Let them get minutes on the lower level team.

If I bring a freshman up to Varsity its because they will either start or get a lot of playing time. Otherwise I leave them down to play more. There are those HS coaches who will pick a player completely based off their club name. Or better yet, they just cut someone based on their club name because they don't think its good enough.
 
Slammerdad said:
My DD was a freshman last year at a very competitive HS soccer program and was a flight 1 player. She was only 1 of three freshman pulled up to varsity (we had three teams). We had a couple other ECNL players left at JV and one Champions div girl left on the Freshman team based on the coaches evaluations. I would say based on my experience only, that our HS coaches evaluated what they saw on the field, not the resume the player was coming with.
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Then you had intelligent HS coaches and staff. Not the case for our DD. Old boys network, favoritism and parent phone calls eventually took it's toll. Could have been a great team, but petered out when it meant the most. More political crap than club and I was sad that DD didn't really forage the relationships I had in my HS soccer days. Most girls stuck to their club friends on the team, no true bonding and coach listening to parents and resumes more than players and work ethic. My DD is playing DA this season and will not play HS and won't miss it. She will be sad though to not run track. But maybe Sr. year. I think we miss having a multiple sport athlete more than HS soccer any day. There's just not enough time with AP classes, volunteering and then top level soccer and practice 4 days a week.
 
timbuck said:
I noticed that the 05 Slammers team that played in FWR was listed as LAFC USSDA this weekend at Surf Cup. Is that because that’s what they were planning to “be” when they registered?
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I think that’s a yes and seemingly played in the ECNL grouping at SC.
 
Yet some Slammers players also left after the announcement to find seemingly greener pastures at Blues, and Galaxy. Looks like the movement is ever going in multiple directions
 
Kicker4Life said:
Beach did? To ECNL? Do tell....
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Yes, Beach 03 lost several starting players. Not sure on exact number or where they went (probably ECNL but I don't want to guess) but it's something I will be able to find out. That was Beach's top team, they won their 2017-2018 GDA conference. Not sure on reasons they left but I can ask my reliable "in the know" youngers parent next time we see each other at private training.
 
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