ECNL & DA. Is it just about high school soccer? (Spoiler alert: NO)
Fall League Soccer is in full swing. After a summer full of playoffs and tournaments, soccer leagues across the country are now in full-swing. Competitive youth soccer players will be spending their weekends on soccer fields nation-wide. They will be battling for wins, league titles, and the improvement that comes along with highly competitive matches. […]
Living the Impossible Dream: From a Wheelchair to D1 Soccer
Last year, I told you Sarah Trent’s college soccer recruiting story. Recruiting specialists told Sarah all through high school that she needed to give up on her D1 soccer dreams. She didn’t listen. Now, she’s starting her sophomore season at New Mexico State University. Cassandra Herrman: Living her Dreams This year, I’m going to tell […]
Big Time soccer in San Diego — and it’s free!
Local rivalry renews with SDSU vs USD Friday Aug 30 Your chance to see great soccer, a great rivalry, and future pros is coming up soon. On Friday night, Aug 30th, SDSU Men’s Soccer is hosting USD in a cross-down D1 matchup at the SDSU Sportsdeck. Landon Donovan is the man in charge of player […]
Abby Wambach on the Importance of High School Soccer
Abby Wambach is a soccer legend. Olympic Gold Medalist. World Cup Champion. NCAA D1 Champion. And, back in the day, she got to play soccer for her high school. Today’s soccer players have a new and difficult choice to make. Like most of her soccer peers, and the “99ers” who paved the way, she played […]
Legends FC Class of 2019: 72 Players Headed to College Soccer
64 Girls and 8 Boys from Legends FC class of 2019 will be playing college soccer Legends FC fields competitive club teams across the spectrum of youth soccer. Teams range from USSDA, to DPL, and USYS to provide options that will fit a wide variety of players and families. Earlier this month, Legends FC brought […]
Surf Soccer Club Sends Seniors off in Style
High school athletes in America love “Senior Day.” It is a cherished tradition. For soccer players who have chosen to play in the Development Academy, however, “Senior Day” is one item in the long list of sacrifices made to purse the highest levels of their sport. The “High School vs DA” debate marches on, and […]
Big News for San Diego Girls: Rebels SC Accepted into ECNL
On April 15th, 2019, the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) announced that Rebels Soccer Club of San Diego has been accepted into the league. Beginning in the 2019-2020 season, Rebels SC girls’ teams will be competing in one of the top soccer leagues in the country. Read the ECNL announcement here. The ECNL and the […]
Girls’ Recruiting: Adidas College Cup Plays It Smart
In the world of women’s college soccer recruiting, a general belief is that a family has to have their player on a DA or ECNL team in order to be recruited for college soccer. Those two soccer systems, without a doubt, produce college soccer players. However, there are impressive numbers of elite-level players and teams […]
On National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Congrats to SDSC’s Sophia Vivar
February 6th is officially National Girls and Women in Sports Day (#NGWSD). This day is “a national observance celebrating the extraordinary achievements of women and girls in sports.” Sophia Vivar commits to UCSB Committing to an NCAA D1 Women’s Soccer program in 10th grade is definitely an extraordinary achievement. That is exactly what Sophia Vivar […]
College Soccer: Rebels SC’s Madison Rust Signs with Mississippi State
Madison Rust, El Capitan High School class of 2019, has signed her National Letter of Intent. She will be playing NCAA D1 College Soccer at Mississippi State University. Madison Rust, El Capitan High School Class of 2019 Madison is a member of the Rebels SC National Champion team coached by Ryan Marquez. She joined many of […]
Signing Day : National Champions Rebels SC Class of 2019
Signing Day for the National Letter of Intent was Wednesday November 14th. Athletes across the country formalized their verbal commitments to college athletic programs by officially signing NLIs. Eight Rebels SC Girls Sign with NCAA D1 Women’s Soccer The reigning US Youth Soccer National Champions Rebels SC girls 2001 team has been on the radar […]
San Diego Surf’s NLI Signing Day Ceremony
On Wednesday November 14, 2018, high school athletes across the country put pen to paper, officially signing their NLI (National Letters of Intent) to commit to their future college athletics programs. At the Surf Cup Sports Park in Del Mar, San Diego Surf Soccer held a celebratory signing ceremony for their impressive class of high […]
U17 Womens World Cup: San Diego Surf’s Mia Fishel scores USA’s first goal
While many of her San Diego Surf teammates were in San Diego signing their NLI (National Letters of Intent) to play college soccer, UCLA commit Mia Fishel was in Uruguay opening up the scoring account for US Soccer at the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup. USA Cruises to 3-0 win at FIFA U17 Women’s World […]
You Won’t Die if You Choose Not to Play College Soccer after Club
Are you a failure if you’ve been playing club soccer for years but don’t end up playing in college? We are in a time of frantic and stressful college soccer recruiting. Therefore many families are feeling pressure to land a spot on a college team. Now is a good moment to remember that college soccer […]
Carolina Dynamo’s 25th Year
Over the past 25 years, the American minor league soccer landscape has changed countless times, and the Carolina Dynamo has been through it all. In 1993, the Dynamo, based in Greensboro, N.C., won the USISL championship in the club’s first season. Founded by Neil Macpherson, a British transplant with a life-long love of Nottingham Forest, […]
International Recruits are “More Respectful and Less Entitled”
College soccer rosters full of international players are becoming more and more common across the American college soccer landscape. Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida, has been ranked in the top 10 Men’s NCAA DII and the top 50 across all of NCAA for the past two seasons (according to Massey Rankings). […]