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[QUOTE="upstater, post: 3213794, member: 153"]
The clubs that do this are high end and have a track record. It is also a demand of US Soccer teams affiliated with the DA. This is mainly a problem on the boy's side where the tie with US Soccer is long established, but on the girl's side there are fewer DA teams so it's not a big problem.

But, I will say that 80% of our club's girls on the top team get college scholarships, so parents do see the incentive (although personally I could make a dozen arguments why these scholarships are not all they are cracked up to be -- like, half scholarships at schools your kid doesn't necessarily want to even go to! All the money you spend on soccer doesn't add up even when you get a scholarship). Of the 18 girls on the team, only 4 or 5 landed full D1 scholarships. The rest essentially picked over the scraps (hate to sound so condescending about half scholarships, but the truth is many schools give half scholarships to a kid just for breathing).
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