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Message: [QUOTE="Chuck, post: 1839734, member: 1646"] Our league has the "entry" level clubs (I'll be in Wyckoff two of the next four Friday nights for our girls games) with the occasional academy (World Class, Cedar Stars). It's definitely a second tier league, but very well run and much more local than MAPS or EDP. Every county is different, as is every age group. I think a lot of the academy placement has to do with other kids from your club. Crush recruited a few of our players aggressively, including making cold calls. A bit creepy for 9 year olds if you ask me. World Class NJ (run out of Superdome) recruited a few of our kids at U8 when we almost beat them. My son hated baseball, which hurt me a bit. I was baseball first, soccer second growing up (even though I was better at soccer than baseball). I didn't want either of my kids to be 100% soccer, so my son started lacrosse last year, and loves it. Our club says that you can give preference to a spring sport over spring soccer, but his coach didn't like that (even though his son also played lax). This year's coach will be better about it (his kid also plays lax). My daughter plays travel basketball on our B team (if you can call it basketball). Definitely tough to do travel baseball and soccer. From what I've seen, baseball is the most demanding of any of the travel sports. We have multiple soccer double-carders, travel basketball, and lax players. Our last baseball player dropped out this year. [/QUOTE]