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abouttogetmessi, on 22 Oct 2015 - 10:58 AM, said:

 

"The comics come the fact that every person on this thread that is saying A/AA should stay as it is private school background peeps. I played high school soccer for a top 5 private school in the state. I know how private schools are operated. My senior class had 3 college soccer commits and the class lower than me had 5. You find this nowhere in public schools in A/AA."

 

Congrats to you and your opportunity to play for a top 5 private school in high school!  I would be willing to bet that the 3 commits in your class and the 5 in the class below you got noticed because of their "travel team" experience, not because they played on one of the top 5 private schools in the state.   My point AGAIN was, to make it to the championship or make a deep run, a smattering of "travel" players on your team (who have experienced year round training) sure helps regardless of if your team is public or private!   

I would most definitely agree with this. Travel experience is definitely needed for a successful state championship run. Maybe I just assumed that was a given.

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The interesting thing about ridgeway winning in big time fashion is the next year they moved to AAA and have not done much since that move.this is reverse of Knox Catholic who had troubles in AAA and moved to A-AA and promptly won twice.

 

Travel players help, but Page has 9 travel players and have lost to CPA three times this year. Page has a great coach and lots of travel players and it didn't change much as a result.

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It's the GUM.  

That has gotta be it! Next time we play CPA I will bust out the visor and gum.  Would love to see a rematch in the State Final.

 

I have never seen an A/AA high school team as hungry in front of the net as the CPA boys team last spring and their girls team this fall.  Their athleticism is tough to match up with.

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