<p>I just learned that Macalaster has a JV women’s soccer program. Does anyone know of other LACs w/ JV women’s soccer? </p>
<p>D is not a Mac caliber student and is interested in schools w/ temperate to warm weather (mid-Atlantic, s’east, s’west, CA, etc.), with hippie/punk/edgie and blakck students well-represented in the student body. Current favorites include Guilford, Elon, Hendrix, Clark and Ursinus.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Please look up Goucher College, just outside of Baltimore, Maryland (my home town :)</p>
<p>Goucher has men’s and women’s DV III sports, including a women’s soccer team (I just checked their website). </p>
<p>Also it’s artsy, edgie, and should have a good representation of black students. I base that only on its Baltimore-area location, not having looked up actual demography stats. Also be sure to have her click on “What to Do in Baltimore” on the Goucher website! Good luck.</p>
<p>I don’t see any reference to JV soccer on the Goucher web stie.</p>
<p>NYC,
Alot of schools do not have JV teams, but they do have club teams which still compete, but function much like JV, in that they are a step under Varsity and are often less competitive.</p>
<p>We found that they don’t say anywhere on the website that they have JV teams, but if you ask (send the athletic dept. an email) you may find out that they do. I know several schools we looked at did have JV, but different sport. I don’t know if that makes a difference. A quick email should get you an answer!</p>
<p>Yes, I am aware of club sports. But schools that field JV teams tend to have larger varsity teams and recuit more athletes. </p>
<p>A quick search of web sited (“jv”) indicated that a number of schools field male JV teams, especially basketball and football. Also, at the bottom of the “scheduler” page for male teams, there is often a “click here for Jv schedule” link.</p>
<p>I was just trying to avoid e-mailing every coach. I also wanted to see whether there were JV schools that might not be on our radar, but which D might want to consider.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I thought Goucher expressed that they had Division III women’s soccer:
[Goucher</a> College Athletics Website](<a href=“http://athletics.goucher.edu/sports/wsoc/index]Goucher”>http://athletics.goucher.edu/sports/wsoc/index)</p>
<p>As well, this statement:
[Goucher</a> College Athletics Website](<a href=“http://athletics.goucher.edu/information/about_goucher_athletics]Goucher”>http://athletics.goucher.edu/information/about_goucher_athletics)</p>
<p>But I don’t really understand the difference between JV and DivIII.</p>
<p>NCAA Div III schools offer what is most commonly thought of as college sports. These are programs offered by most LACs and student athletes do not receive athletic scholarships.</p>
<p>NCAA Div I-A schools are top-tier athletic programs from which professional athletes are often recruited. Notre Dame football and Louisville basketball, for example, are Div I-A sports programs. Div I programs have a formal recuiting process (letters of intent, etc.) and offer athletic scholarships.</p>
<p>JV or junior varsity is independent of the school’s NCAA classification and refers to the second level of temas (those below or behind varisty). Unlike a high school which may offer sports at a variety of levels - - varsity (the top or “real” team), jv (second level), and thirds - - many colleges field only one “officiall” team (the varsity team) per sport. The college may, however, offer sports at the intramural/club level, which like jv, is less competitive than varsity.</p>
<p>[NCAA</a> School and Conference Athletic Web Sites](<a href=“http://www.ncaa.org/conferences/links.html]NCAA”>http://www.ncaa.org/conferences/links.html)</p>
<p>That link will take you to a list of DIII colleges. From there, you’ll have to visit the college web sites to do further research, but you should be able to make a list of colleges that are in your region, and then start sorting for your sport, and then start sorting for your other criteria. That’s where we started when my D was looking…</p>
<p>I have a little experience with college soccer. Oldest D plays for a LAC/DIII soccer powerhouse. Some years they have JV and some they don’t. It all depends on the numbers and who comes in that wants to play that haven’t been recruited. It’s hard to keep young women happy if they are not playing and putting in the long practice hours.</p>
<p>NYC:</p>
<p>I’ll echo what NorthMinnesota said. My daughter played JV soccer last year at a school in the same conference as Macalester. I’d say about half the schools in the conference fielded JV teams. There are no references to the JV teams on the websites, and there’s no way to find out if, in a particular year, a school will field a JV team without contacting the coach.</p>
<p>If I were looking for a school likely to field a team, I’d look for larger DIII schools with “sporty” reputations–the kind of schools where a significant number of girls are likely to want to play.</p>
<p>nyc, jude’s link will help a lot. You can get an idea, from checking out each school’s coaching staff online (before you even start asking questions), of whether a JV team is likely. Staff of three = highly likely that there’s no jv team. </p>
<p>Still, for any school that fits the other criteria you and your D have set up, ask, ask, ask. There is such a huge range in DIII - schools (NESCAC, Patriot) that are terrifically competitive, schools that are very competitive but a little more variable (Centennial, e.g.), and so on. There are schools in DIII that cut ruthlessly, and schools that carry a big roster of girls, in effect pulling an A team and a B team, without a formal JV program. Talk to the coaches and find out what the situation is at the schools your D is interested in - there isn’t really any shortcut, alas. </p>
<p>Good luck in your search.</p>