<p>I know NMH has two players on the U16 bolts. The coach has a connection. One of the players belongs there; one does not. I am just saying it will be incredibly difficult to maintain your schoolwork. Our situation was different because it involved so much more travel. Had my son taken the coach up on the Bolts offer, I guess he could have gone full time. He wanted to remain loyal to a club and coaches that have been so good to him. Also, if these players are not making the three (at least two) practices per week fairly regularly (and I doubt they are…I will have to ask) and US Soccer catches wind of it, they (the Bolts) will not longer be allowed to be a part of Academy. </p>
<p>NMH’s Ivy track record and connection is with basketball, not soccer, but it is a possibility and they have sent two players to the Ivies in the past seven years…Brown and Columbia, I believe. Seacoast has two public school kids going to Dartmouth this year alone. NMH’s connection for soccer is more with the DIII NESCAC schools.</p>
<p>The goal of academy was not to prevent kids from playing high school; it was to have less emphasis on games and more emphasis on development in a closed environment. Seacoast was one of the academy’s ten charter clubs and we attended a meeting given by the US national staff. They stated at that time that they were not against kids playing high school at all, however some clubs do not allow their players to play high school because of the bad habits it might promote. My son enjoys his high school team; I don’t think it necessarily promotes bad habits, but it is hard to maintain a technical style when so many on the team, and maybe even the coaches, don’t understand or promote that style. I’m sure you know what I mean.</p>
<p>The 6-0 game score…you are correct. It was vs BW Gottschee. I thought you were saying it was vs the Bolts. Out of 9 teams, Bolts finished 7th and Seacoast finished 8th. Gottschee was 2nd; a very strong team.</p>