@AsleepAtTheWheel, those statistics were in the very first handout my son received from his high school athletic department when he signed up as interested in football while in 8th grade. The very clear message was don’t focus on the couple dozen seniors at the signing day ceremony, because the odds are way against you. Play your sport because you want to, not because you (or your parents) think it is a golden ticket to college. I liked it so much I gave the handout to all my baseball parents and my daughter’s JO coach. Much to the JO coach’s credit, she passed it around with a note saying that while her club had a fair degree of success in matching girls with colleges, nothing was ever guaranteed. Plenty of travel and club coaches I have known over the years would never disseminate statistics like that, because they keep the lights on with families who are chasing the brass ring.
@bluewater2015, agree on all points. My daughter played JO for awhile, although I doubt that any of us ever thought she would play in college. She just liked the sport and we could afford it. As she got older and the time committment/costs got higher, she phased out and began spending my money on other things, lol. She still keeps in touch with many of the girls from her old club, and interestingly one maybe two of them will be D1 scholarship players on a team of maybe 13-15. So the numbers are probably pretty close.