disco
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It's both club and high school. In many cases, not all, but many, they go hand in hand. The high school coaches know who is playing on the top club teams for some sports, and they aren't even looking at the kids playing on the lesser teams. Meaning if you want to play varsity, you better be dedicated year round to the sport. I do know some kids this has happened to with soccer.Even if it were limited to pressure from club teams, why aren't parents telling the coaches to go pound sand and letting their kids play on what is deemed the lesser team? Youth sports is so far out of hand....
Now on the flip side, you hear stories (I don't know anyone personally on this one) where you have club or development program coaches telling kids to skip the high school season if they want to get a scholarship. I don't know how prevalent this really is, but you do have a handful of top hockey players going into the USHL etc.