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First, I assume you are referring to girls, not boys. I don't know any men's college coach who goes to HS games unless it is to watch a player he has already identified through club. Second, if you consider that there are probably 20 SC colleges with women's soccer, each recruiting a minimum (educated guess) of five ladies per year, I'd say four out of one hundred proves my point.



HD: You do realize you are debating two different points, right?

And once again just because you don't know of a player that was recruited at a HS game, doesn't mean it hasn't happened.



Girls soccer verbal commitments:
Clemson:
class of 2011:
3 from California
1 from Charlotte

South Carolina:
Class of 2011
1 from Canada
1 from NJ
1 from VA
1 from PA
class of 2012
1 from PA

There is not only not any recruits from SC but between the two schools only 1 even from region III. With these distant recruits, I'd guess a lot of time is spent by these coaches watching games outside of SC and adjoining states. I would assume the early recruits is where their scholarship money is going. I highly doubt they attend any high school games or few if any in state SC club level games. I'm not sure if USC coaches even attended SC club state cup. I suppose it is all dependent on the level of college play. If you want to play soccer in college, there is a place for everyone. There are college soccer teams in SC that are beaten by U15 premier SC club teams. So even if the SC player wants to go to college in state or nearby, depending on the school they want to attend to play soccer, he/she is competing nationally for those spots and coaches will want to see how they size up against players from across the nation. Therein requires the high travel and participation in things like ODP, regionals, ECNL for girls, academy for boys etc. In order to even be considered at division 1 "local" SC schools, coaches want to see the player in context of other players across the US. Now if divsion 1 college soccer or the travel experience isn't an interest of the player, then it probably doesn't make sense to spend the time and money for a team that plays in leagues or tournaments across the US. These teams will be expensive to belong to and with the cost of travel will likely become more expensive.