National Elite Prep Showcase

NEPS formerly the Nolan Showcase has posted the schedule.

Day 1 Schedule - Thursday, January 12th

@ TCU 
1pm - Ursuline/Am. Heritage 
3pm - Coppell/Clear Lake 
5pm - Rosary/Fl Mound 
7pm - Grapevine/Aquinas 


@ Nolan 
3pm - Martin/Boyd 
5pm - Kingwood/Nolan 
7pm - Marcus/Murrieta 


@ Gateway #1 
3pm - Plano West/St. Stephen's 
5pm - Keller/Amarillo 
7pm - Lynch/Monterrey 


@ Gateway #2 
5pm - Palo Duro/Hockaday 
7pm - SA Central/Tyler Lee 


@ Gateway #3 
5pm - The Colony/Antonian 
7pm - Allen/Midland 


@ Dragon Stadium 
5pm - Carroll/Westlake 
7pm - Georgetown/Colleyville



Day 2 Schedule - Friday, January 13th

@ TCU 
8am - Georgetown/Midland
10am - Aquinas/Allen
12pm - Boyd/Kingwood
2pm - Plano West/Murrieta
6pm - Westlake/Nolan
8pm - Carroll/Rosary

@ Nolan 
8am - Plano West/Am. Heritage
10am - Nolan/Clearlake
12pm - Keller/Tyler Lee
2pm - St. Stephen's/Midland
4pm - Coppell/Aquinas
6pm - Grapevine/Kingwood
8pm - Am. Heritage/Murrieta

@ Gateway #1 
8am - St. Stephen's/Hockaday
10am - Martin/Westlake
2pm - Monterrey/The Colony
6pm - Clear Lake/Keller
8pm - Hockaday/Monterrey

@ Gateway #2 
8am - Fl. Mound/Amarillo
6pm - Tyler Lee/Palo Duro
8pm - SA Central/Lynch

@ Gateway #3 
8am - The Colony/Westlake
2pm - Fl. Mound/Lynch
4pm - Georgetown/Antonian
6pm - Ursuline/Martin

@ Dragon Stadium 
10am - Carroll/Palo Duro
12pm - Colleyville/SA Central
2pm - Rosary/Amarillo


Day 3 Schedule - Saturday, January 14th

@ TCU 
8am - Ursuline/Kingwood
10am - Am. Heritage/Boyd
12pm - Plano West/Amarillo
2pm - Ursuline/Marcus
4pm - Coppell/Allen

@ Nolan 
8am - Nolan/Murrieta
10am - St. Stephen's/Lynch
12pm - Aquinas/Rosary
2pm - Keller/Antonian
4pm - Boyd/Grapevine

@ Gateway #1 
8am - Marcus/Midland
10am - Martin/Westlake
12pm - Hockaday/Tyler Lee 

@ Gateway #2 
8am - Monterrey/Antonian
10am - Allen/Colleyville
12pm - Georgetown/Palo Duro

@ Dragon Stadium 
8am - Grapevine/Coppell
10am - The Colony/SA Central
12pm - Carroll/Clear Lake
4pm - Colleyville/Fl/ Mound

Lots of great match-ups....let's hope for some unseasonably warm weather.

socrocks wrote:Lots of great match-ups....let's hope for some unseasonably warm weather.

Like two years ago?

Does anyone know which set of Gsteway Park fields will be used? From the Gateway Park map, there are four sets of soccer fields. Do all of the soccer fields have lights? One set of field are listed as competitive fields and these are located on the western side of the park near Beach Street. Those would be my first guess, but does anyone know which set of field will be used?

Thanks

Flatback4 wrote:Does anyone know which set of Gsteway Park fields will be used? From the Gateway Park map, there are four sets of soccer fields. Do all of the soccer fields have lights? One set of field are listed as competitive fields and these are located on the western side of the park near Beach Street. Those would be my first guess, but does anyone know which set of field will be used?

Thanks

From Beach Street, pass the first main entrance. You will go to the first light (at a gas station) and take a right. If there is any sign there indicating this is the way to the soccer fields, I've never seen. Once you go right, you will be on a small, "rurally" looking road in an iffy neighborhood. Keep going and on the right is another main entrance to Gateway. It is slighly set back and can pass if you are going too fast. Pass the front fields that will be on the left. Follow the road all the way around, veering right. You will then find a fairly nice parking lot, well lit turf fields. The turf soccer fields are confusing and hard to find the first time out there.

Thanks MaggieMaggie

My guess is that the iffy street is East 1st Street.

For a land mark are the turf fiels surronded by the disc golf course or the sofftball fields?

Thanks again

Flatback4 wrote:Thanks MaggieMaggie

My guess is that the iffy street is East 1st Street.

For a land mark are the turf fiels surronded by the disc golf course or the sofftball fields?

Thanks again

The turf fields are kind of off by themselves in a fenced in area. There is a large shaded canopy area at the entrance to the fenced area. I think the softball fields are behind a little levee that is at one end of the soccer parking lot. You don't really see them from the turf soccer fields and the parking lots do not connect. We recently played a make up game at Gateway against Nolan and many parents who had never been there before were late trying to find the complex. Give yourself some extra time, just in case.

Poor Palo Duro. Long way to come to be treated so badly.

Uncle Numanga wrote:Poor Palo Duro. Long way to come to be treated so badly.

Really. Does anyone know how teams are invited to this? I am assuming past performance/reputation, but I haven't tried to dig into it.

Uncle Numanga wrote:Poor Palo Duro. Long way to come to be treated so badly.

Ouch!!! No kidding.

http://espn.go.com/blog/high-school/girls-soccer/post/_/id/1181/national-elite-prep-showcase-scoreboard

Uncle Numanga wrote:Poor Palo Duro. Long way to come to be treated so badly.

No reason for those kinds of scores.

Lefty wrote:

Uncle Numanga wrote:Poor Palo Duro. Long way to come to be treated so badly.

Typical behavior to be expected from the coach involved.

I think one of the Hockaday girls was hurt tonight? Someone said a fractured collar bone and a broken arm? Hope this is not true.

Well, just don't know what team is going to show up? Played 2 games extremely well, and the game against Flower Mound ... well pooh. Decisive win by FM. Late game last night and by the time everyone home and ready to sleep, way too late and morning way too soon. Just dropped DD at school for a cold school bus ride out to the Provinces. Getting on some warmer gear, drinking morning coffee, heading out soon too.

JeffM wrote:

Uncle Numanga wrote:Poor Palo Duro. Long way to come to be treated so badly.

Really. Does anyone know how teams are invited to this? I am assuming past performance/reputation, but I haven't tried to dig into it.

I think they meant to invite their basketball team. Never known PD to have a strong soccer program.

JeffM wrote:

Uncle Numanga wrote:Poor Palo Duro. Long way to come to be treated so badly.

Really. Does anyone know how teams are invited to this? I am assuming past performance/reputation, but I haven't tried to dig into it.

Jeff, I am not sure but BL has been playing in this tournament a long time. I think some teams are invited but I think if a team wants to participate, they can apply. JATO Athletics. I know your team is certainly competative enough. They have 3 brackets too. Some very good local coaches attending, though most will probably only watch teams playing at TCU. Everyone can have an off game. Saw Ursuline score on themselves last night. Great team but they put on their boots one foot at a time too.

Uncle Numanga wrote:Poor Palo Duro. Long way to come to be treated so badly.

Those results were harsh.

But what's the proper etiquette for scoring goals in a showcase tournament? A coach shouldn't try to run up a score but if you force your kids to stop scoring goals in a showcase tournament, where scouts should be there watching the game, are you really hurting your kids by making them stop? I know there are other ways to show skill during a game but nothing turns heads faster than a ball in the back of a net. Let's say you have a girl that wants a scholarship but hasn't gotten interest yet. Shouldn't you let her score 6 goals while recruiters are watching if she has that ability?

What's the correct etiquette for these coaches?

#5 and #9 on Southlake team are awesome. What club team are they on?

MaggieMaggie wrote:Well, just don't know what team is going to show up? Played 2 games extremely well, and the game against Flower Mound ... well pooh. Decisive win by FM. Late game last night and by the time everyone home and ready to sleep, way too late and morning way too soon. Just dropped DD at school for a cold school bus ride out to the Provinces. Getting on some warmer gear, drinking morning coffee, heading out soon too.

Lynch played well today. 1-0 win over St. Stephens. Woot Woot.

MaggieMaggie wrote:

JeffM wrote:

Uncle Numanga wrote:Poor Palo Duro. Long way to come to be treated so badly.

Really. Does anyone know how teams are invited to this? I am assuming past performance/reputation, but I haven't tried to dig into it.

Jeff, I am not sure but BL has been playing in this tournament a long time. I think some teams are invited but I think if a team wants to participate, they can apply. JATO Athletics. I know your team is certainly competative enough. They have 3 brackets too. Some very good local coaches attending, though most will probably only watch teams playing at TCU. Everyone can have an off game. Saw Ursuline score on themselves last night. Great team but they put on their boots one foot at a time too.

Are you sure you were watching the same game, they didnt score on themselves they got scored on. Might want to watch the game closer.

SportsMobility.net is up and running with all of the scores plus a calculated standings for this showcase.

Look under Results and schedules

All of the 8-5A schedule is in and I've started on the 7-5A schedule.

imabee wrote:#5 and #9 on Southlake team are awesome. What club team are they on?

Texans 95 and 94 respectively.

bigtex75081 wrote:

Uncle Numanga wrote:Poor Palo Duro. Long way to come to be treated so badly.

Those results were harsh.

But what's the proper etiquette for scoring goals in a showcase tournament? A coach shouldn't try to run up a score but if you force your kids to stop scoring goals in a showcase tournament, where scouts should be there watching the game, are you really hurting your kids by making them stop? I know there are other ways to show skill during a game but nothing turns heads faster than a ball in the back of a net. Let's say you have a girl that wants a scholarship but hasn't gotten interest yet. Shouldn't you let her score 6 goals while recruiters are watching if she has that ability?

What's the correct etiquette for these coaches?

In the Palo Duro game against Carroll, the majority of the starters played the first ten minutes, then didn't play the rest of the game.

bigtex75081 wrote:

Uncle Numanga wrote:Poor Palo Duro. Long way to come to be treated so badly.

Those results were harsh.

But what's the proper etiquette for scoring goals in a showcase tournament? A coach shouldn't try to run up a score but if you force your kids to stop scoring goals in a showcase tournament, where scouts should be there watching the game, are you really hurting your kids by making them stop? I know there are other ways to show skill during a game but nothing turns heads faster than a ball in the back of a net. Let's say you have a girl that wants a scholarship but hasn't gotten interest yet. Shouldn't you let her score 6 goals while recruiters are watching if she has that ability?What's the correct etiquette for these coaches?

No college coach is going to be impressed with six goals on what must be the equivelant of an open net. That is just unfortunate to be in a showcase against a team so mismatched. Most scouts will just walk away because there is no way to judge a player's quality unless there are one or two stars on the losing team that they are interesed in.

National Elite Prep Showcase


1) Carrol HS
2) Marcus HS
3) Keller HS
4) Boyd HS
5) Ursuline Academy
6) Flower Mound HS
7) Bishop Lynch
Hockaday
9) Plano West HS
10) Coppell HS
11) Nolan
12) The Colony
13) Rosary
14) St. Thomas Aquinas
15) Westlake HS
16) Georgetown
17) Monterrey
18) San Angelo Central
19) Allen HS
20) St. Stephens
21) Kingswood
22) Tyler Lee
23) American Heritage-Delray
24) Grapevine HS
25) Colleyville Heritage
26) Midland
27) Clear Lake
28) Arlington Martin
29) Antonian
30) Palo Duro
31) Murrieta Valley
32) Amarillo

my2cents wrote:

bigtex75081 wrote:

Uncle Numanga wrote:Poor Palo Duro. Long way to come to be treated so badly.

Those results were harsh.

But what's the proper etiquette for scoring goals in a showcase tournament? A coach shouldn't try to run up a score but if you force your kids to stop scoring goals in a showcase tournament, where scouts should be there watching the game, are you really hurting your kids by making them stop? I know there are other ways to show skill during a game but nothing turns heads faster than a ball in the back of a net. Let's say you have a girl that wants a scholarship but hasn't gotten interest yet. Shouldn't you let her score 6 goals while recruiters are watching if she has that ability?What's the correct etiquette for these coaches?

No college coach is going to be impressed with six goals on what must be the equivelant of an open net. That is just unfortunate to be in a showcase against a team so mismatched. Most scouts will just walk away because there is no way to judge a player's quality unless there are one or two stars on the losing team that they are interesed in.

I don't know if it is true but I heard Palo Duro was a late add when somebody else dropped out. That might explain why they ended up playing against some of the better competition.

I agree, it would not benefit anybody for one person to score six goals. In a game like that, the college coach would have already left to another field I would think. I know the Coppell coach came to the Carroll/Palo Duro game and left about 5 minutes into it. He was thinking Palo Duro was a CA team but soon found out otherwise.