NSCAA rankings

I got really bored so I skimmed over 2008 fall high school soccer rankings to see where the best soccer high schools are...

I guess Ludlow, Mass is known for soccer...(that's home to the Western Mass Pioneers and Lady Pioneers...the W-League team that Mandy Schwartz, Kacey Richards, Courtney Maitland, Sam Kelley and Brie Gray played on)

Anyway the Ludlow, Mass boys high school team was ranked 17th at the end of the year.

Farmington, CT which is where Matt Sangeloty went, had the 8th best high school boys team.

St. Benedicts Prep, where Marco Zanfardino and Mike Pezza went finished 2008 as 24th in the country.

Germantown Academy, which is where Caroline Doty went...and played soccer... finished 2008 as the 21st ranked girls soccer team.

There is an incoming freshman on the women's soccer team who went to the 4th ranked 2008 high school girls soccer team. Unlike the others that I have mentioned she actually was on the team that earned that ranking.

The others I listed are just graduates of those schools.

Thought it was interesting. I love doing research on sports.

These rankings mean a little bit more to me because it's the final poll at the end of the season.

I saw the Division II pre-season polls and they were virtually useless and meaningless. The team's pre-season rankings were pretty much exactly the same from their final rankings from the year before.

Once again, rankings shouldn't mean anything to athletes. They are for marketers, fans and writers.