Colorado Sparkler update!

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Magic 18u White [Dave Day] is at it again, after winning the 16u Bracket last year [possibly the only Midwest team to ever win it] are 4-0 and Number 1 seed at 18u this year, with a mostly 16u team! GREAT Job Ladies! This will be an unbelievable task at hand. The organization is proud of ALL of you!

 

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latest update

6-0 last 4 games have won 25-0! 3 wins over top California teams. Keep it up Ladies!

 

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6-0 last 4 games have won 25-0! 3 wins over top California teams. Keep it up Ladies!

nice work

 

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Good Job Magic Keep it up.

 

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SUPER --Tell us some more about this team --what area or HS does the kids come from ? good to see there are more ohio teams capable of kicking booty other than the obvious teams we all hear alot about. MD

 

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This team is from Northwest Ohio.

 

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What is your opinion of the current SGS Magic 16u team?

 

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I personally have never seen the SGS Magic team play. The best 16u teams in the Toledo area IMO.

Buckeye Heat Toledo 16u
Irish- Thompson
Wizards Gold
Wizards Elite.

 

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Any word on how they finished up????

 

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The Magic finished 7th out of 127 teams. Also congratulations to the Lasers Aqua team that stepped up and played "Gold" at the tournament. They had an awesome tournament fighting their way back through the the "Gold" consolation bracket to finish 9th.

As far as I know the Magic 18s and the Laser Aqua team are the only Ohio teams that participated this year. Congrats to both teams on great performances.

You can see the official tournament results at:

http://www.triplecrownsports.com/event_results2.asp?tournyid=3154

 

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The Magic finished 7th out of 127 teams. Also congratulations to the Lasers Aqua team that stepped up and played "Gold" at the tournament. They had an awesome tournament fighting their way back through the the "Gold" consolation bracket to finish 9th.

As far as I know the Magic 18s and the Laser Aqua team are the only Ohio teams that participated this year. Congrats to both teams on great performances.

Nice job ladies and Coach Day....looking forword to Sat....
BTW take it easy on us...lol...lol...lol

 

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We are VERY proud of 18u Magic White, what an accomplishment, and proves talent from this area does stack up against the best. This is everything we envisioned when we hired coach Day, great job Dave!

16u Magic team has done ok this year, but I'll guarantee they will be a power next year as they have a GREAT staff in Coach Snyder, Coach Galownia and Coach Jess. Coach Snyder not only knows the game, he makes it fun, and pushed the kids to get better. A true "teaching coach" If you want to experience top instruction, have a blast and get the inside view on what it takes to play at the Collegiate level, Coach Snyder is the guy for you.

 

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What is the difference between 18U open and 18U gold?

 

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This was the first year that the Sparkler event included a "Gold" division. As it was described in the Sparkler marketing, it was an attempt to bring in "Gold" teams to the event in order to draw even more college coaches.

From what I saw (although the quality of play was good) I would not have necessarily classified all of the teams in the "Gold" division as "Gold" teams. My take on it was that it hurt the quality of teams in what used to be the "18U division" before it was divided into two divisions this year. I dont think that it drew a whole lot of "Gold" teams - I do think that it may have taken some of the teams that would have been in the top half of the singular division in past years.

Just my opinion for whatever that may be worth.

 

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"Gold"- Means that the team if labled a 18u gold team has players on it young enough to play 18u however played a season of college ball. Not all players may have played college. Most team have a mixture of 18u and college players.

 

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BDD:

Are you talking about ASA Gold and/or the Sparkler's Gold division? Because ASA Gold has nothing to do with whether any young woman has played college ball and as described by Magic16, the Sparkler's Gold division was intended to draw college coaches, so I doubt it was restricted to teams having some players that had already played a season of college ball.

 

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Very generally speaking, the Gold division had better teams, but there may not be a single team in the Sparkler Gold that will qualify for the Gold Nationals. I'm not sure adding a Gold division was an improvement, but it probably didn't hurt, either.

Sparkler does have some very good teams, but the difference between the quality there and at Fireworks is noticeable. If you took the top 10% of the teams at Sparkler and put them at Fireworks and the bottom 10% at Fireworks and put them at Sparkler, then there would be a complete divide between the two tournaments. Sparkler does run the best show, however. They really do things up nicely at their main park. As a Div. III coach, I can find plenty of players at either tournament and I run back and forth between the two, not to mention Boulder/Louisville.

 

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BDD:

Are you talking about ASA Gold and/or the Sparkler's Gold division? Because ASA Gold has nothing to do with whether any young woman has played college ball and as described by Magic16, the Sparkler's Gold division was intended to draw college coaches, so I doubt it was restricted to teams having some players that had already played a season of college ball.

Well my experiences are that when ever we have played a 18u Gold team they had girls on their roster that completed one year of College. That is not to say that any team that wants to play at that level cant. That is how I had it explained to me and based off my experience.

What is the definition of ASA18uGold?

 

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Joe

I would agree - I am not sure any of the teams playing in the Gold division were of the caliber of the types of teams that I have seen that have played at the Gold Nationals. I would also agree that the Gold division may not have been an improvement. Not only do I believe that it diluted the talent in both divisions but it difinitely impacted the attendance of college coaches at the 16U and the 18U "open" levels as well as the All-Star games. Last year the majority of the coaches that I saw were at the various all-star games - where as it appeared this year they spent much more time at the gold games.

BDD - There is no "defeinition" of ASA 18 Gold. It is a level play which must be declared by a team in order to qualify and participate in the the ASA 18U Gold Nationals. It is not determined by any given # of college players. As a matter of fact I have seen several "Gold" teams that consist of all 16U eligible players. Once a team declares itself "Gold" it is not eligible to particpate at any other level (ie. ASA/USA 18U National level) for the remainder of the year.

Again, the ASA "Gold" level has nothing to do with the Gold level at the Sparkler. It was a division that was added to draw teams that would normally participate at that level of play but was not limited to those teams that intend to play ASA Gold. Hope this helps.