Fab 50 -- any ever from foreign lands?

[Overlycheerful]

I think this is fairly easily dealt with. If a player is heavily recruited, like Pavan, she should be considered for the Fab50 list, regardless of country.

The coaches, who are consulted for these lists, would be aware of such players.

Or just call it the USA Fab50.

[Wolfgang]

I think the "Paula Gentil Question" is also veddy interesting.

[Nutter]

stanley10 said:

So "USAFAN" would like to see ALL the Fab 50 be Americans. How selfish. Canada has produced some top players over the years who have played in America and set records, become valuable players to the "American College Program" and the selection commitee have even made them "All Americans". --They are STILL doing it. USAFAN should come to Canada to one of the club tournaments and see the number of American college scouts who know there are plenty of stars here but the Canadian University and College programs just cannot compete with the USA. That is the main reason our Olympic Team struggles. Any players who have potential are quickly offered a whole lot more to go south, thus ending their career in Canada or putting it on hold for a few years. We enjoy coming to the USA and seeing the players from all countries, thus, the Fab 50 should include all countries..

Nice to see another fellow Canuck on the board.

While I agree that the FAB50 should include more than Americans, it is rather difficult to scout more than a handful of potentials here, more so because of geography and I guess "selfishness" (not sure if this is the right word) on the part of scouts who do not want to disclose the likes of Sarah Pavan et al. Heck! Even Stacey Gordon, who's been an AA since her Frosh year was not recruited at all. Ohio State lucked out when they decided to offer her a scholie and she turned out to be a gem.

Unless you have contacts outside of the US, you really don't know about the kids because you rarely see them compete in US Tournaments.

That said, when you do see kids like Stacey Gordon or Sarah Pavan come out of Canada (and Barbara Ifejika of Stanford before them) you do tend to take a closer look at the neighbours up north, but again, they do seem few and far between in comparison to the known entities like the Barbozas, etc.