College coaches rarely watch girls' NPL games, limiting exposure for female players. NPL and DPL typically lead to Division III, occasionally Division II, but Division I is out of reach. Lila got a $100,000 Division III scholarship through DPL with strong commitment.
Is NPL good enough to play college soccer on the boys or the girls side? I will admit to you, I had a college coach on my podcast and I said to them, do you ever go to girls NPL games? And they didn't even know that NPL had girls. So there is a big limited exposure for girls at the NPL level. You can pretty much primarily only aim for Division III if you want to be realistic. For boys, it is basically the same, but there are more opportunities at the Division II level as well. And for girls, there definitely can still be opportunity at the Division II level. DPL, which is kind of the equivalent to NPL for the girls, can get you to Division III, maybe Division II, but Division I is typically out of the question. Now, we had one girl ourselves, the amazing Lila, was able to play college soccer from DPL, and she got $100,000. So you can definitely get a lot of money from Division III and still play college soccer from DPL, but her and her parents and I worked really hard to get to that point, so you have to be very committed. If you would like a list of the best teams in your state, comment the word state and I can send you that list.
