The 2013 Boys class is about to enter the heaviest of seasons when it comes to their recruiting process. While some top players are already committed, a number will be looking to make their final decisions this spring and summer, and college coaches are vying for those prized commitments.

So it is an important time as we provide our first update of this class’s Players To Watch Top 100 national ranking. Many of the names have been ranked for a while, but new players continue to crack the list, as others drop off.  Through all of this we continue to look around the countryside for the best soccer talent in the land, class by class.

After a months-long layoff to reconfigure and examine the entire player pool, we resume the process with a final visit to the graduating seniors. Our rankings are made after an examination of national and regional honors among players in the top competitive leagues in the country, as well as selections to youth national teams and other top honors awarded across the nation. Further investigation includes the consulting of coaches at various levels throughout the country.

It should be noted that while a growing number of young men are choosing the professional option, they remain eligible for our Top 100 ranking through the time their high school class would have graduated.

After we complete our February updates of national 2013 rankings (2013 Girls are next week), the rankings will expand to four age groups, 2013 through 2016 (both genders), with the top 150 being selected for each. The work on these rankings has been going on for some time and will begin being released in March. Each of the top 150 lists will be updated quarterly. 

Regional lists will from this point be shorter reflections of the national list only, with minimal additional players added.

 

So we hope you enjoy the rankings and somehow manage to remember, it’s impossible to get complete agreement on so massive a task as to ranking all players in high school age groups nationwide. If you have a different opinion, you are certainly entitled, but please don’t think of this as life and death stuff – we don’t.

 

Click here to see the 2013 boys Top 100 Rankings.