by George » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:00 am
The 3 UOP ICE teams, plus the LP devo program, *are* the national development team.
UOP sliders avg 3 runs per practice. My knowledge of LP devo is limited to Jay Beckner's blog (which says their program has around 12 guys and 6 women). UOP isn't as structured as LP--they don't have fancy OTC housing and facilities, none of which would be worth the $$$ in my case anyway.
After completing several trouble-free runs at school, at the earliest, you may ask for a devo invitation and see if they say yes. LP sounds similar to UOP in that regard but they apparently want you to jump through many more hoops (4-item test, wait to be *invited* even to their school or push track, etc) before they extend a devo invitation.