Recruiting Tips & Blog

Soccer ID Camps have become incredibly popular as they allow players to play in front of many college coaches at once. ID Camps allow players to make lasting connections with coaches that will assist in the journey to a college roster. With so many new camps out there it can be difficult evaluating which to spend your valuable time and money on. Read below to find out how to evaluate and compare camps. 1. How many coaches does the camp have? It comes down to simple math – the more coaches there are, the greater variety of coaches there are, the greater your odds of forming solid connections with coaches and being identified.

Email is going to be an important communication tool with college coaches during the college recruiting process. Thinking strategically about how to email soccer coaches can be the difference between a successful recruiting conversation and a lack of response. Here are 6 things to keep in mind when emailing college coaches. 1. Don’t make the email all about you If you want to stand out when you email soccer coaches, don’t send a long list of your accolades and achievements, that is what your resume is for. Instead, tell the soccer coach about his or her school and program! Send a personalized email that makes it clear to the coach that you have researched the college and are familiar with both the team and the academic programs.

The successful navigation of the complex and sometimes stressful college soccer recruiting process requires a number of key resources allowing you to easily communicate your value to college coaches. In addition to a college recruiting highlight video, a comprehensive student-athlete college soccer resume will prove vital in illustrating to coaches your accomplishments, ability and likelihood of success in their program. This college soccer resume should be written and organized to communicate both your athletic ability and academic fit within a certain college program. This article will explain the 4 key steps in creating a comprehensive, yet appealing, college soccer resume for your communications with college coaches during the soccer recruiting and application process.

Using a high quality email template to send college soccer coach emails is important because it helps you stand out in the soccer coaches inbox. Coaches receive thousands of emails every year and have limited time to devote to opening and replying. College soccer coaches will go through their inbox and quickly determine which emails are worth their time. Impersonal emails and messages from often get deleted, as do unprofessional, poorly crafted soccer coach emails. When you are writing soccer coach emails, write an email that you would like to receive yourself. If you don’t put any time into writing your email, don’t expect a college coach to put any time into reading it.

There is no way around it, college is expensive. In fact, when it comes to deciding which colleges to attend – financial considerations are often a family’s primary determining factor. There are two main ways of offsetting the significant costs associated with attending a college or university: need-based financial aid and merit-based aid. Merit-based aid most commonly consists of academic or athletic scholarships, or some combination of the two. Athletic scholarships are non-guaranteed, financial aid agreements between a college and an athlete. These scholarships are awarded to athletes based on a coach’s perception of their athletic ability. SIDE-NOTE: The best way for you to put your ability on display for coaches is to play in front of them at the event with the largest and best collection of college soccer coaches (at least 75 each year): Future 500 ID Camps. 

The process of getting identified by college soccer coaches is difficult. Future 500 ID Camps are the 2020 soccer camps that you will want to consider if you want to play in front of the largest and best collection of soccer coaches in 2020. Future 500 boys soccer camps 2020 and girls soccer camps 2020 feature a very carefully crafted mix of D1, D2 and D3 coaches from a variety of colleges – creating the best 2020 soccer camp exposure opportunity for players of all levels. The 2020 soccer camp features which make Future 500 an absolute necessity are listed below.