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pretty much perfect when college coaches ask you those questions on the call. Saying your weakness is, I wanna work on making faster decisions, is a great one. Now if you say, my weakness is my speed, that's a bad idea, 'cause college coaches don't wanna hear that you don't have speed. So I would use decision-making when they ask you what your weakness is. Now, these are the questions they've proposed to you. What are your strengths and weaknesses? How is the recruiting process going? Tell me about school, tell me about your schedule, tell me where you're from. If you have an elevator pitch, which with our students we do practice, you wanna be mindful on just saying it unless they ask you, but you could be honest and go, coach, I really am excited to talk to you today. I've been working really hard. I train twice a day and I travel a lot and I'm just excited to talk to you today. And if they say, hey, tell me more, then you could go into your personal story. But don't just jump into, this is why I think I'm a good fit for your team. Let them lead the conversation. Okay, now my favorite part of phone calls is what you ask them. Okay, this is really how I got my Fulbright scholarship and how students in my experience get the offers. And of everything I've talked to you guys about, this is my favorite thing to talk about. The emails are awesome, the videos are good to fix. Look, I'm a soccer junkie. I played pro for 10 years. I played college soccer. I played all growing up, so of course I love the video stuff and the email templates and things, but this is the human part that's really where you get your Scholarships, in my opinion, in addition to being a good player. So first of all, you want personal things. So ask about them. Why do they like X school? How did you get into coaching? What position did you play? Ask about them, okay? They'll be like, wow, this is an adult. So that's number one. Number two, when the next questions are, I want it to be about the team. So you wanna be like, you know, what formation does your team normally play? I looked it up already. It looks like a 4-5-1. Could you tell me a little bit more about that? You could say, if you were to describe your system of play, how would you describe it? Is there a professional soccer team that you model after? Because then I can go study them during the year and get to know you better. Now, a lot of you are like, oh my gosh, this is so much work for one team and there's hundreds of teams. I don't want you to do this for every single team that has interest in you. You need to get the interest first, earn the right to play college soccer, then once you've got the interest, you're going to get to pick which schools you wanna spend this much time on. And that's really important. Okay, so now you've asked them, et cetera. Now, the next question can be about academics. You can say, you know, how is it that the students balance school and sport? You know, what do you propose with your students? The reason I really do like this as a potential for you is because college coaches want to know that you care about school. Which is why they ask about your GPA. Because if you don't do well in school, you won't be able to play for the team, right? There's rules. Second, coaches, there's like a point system that coaches are judged on by the admissions based on how many of their students graduate as well as what GPAs they get and how many get academic honors. So if you say to them, you know, how do most players balance school and sport? And they'll say, oh, it's really important about time management, da da da da da. But asking about that is important. And they'll also probably tell you, look, every single week we check in with our students make sure that their grades are going well. He could say, hey, do you have a— are you not good at time management? You go, hi coach, no, I, you know, I'm playing at these clubs, I have X grades, I was only asking because I find academics really important, and as I'm picking my schools, I want to find a school that also finds academics important, and I'm really glad to hear that you have a plan in place for your students. You know, these coaches don't expect you to know anything. So it's a good question to ask. Now, when it comes to scholarships, right, like how much scholarship am I getting? That's like a second, third phone call. That's not gonna happen on the first one. We'll get into negotiating scholarships in a minute, in the next, like a different, a different, uh, video here, a different podcast rather. But these are the questions I want you to ask during this process. I hope this was really helpful. If you have any questions, please please give me a call. Links in the bio, and I look forward to helping you through your college soccer journey. Talk soon.