A girls soccer coach advises freshmen on picking ID camps. Attend 2-3 Massachusetts camps yearly, skip Division I unless you're athletically advanced, and focus on Division III camps instead: fewer players, better academics, and coaches who recruit on performance, not club name.
What college ID camp should you go to if you're a girls soccer player who is a freshman? First of all, as a girls soccer player, remember that as a freshman you're not really a freshman, you're actually a sophomore. So as a pretend sophomore girls soccer player, you should be going to Mass ID camps. I would recommend 2 to 3 a year depending on what you like. If you're not playing ECNL or GA, going to Division 1 camp as a freshman, quote-unquote sophomore, could still be a great idea in order to start to gain their interest. But if you're not the level as that age, and college coaches know, you're not going to garner the interest of those Division I schools. So I would really recommend going to top academic Division III camps instead. However, you can go to one Division I camp to get you used to what a camp is like, but also so that way you could have the coach know your name. But don't expect to be recruited if you're still, say, premature for your age athletically. What you want to do instead is go to the DIII camps because, one, less girls go to those camps, so there's a lot of opportunity there. Two, top academic Division III schools are really competitive. And three, College coaches don't really recruit from Division I ID camps unless they really know you from your club team. In addition, Division III schools, on the other hand, don't care as much about your club team. If you're really good at the camp, they will want you. If you'd like to know a list of camps for you based off of your age as a girl, comment the word quiz and I will send you a quiz that will ask you a series of questions to help you figure out which ID camps you should go to. If you want more help playing college soccer, click the link in the bio and we can schedule a call with you and your parents.
