A junior soccer player with a 3.7 GPA gets advice on ID camps: attend mass camps like Masters, Future 500, or Elite Soccer Camp in freshman and sophomore years, then switch to individual team invitations junior and senior year. Coaches may ask you to their camps after seeing you at mass events, which signals interest.
I'm a junior with a 3.7 GPA. I play MLS Next 2. Which ID camp should I go to? This does depend on your level, of course, and what your parents want from you. But shortly, I would say Masters ID camp can be really good. Future 500 could be really good. Elite Soccer Camp hosted by Occidental in the Los Angeles area is really good. And 60 ID camp's really good. Harvard Clinic, PPA 300, PPA 200, those are also very good. Elite Soccer Camp 200 and 300 are also good. Now these are mass ID camps. There's another one called Top Academic that's on the East Coast. These are great camps to go to in a mass way. If you're a junior, I'd recommend going to one or two of these. But you need to spend your attention on what we call genuine invitations from individual ID camps as a junior. So freshman, 8th grade, freshman, sophomore year are for mass ID camps. Junior, senior year are for individual ID camps. The reason is if you go to a mass ID camp as a junior, which some of you may do, the coach is gonna say, that was really great, it was great to see you. Could you please come to my individual ID camp? You're gonna be like, wow, that's really annoying. I just spent all this money, now they want me to come to their camp again. But that is gonna happen, I guarantee it. Now the good news about that is technically that means they really like you and they want to see you again. And that is a really good thing. They could very well say, I don't need to see you again. You know, it's not— of course they want money for camps, but these coaches get plenty of kids coming to their camps. What they do want is they want good players at their camps because they need to recruit you somehow and they want to see you at the camps. If you comment the word quiz, I will be able to send you a quiz that might help you decide which camps are right for you. Otherwise, if you want a more custom tool, give me a call. Links in the bio, and we can talk soon.
