Female soccer players need to start recruiting in 8th grade, not later. Eighty percent of D1 scholarships go out junior year. Seventy-seven percent of college players come from ECNL, and coaches notice players through repeated ID camp appearances, not one-off showcases.
3 things you need to know if you are a female soccer player who wants to play college soccer. Number 1, if you are in 8th grade, you're actually in 9th grade. If you're in 9th grade, you're actually in 10th grade. And if you're 11th grade, you're really a senior. 80% of girls get their offers during junior year. So you have to start the recruiting process earlier than the boys do. Number 2, 77% of girls who play college soccer are playing ECNL. Now you may be good enough if you're playing GA, you may be good enough if you're playing ECNL RL, but you have to know where the statistics are. So if you're not playing ECNL, you have to do more work than an ECNL player might do. If you're playing ECNL, you have to know that you are competing with the best girls. So if you're not playing for the highest level ECNL team, you have to do more work than the super talented player who's getting picked for every single national team there is. Number 3 is it does not matter if you are better than the other girls at the ID camp. They're recruiting you at the ID camp. At many other ID camps, they're recruiting other girls and at other showcases. What matters is how much time you can get under exposure. We had a student who is now at Yale. They went to 5 ID camps and did not get noticed until the 4th one, in which case they invited them to a 5th and then they made an offer only on the ID camp. Never saw her at a showcase, but they had to go to 5 Yale ID camps and didn't get noticed for 3 of those. That's what it can take if you want to play college soccer at the Division I level and you are a girl. If you want more help playing college soccer, give me a call. Links in the bio. Bye.
