A coach outlines how a junior soccer player without offers can get recruited. Build a strong highlight video, attend ID camps, target Division III and II schools first, prioritize academics, and email coaches at your top choices. Only 5% of high school players go D3 or higher.
If you're just starting as a junior and you don't have a good video, that's number 1. And if you're not sure if you have a good video, then you have a bad video. So you need to make sure that you have a good video. So talk to your coach and make sure, like, say to them, is this a good video? And if they say, yeah, it's fine, then they probably did not look at the video. There is something you need to change about your video, guaranteed. So that's number 1. Number 2 is you need to go to ID camps. You don't have a choice now as a junior. You've waited so long that some of these coaches maybe don't know who you are. So you're going to have to focus on Division 3 and Division 2 first. You can always go back to aiming for Division 1, but you're going to have to focus on those first and be open-minded to what schools— because do you have any offers yet? Well, the reason I'm asking the question is because since you don't have any offers, college soccer is a privilege. 5% of players will play college soccer after high school. That's not very many given there's 800,000 registered high school soccer players. So right now you have to be open-minded if you want to play college soccer. Now, we don't want to sacrifice your education. Education always comes first. But if you want to go to a very high academic, top academic D3 school, they're going to be done recruiting in the next 6 to 7 months. Okay, I mentioned you have to go to ID camps and you got to fix your video, but The main piece is your emails. You gotta send quite a few emails out to your top schools genuinely. Then you're gonna have to send out a bunch of emails to backup schools. And then once you've done that first email, we gotta figure out exactly the game plan here. Comment call and we can schedule a call with you and your parents.
