A college soccer recruiting consultant shows how a high school player got University of Portland's attention with a personalized email. The coach replied that they urgently need a striker. The player leveraged MLS Next credentials and gap-year status to move forward.
How to get recruited by Portland if you want to play Division 1 college soccer. So we have a female player who committed to Portland, so I have some experience in this. This is particularly with a male player, and I'm going to show you the email that we sent to them, which we have sent to a number of other people. Dear coach, I'm saying you see many emails, I'm working on coming to your camp. May I confirm— but prior to this email, we had said some genuine aspects of their style of play and people we knew on the team. So this was a follow-up email because we hadn't heard from them in a minute, but but we did prior to this send some genuine aspects. So in this part, the coach responds with this: we're definitely still looking to sign a striker. Okay, this was last year. This is a top priority for us. All right, so if you saw the— my other video where I talk about UCLA saying, hey, you're going to get to see us, as well as other players that was interested, because they still responded, but not like this. This is, we need a striker. Our strikers are graduating. The ones coming in are going to be good, but we want a striker. So this is like amazing. It would be great if you could come to camp and train in our environment. Let me know if you have any other questions. So look, are they saying you're the level? But again, Portland, you said they don't respond to you unless they're semi-interested. So because of his subject line, they're like, hey, this kid seems like he's the part. He's a big kid, he's got good feet. Plus this particular coach has other references from his MLS Next team saying he's Division 1 level, at a high level. and we have references in his other emails from big schools saying, hey, we think you're the level. This particular student has some other complicated stuff because he's on a gap year, but the point is, you know, he's getting responses from the big, big schools. So I emailed him back, and I was saying, you did your part, Portland's a camp. So I responded to my student because that's what I do with my students. I have 24/7 access, so we're emailing back and forth. And I said, look, you did your part. Now it's up to us. Do you want to go to the camp? Should we send more video before the camp? We've gotten the connection. Now it's about going to camp and hopefully going to a showcase where he will be and come to watch us. And that's how you get recruited by those top-level schools. If you want more help playing college soccer, give me a ring. Links in the bio. Talk to you soon.
