A guide for high school soccer players on recruiting: start with Division III programs as a safe baseline while building coach relationships, prioritize academics and your intended major when choosing schools, and search by region where you'd actually want to live.
When you're picking a list of schools, obviously your major has to come into play first and foremost because academics come first. But the other thing is your level, like what level you think you can play. The safe and smartest thing to do is start with Division III schools. If you have no idea, if you've never heard of any Division III schools, then what you can do is go online and look up Division III schools and start by region. Just go where would you like to live. You can skip that part if you want to, but if later you say to me, hey, I've had no phone calls with any schools, I have no offers, I'm a junior, then I'll be like, who did you email? And you'll say Division I, Division II schools only. I'll go, well, that's a problem because if they responded to you, then good for you. If they did not respond to you, now you're stuck. Now you're gonna have to go back to Division III and then you have to put Division I, Division II hold if you want to play college soccer. So that's why I strongly recommend that you start with Division III schools and then work work your way up because now you have a base and quote-unquote a backup. On top of the fact you need to get comfortable talking to coaches, you think you want to play D1, D2, but maybe you don't know. And Division III schools are really good with great educations, and they're really good. People take their doctorate there. Fantastic. If you have Division III schools on your list, now it's time to send those emails. If you're not sure what to say, comment "call" and we schedule a call with you and your
