A soccer player who got a full-ride scholarship after attending 30 ID camps breaks down how to pick the right ones. Start with mass-attendance camps in 8th-10th grade, then switch to individual school camps as a junior. Always pair camp visits with on-campus tours to check academic fit before you apply.
How do you find the college ID camp soccer for you? ID camps are brutal to figure out, and I know it because I went to literally 30 of them in my high school recruiting process. And I went to a lot of them that were money grabs, and I went to a lot of them that were great. And ultimately, I played college soccer and got a full-ride scholarship that basically paid for all those camps because of an ID camp. So you have to go to ID camps. The question is, how do you pick the right ones? Here are 3 ways that I would pick my ID camp for you. Number 1 is do you have genuine interest from the school? And the best way to get genuine interest is writing emails and sending video. Number 2, decide if you wanna go to a mass ID camp with many schools or an individual one. If you're in 8th to 10th grade, go to a mass ID camp. If you are a junior, then you're gonna have to go to an individual ID camp, or a senior, the same. Now if you have a dream school as an 8th to 10th grader, then go to your dream school's individual camp. Same if you're a sophomore. As a junior, unless you have interest from your dream school, and I'm assuming your dream school's a little bit out of reach for you, then you cannot go to that camp any longer. You've kind of missed the boat, unless you are the level, in which case, go to the camp. Number 3, try and coincide the ID camp with a visit. Meaning, if you're gonna go all the way to a school to play soccer, you may as well go on a tour and see the academics and see what it's like. And better yet, that happens in the spring, in the fall. While there's the most ID camps in the summer, If you can coincide the ID camp with a visit, then you can cross it off your list of schools you would visit to even apply to academically. And you may decide, I love the school so much, I'm gonna apply academically. Or you may decide, even if the coach loves me, I'm never going to the school because I just visited and I hate it. And that would be great for you to learn. If you want more help, give me a call. Links in the bio.
