A player got a Division III soccer scholarship from a self-made highlight video without attending ID camps. He wishes he'd asked his recruiting coach how long they planned to stay, since the coach left and changed his college experience. His advice: make your own film, use self-interviews, and ask the hard questions.
How to get a $100,000 scholarship using only video. Listen to this story. Pro tip for you guys, you do not have to use it, but I play D3 soccer. How many of you guys have a self-interview? You guys have a self-interview? Good job. Love it. Anyone else record their coach or anyone else and then put that in their highlight video? You can be honest. No, right? Most of you, no. I did not go to an ID camp. I got recruited to play D3 soccer exclusively off a highlight video. If I would have asked this one question, I would have had a completely different college experience. And the question is, when are you planning on moving on? Meaning to the coach that I said, yes, I'm going to spend the next 4 years of my life here. Guess what? They left the following year. So it really wasn't that helpful for me to go there and now spend 3 years with a coach who didn't recruit me. You're in 10th grade, comment 10 below and I'll send you what you should do if you want to play college soccer.
