A recruiting advisor interviews a junior soccer player from LA Bulls MLS Next with a 3.5 GPA about college interest. The player has already emailed Bowdoin, UMass Amherst, University of Washington, Columbia, and Vermont. The advisor explains how to contact coaches without being pushy and asks for highlight video to evaluate playing level.
And what club team do you play for?
I play for LA Bulls MLS Next.
LA Bulls MLS Next. What's your GPA?
3.5.
And, uh, what grade are you in? What, uh, junior?
I'm a junior.
Excellent. What's a school here at this camp you'd like to talk to? Bowdoin. Good choice. Top academic, NESCAC conference, really good. Have you spoken about it at all yet?
I emailed them today.
Okay, we'll talk to them. Maybe we'll go say hi to them right now. Um, okay, so Bowdoin's the coach. The coach that's here, did you email this coach?
Yeah.
Okay, excellent. Who else have you emailed?
I've spoken to like UMass, Amherst, UDub, Columbia.
Those are great schools. Awesome. Did you say UDub? Yeah. University of Washington? Yeah. The NCAA champs?
Yeah.
Was it genuine?
Yeah.
Okay, so genuine response from the NCAA champions. Of the students I've committed, and I'd like to think that I've helped many kids that even don't purchase my services, but We had a kid commit to Vermont last year, which was the champions, which makes me decent in this industry. This gentleman is talking to the former NCAA champions, yet he has not heard from Bowdoin yet. Now, I don't know what UDub said. It could have been genuine, it could have not been genuine, but— and again, I don't— I haven't seen him play yet. But regardless, in a polite way, you don't want to just leverage people to, you know, run them— run amok, per se. But for the Bowdoin coach, I do think it'd be good in person to express your significant interest. And then you don't have to come out and say, "U-Dub, talk to me." That's not how you would do that. You would just be nice first and let him inquire. And then once he inquires, though, you should have a self-confidence to go, if he asks questions about me, you'll have good things to respond with. Because all those other schools are really good. Now, some of these coaches don't care who you're being recruited by, but for your own confidence level, it should help you to go, "I'm being recruited by other people." So for U-Dub, that's awesome. Will you send me a highlight video?
Yeah.
Awesome.
Okay, great job.
Comment the word review and I will tell you what level you can play based off of your video.
