College soccer recruiting for Division I and top Division III programs closes by February of junior year. Coaches evaluate mostly through video, so send full-game footage showing every touch, not highlight reels. Juniors and seniors should attend ID camps and email coaches now.
For parents, if you said to me, when should you go to an ID camp? I tell everybody yesterday. And the main reason for that is in women's soccer, the Division I recruiting process and high academic DIII's are done in your junior year. So typically February of your junior year, it is over. So for the girls who are juniors here, not saying it's too, too late because you technically never know, but statistically speaking, for D1 programs that are high academic and/or D1 in general are done February of your junior year. Having said that, let's say you are a junior here. What I want to also tell you is you can still completely get recruited by D3s and D2s in what we call the mid-tier levels. They're not done recruiting sometimes all the way into your senior year, but high academic D3s and high academic Division I's are almost always done in your junior year, which is why for the 8th grade girls that are here, you're not really in 8th grade, you're in 9th grade. And the sophomores, you're not in sophomores, you're really juniors. And when you're juniors or seniors Does that make sense? So for those of you that are juniors and their parents who are maybe listening, you guys are at DEF CON 5. You have to go to individual camps, you have to write emails, you have to go to video, and all of you guys probably have good grades, which I'll ask next. So because of that, we don't want you to sacrifice your soccer just for academics. Uh, yes, we didn't do either. Let's flip that. We don't want to sacrifice your academics just for soccer. So because of that, this is why the process has to start yesterday. Now you can catch up. I have some technology systems that helps you write emails a little faster and more genuine. And the videos though, if you guys don't have either somebody who can edit them, you can find people online for that, but they have to be really good. And how many of you were at the Zoom call during the week? Quite a few of you. And I did like that little diagnosis of the couple players in their videos, and I criticized them the most part. And those videos, I could tell you everything to do here, and even you could play really well at this camp they are all going to follow up with you and want to see video, whether it's an every-touch video. Raise your hand if you know what every-touch video is. Legends, for mom and dad, that's every touch you took in one game, including your mistakes, in order of best to worst. Those are better than highlights. Once I've seen your highlights once, I don't need to see your highlights again. I've seen your best stuff. I now need to see you as a complete player. Hence why, you know, you're coming to an ID camp so they can see that. But even at this ID camp, let's just pick on this number 250. She's not going to touch the ball in this 11s more than probably 5 times if she's lucky. That's not enough to get recruited. That's why the ID camps are so great, because you'll do 9v9s and 8v8s and possession where it's really small-sided so they can actually see you. But let's say 250 already knows the coaches. She doesn't need to be seen more than 5 times. They've already sent her video, 15 of them. The coaches only need to confirm what they saw on video. 80% of the process is done via video, then 30%, 20% is confirmation of what they saw on video. Mainly the reason for this is because budgets for these coaches, they do not have time to come to your club practice and then go to every million showcases you guys go to. They have to see you at a camp or frankly video. Make sense?
