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A college soccer coach recommends juniors build a list of 20-30 schools, then narrow it down senior year. Focus on academic fit and division level instead of mass emails. Organize schools into academic and backup tiers to improve your chances.
A college soccer coach recommends juniors build a list of 20-30 schools, then narrow it down senior year. Focus on academic fit and division level instead of mass emails. Organize schools into academic and backup tiers to improve your chances.
How many schools should be on your list when you're creating your list to play college soccer? Here's what a college coach thinks, and I think his advice is really good. I probably would have a few more schools than he advises, but he's the man. He's the college coach. I think there's a really good way to go about it, specifically for your top schools. I do like you to have a backup list, but that's because I have this technology that allows us to send many emails at once. If you had to do everything manually, this is kind of a good base to go off of. It doesn't always mean you'll get the best results, But this is a good base. So listen to this.
I mean, what your list means, if you're a junior, you're probably about 20 to 30, right? And then, you know, senior year, it's certainly a scenario where that list has got to be shrunk if you're not already committed to an institution. And what the reason that you were creating a list and we'll talk about it, how you create a list is because you want to hunt specific schools that you're consistently focusing on. If you're just sending emails out randomly, you know, to schools and it just gets exhausting, right? But if you can have a list of schools and we'll go into the next piece, but if you can go to and know that these are the schools that I'm recruiting, that I'm recruiting, meaning you as a student athlete family, you're recruiting the school, right? That these fit based on a criteria and we'll go into this criteria here. If you know that you can fit these schools and you're hunting them, you have a more likely chance, a better chance to get recruited. So I'll come back to it, but let me, let me talk about what that means. So one, do an academic set, right? So okay, most of you are on this list, you're high academics, fantastic. But I'm sure some of you, if you had the opportunity— well, maybe not all of you, but some of you— you would maybe go to Cal State Northridge if they offered you a position, I would guess, you know. And I'm not— nothing against Cal State Northridge, I went, I played at Cal State Northridge, but it's certainly not the same academic level as Pomona and Claremont, let's say, for example, or Caltech. So, you know, you may say I want a hugely high academic school, but you're also probably saying, but I would take Division I, you know. And so I think just being— and maybe that's not all of you. Maybe some of you are saying I don't care if Northridge, Fullerton, Riverside offer me a full ride. I only want to go in this case to this weekend Pomona or Claremont, which is fine. But understand, like, where are you academically realistically? You know, and saying, are you really just high academics no matter what, or high academic D3s, or any Division I? You know, I think just having like that clarity with yourself will be helpful in making your list.
If you want help deciding what should be on your list and what to say, comment the word top academic and I'll send you a list of the top academic schools.
