After soccer camp, email college coaches with a one-page template and a subject line that leads with your top credentials: ECNL affiliation, GPA, position, club, graduation year. Follow up with video highlights, test scores, achievements, or thank-you notes to keep coaches engaged without demanding responses.
template, it can be hard to know what to say after. Most of you guys, although that was very helpful, kind of know what to say prior. What's important, it was very quick and concise, right? He didn't even have to scroll. You just look at one page and read the email. Your subject line— I was at the camp last week, so you guys are gonna have a great time, by the way. It's one of the great questions that Katie was asking, was like, do you get to interact with these coaches? And I've never seen one better, so you guys got a good one. And I was at the men's camp last week, is I was talking to the Cal Berkeley coach, and what he was saying is he will look up your name in the subject line and just see how many times your name shows up. So in your subject line, it should be a version of your best stuff, ECNL, 3.9 GPA, position, club, grad year, name. Because then when they look you up, they can see how many emails you sent them. And then the other types of emails that exist, there's a follow-up email with a video. There's a, I got great SAT score, or my transcripts came in, or if it's not school related, 'cause some of you are 2030s, 29s, it is soccer related, I scored a goal. Our team won. And basically, to his point of do I have a formula, good news is when you want to talk to coaches because there's not always good news. So let's say you get not selected for ODP but get nominated to go to tryouts. That's something to talk about because you may not make the team. May as well use the good news while you got it. Then if you make the team, talk about that. So almost finding an excuse to, uh, follow up. And then the last one I'll just add that goes a long way for our students is something genuine that has nothing to do with recruiting, such as happy holidays, happy Thanksgiving. This goes a long way just because it's the only time of year where you could ask something or say something without demanding some type of response that has to do with your quote unquote selfish desires, right? You could actually genuinely say to Rod, I really enjoyed the camp, Merry Christmas, end of story. And that can go a long way. Cool.
