A youth soccer development program serves 40% girls but sends a higher percentage of them to Division I than boys, crediting their greater commitment. The speaker has direct ties to women's college soccer through former roommates who coach at TCU and DePaul, and a former coach now at Florida.
How many girls do we work with? You know, it's not often— many of our students you would think are boys just because I'm a boy and I talk often about MLS Next and everything. But we actually have about 40% of our students are girls, and more of those students actually end up playing Division I soccer than our boys do. And my assumption is the girls that watch my pages and reach out to us are more committed than the average girl or even the average boy. So we actually have more success with our girls even though we work with slightly less of them, you will get a college soccer gal coach that works with you. But about 40% of our students are girls, and we're very familiar with that. My former roommate is the coach at TCU. My other former roommate from college is the coach at DePaul. My college coach, my former college coach is the coach of Florida, the Gators. So I'm pretty familiar with the women's side of the game, and they reach out to us and ask for our help and guidance and actually just for fun. Since you asked. This is a coach we got from the coach at DePaul. His name is Brendan Roth, who is my— he was a senior when I was a freshman. And he was asking me, you know, when are you gonna send me some ballers? We're already done with our 26s. We're on our 27s. And, you know, he wants some of my ballers. So we do work with girl coaches pretty often. And so we also work with many girl students.
