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    Recruiting: What should a freshman be doing now?

    My daughter's club encourages players to send emails out to coaches starting freshman year. I think it's premature but I let her do what she feels like she needs to do. The only replies she ever gets, if any, are ID camp invites that are not personalized. But most of the time there is never any reply. She plays on an 04 team (one of the top national leagues) and hasn't come into her full body. She's still growing (is a late bloomer). I've been following several of these threads with great interest and it would seem there is at least 1 parent who has a lot of experience with recruiting but speaks from his experience with a very elite daughter and is very black and white about the whole process.

    Given my dd still needs to grow into her body, wouldn't it be better to not send these emails out until next year ?

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    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    My daughter's club encourages players to send emails out to coaches starting freshman year. I think it's premature but I let her do what she feels like she needs to do. The only replies she ever gets, if any, are ID camp invites that are not personalized. But most of the time there is never any reply. She plays on an 04 team (one of the top national leagues) and hasn't come into her full body. She's still growing (is a late bloomer). I've been following several of these threads with great interest and it would seem there is at least 1 parent who has a lot of experience with recruiting but speaks from his experience with a very elite daughter and is very black and white about the whole process.

    Given my dd still needs to grow into her body, wouldn't it be better to not send these emails out until next year ?
    hitting the gym and working on her skills

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      #3
      Is your daughter playing showcases this spring? Does the club have her make a list of colleges she’s interested in for the showcase? My guess is she is targeting the wrong schools. I’d encourage you to speak to her club coach about what level she can play at and then decide with her if she wants to go to colleges at that soccer level. If yes, pursue those colleges, if no, reevaluate.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        hitting the gym and working on her skills
        Whoops. I was going to say hit the books and try to figure out what she might want to study in college. Has she chosen a major already?

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          #5
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          Whoops. I was going to say hit the books and try to figure out what she might want to study in college. Has she chosen a major already?
          Step one - HONESTLY what level your kid fits at
          Step two - go to all of their upcoming ID camps - clinics to test if you are correct in your assesssment and see if your kid is even interested in going there ( at this point they probably won’t know any more than what they might major in)
          Step three - have your club coach contact the college coaches at the clinics your kid went to to see if they even noticed your kid and then to assess interest level.
          Step four - repeat steps 1-3 if necessary.
          Step five - work hard in the classroom and on the soccer field
          Step six - let them be a kid and have some fun. Whether on the soccer field or not they will work 50-60 years

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            #6
            From what I’ve heard regarding the 2022 class, there are only 20 or so commits so far. Could be more that won’t announce until much later given how early it is in the process and the rules around contact. Those kids are likely unicorns anyway.

            Most coaches are looking at 2021’s and D3’s 2020’s. I would begin making lists of schools and expressing interest to programs to get on their radar for next year for D1 and 2. Not much incentive to start D3/Ivy given the lack of money and need SAT’s cor an early read. ID camps might be a good fit now to get your D in the right competitive frame of mind and start competing with the older kids.

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              #7
              One of mine is a late bloomer also. The late bloomer is tops academically and wants to go to a top academic school, which generally can’t make offers until college board test results are in. She decided to wait out freshman year and she had only gone to one ID clinic this year as a sophomore but will go to several more this summer. Yes, the top D1s might be out of money for the late bloomer time frame but she probably wasn’t going to go top D1 last year anyway. Like you we didn’t want them to cross her off the list by seeing her before she grows/gets faster/more experienced anyway. We’ll never know if we made the right choice to wait for a while but decided we didn’t want to rush it. Her college degree will be for life so we didn’t want to rush it. The early bloomers have a major advantage of winning recruiting battles early but Inthink many late bloomers end up winning the longer-range war. Don’t forget that women’s soccer is one of or the biggest transfer/drop out college sport because colleges often commit to early bloomers that don’t work out.

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                #8
                Op here.
                DOC & Coach Evaluation- Both have said at the highest level mid-tier D1 and that once she puts on some mass and height she’ll be a great prospect.

                Academic - 4.0 student

                Schools she’s targeting - a range. Not interfering. But she is targeting safety schools, likely could play, and reach schools. Cost zilch to send an email.

                Major and schools- undecided and has no clue on which schools based on attributes a serious student should take into consideration. Most of the schools she’s mentions are not from her own research but based on what other people have said. Safety schools are in-state and she definitely has a strong opinion as of right now she wants to go out of state.

                ID camps- Went to one last summer with a friend at a school she’s not interested in but wanted to check out.

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                  #9
                  Do parents watch at ID camps? I’ve never been to one.

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                    #10
                    Dont send her to any ID events if she isn't ready. If you think it - parents are.notoriusly biased - then she's really not ready. Plus the NCAA is trying to get the timetable pushed back to a more saner schedule. Except for the super studs coaches aren't looking at her age yet. She should contact coaches to get on their lists and establish contact, but dont feel obliged to attend the events. Once HS is done next fall that is when she should ramp up her efforts and will start getting more interest in the spring

                    Like others said, she should spend time focusing on what she wants in a school as well as better targeting the soccer level. Its never too early to do some regular college tours on free weekends or when attending a tournament. I'd also recommend doing a local ID event at a school she's not that interested in. It's good to get some experience before going to ones at her target schools

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Do parents watch at ID camps? I’ve never been to one.
                      Some do but not many. I think it's better for the kids if their parents aren't lurking around

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        Some do but not many. I think it's better for the kids if their parents aren't lurking around
                        When your kid is first starting attending ID camps, you should absolutely watch. How else to tell whether or not you are targeting right? You need to see how your kid realistically stacks up against the level of play.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          Some do but not many. I think it's better for the kids if their parents aren't lurking around
                          Not true. Most do watch, for the reason the other poster stated.

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                            #14
                            If a school does express interest, is it beneficial to let a competing school know that during a conversation?

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                              #15
                              Players know when they have done well or not. Parents are not good judges of their own kids' ability. Go for a hike or see some local sights.

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