<p>My son got this email after attending a college soccer camp. Is this just the email they send to most people who attended the camp; should we bother to respond?</p>
<p>Dear ****,</p>
<p>Thanks for your interest in **** Soccer. We are very interested in continuing to watch your progress. Please send us a schedule of your upcoming tournaments. Also, please keep us updated on your most recent SAT and/or ACT scores and GPA. Good luck with school and soccer.</p>
<p>Yes. They are interested. I actually think the short and to the point emails are a better sign than the long drawn out emails or letters that seemed “canned”. If your son is interested then he needs to respond with these details, and constantly FOLLOW-UP with whomever is interested. This is how the recruiting process starts. “Rinse and repeat” many times over.</p>
<p>In addition, your son can reach out to programs he is specifically interested in (don’t wait for them to come to him) with this information too.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>Thumbs up on the email… you would be amazed how often recruits don’t even get a response, let alone a yes keep us posted one!! Congrats…</p>
<p>Yes, that’s a good e-mail. If it’s a program your son is interested in, you probably will want to check with him periodically to see that he’s responding to further e-mails and getting the coach the info he wants. My son and most of his pals had to be prodded a bit in this regard, even when it was a school they wanted to attend. Afterall, these kids are pretty busy. So that he could concentrate on his schoolwork (and have time for video games and a social life), I tried to help him out by organizing things for him, pointing out updates he needed to make to his soccer resume, and gently reminding him in advance of a tournament that he needed to communicate with coaches. It all worked out. It’s definitely encouraging to get an e-mail like the one your son got. Best wishes to him in the process!</p>