<p>If any of you guys went through the sports process please give me an insight!</p>
<p>Im a junior right now and will play varsity my senior year...</p>
<p>I wanna play soccer for a DIII school in the New England Region.</p>
<p>I am probably going to contact some coaches, tell them that im interested, and give them info on the dates when i have showcases and big tournaments. </p>
<p>If some of you guys werent recruited but tried to walk on...please give me some info on that as well...</p>
<p>How much of your high school coaches help??</p>
<p>You should put together a "soccer resume" and send it to the coaches observing any NCAA restrictions on timing. I believe DIII is a lot looser than DI was. The resume has both school stuff and your soccer stuff on it. Your HS should have some sample from past students to help. Coaches may or may not be useful, depends on your coach and how in touch he/she is.</p>
<p>I'm a current senior, and started contacting coaches in August of my senior year. I'd HIGHLY recommend contacting coaches now. For the DIII schools it isn't necessary to fill out Clearinghouse (NCAA), but for any DI and DII schools I'm pretty sure it's required.</p>
<p>HS coaches in all honesty are the least of colleges worries, from what I've seen in the field hockey area. They want to see you participating on club teams, doing tournaments, etc. I'd also recommend putting together a resume and a video with footage of you playing. Keep any publications about you.</p>
<p>I was recruited by several DIII schools, but academically they weren't what I was looking for.</p>
<p>Overall, don't choose a school based on the soccer or sport - put the academics FIRST.</p>
<p>It's better to start the process sooner rather than later. Unfortunately for myself, I started it later, and it hurt me in the long run. PM me if you have any more questions, I may be able to dig up some information.</p>
<p>Sports are very competitive even at the D-3 level. I do not know when the coaches recruit for soccer but you will have to get plenty of film together for the coaches possibly as a highlight film or a game where you really excelled. High school coaches can be very helpful especially if they are willing to contact the coaches and go to bat for you. It is also important that you keep your grades up and work on you sat's because that is a factor that the coaches consider at the d-3 level. I don't know if club opportunities or showcases are used in d-3 soccer if so you should attend. If you really know what school you want to attend you should attend any soccer camps that the school sponsors. At the d-3 level is is important that you be proactive and contact the coaches of the schools you wish to attend. If it is at all possible get yourself to venues where the d-3 coaches can see you play. If there are schools that you really want to attend try to have your HS coach make a push for you with the d-3 college coach, that is what he is supposed to do, help out his players.
Best of luck</p>
<p>thanks for all the help...my high school coach is willing to help me out and knows a lot of college coaches...he says he has a good relationship with coaches such as Babson, where i really want to go...</p>
<p>^^ Soccer at the DIII level isn't all that serious in most cases. </p>
<p>But as a potential soccer recruit you shouldn't just be playing for your school. You should be playing for a decent club team if you want to be considered. The process is different depending on the level that you're looking to play in college. If you want DI or DII sign up for NCAA clearinghouse, if DIII then don't worry about it. Right now you should be putting together a list of colleges that you may want or consider attending (both academically and athletically). The first step is to contact the coach of that school. Last year i sent out emails to coaches to initiate contact or you can have your coach or manager do that for you or lots of schools have prospective student-athlete questionnaires that you can fill out and someone will contact you. Those questionnaires are good because they give space to list other info like where you play, what position, what team, any awards, ODP, national team etc. When they respond give them a schedule of where your team will be playing in the next couple of months. At tournaments, showcases, regular league games, whatever. If you're not on a team that plays in showcases then maybe you can look into becoming a guest player for a team at a showcase or tournament. If you don't want to go through that then most colleges do offer a camp during the summer that the coach and many other coaches will attend and evaluate potential student-athletes; i highly recommend looking in to that. It's important to stay in contact with these coaches and to keep them updated on anything soccer related. You may also look into making a highlight video or soccer resume if you choose to; however I was recruited by top DI schools without doing that (granted my club team is highly ranked and i have a lot of awards). But to me, the main thing is don't overestimate your talent, and i'm not trying to be mean. DI or DII and even in some cases DIII (think middlebury, amherst, norwich, williams - all in the new england region) soccer is tough and not for everyone. Don't think just because you're on a good team that you can play at that level. What I'm saying is this, if you can't play DI (and maybe you should ask your coach if he honestly thinks you can succeed at the DI or DII level) don't waste your time contacting DI coaches. In the end they won't want you and you'll be left with no offers and no where to play in most cases. But best of luck to you. And let me just add that you should start contacting coaches like now. Today. Right now. College soccer season is finished and coaches are evaluating their current team. They're looking at the seniors that are leaving, what positions they're lacking at, and what holes in their teams need to be addressed. The faster you contact them the less likely they have already filled up spots.</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK!</p>
<p>if you have any questions feel free to PM me :-D.</p>
<p>^^ yea most definitely. it's tough. i didn't mean to negate that. what i was trying to say was that in DIII, as opposed to DI or DII, you have time for yourself and school. A lot of the kids from my school and club play DI and they say it's like a job. Meaning they go to practice, barely have time for school work, and then sleep. As opposed to DIII where it's more laxed; serious still but laxed.</p>
<p>At forward everyone has their unique talent. Personally I hate playing against shorter players (no offense) because of their low center of gravity lol. Tevez, Messi, Wright- Phillips haha. Anyway college soccer is so different from any other sport because you kind of have to recruit the coaches and find them yourself lol. If you don't play club try to find out what camp the coach you want to play for will be attending and contact him. Camps are the next best thing besides ODP you can do to get recruited. PM if you need any more tips.</p>