College Recruiting Tips
Players
1. Prepare for college as best as you can:
- Get good grades,
- Get as high an SAT score as you can,
- Take the tests more than once if you have to,
- Make sure you register with the Clearing House, and
- Build a high school resume that shows you would be an asset to the school you wish to attend.
2. Investigate colleges in advance. You don’t want to go to a school just to play soccer, and the schools don’t want you there if you don’t fit. You should:
- Find a school with major courses of study that interest you,
- Be able to make the school’s GPA and SAT requirements or come pretty close to it,
- Make sure you like the campus, city, and area for the school, and
- See if you like the soccer team, its coach, and style of play.
3. Narrow your search down to 10 schools by your junior year. Write those 10 schools and let the soccer coach know you are interested in their school. Send them a player profile. Our new on-line system will allow you to do this all electronically. Let the coach know you will be playing in the Surf Cup and give them your team’s other tournament schedule.
4. Update those coaches during your junior and senior years as your SAT scores come in, when your tournament schedules change, and when important items can be added to your high school and soccer resume.
5. As soon as you make up your mind about school, let all the coaches that have shown interest in you know, so they may put their attention elsewhere.
Teams
1. Make sure you have player profiles and are prepared to let college coaches have them.
2. Compile a list of the schools your players are interested in, and get your team schedule to the soccer coaches at those schools.
3. Be prepared to hand out player profiles to college coaches, but instead of carrying around a large booklet of profiles at tournaments, have a roster to hand out. Take the coaches’ business cards and mail them the full booklet later.
4. Leave your large boxes of profile books home when you come to Surf Cup as we give the coaches everything they want to have.
