College Recruiting Websites - D3 for Boys?

[Anonymous]

For those with older kids, are any of these websites where they want you to have a profile (and sometimes pay) worth it? I keep getting emails from Stack, NCSA, etc. Is it best to just reach out to the coaches you are interested in and ignore these or do both? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those with older kids, are any of these websites where they want you to have a profile (and sometimes pay) worth it? I keep getting emails from Stack, NCSA, etc. Is it best to just reach out to the coaches you are interested in and ignore these or do both? Thanks.

Coaches want to hear from your kid. have them send emails to the schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those with older kids, are any of these websites where they want you to have a profile (and sometimes pay) worth it? I keep getting emails from Stack, NCSA, etc. Is it best to just reach out to the coaches you are interested in and ignore these or do both? Thanks.

Also, Arlington Soccer has some good resources and how to on their website.

[Anonymous]

You don't need the recruiting service as like the other PP said, coaches want to hear from the player. Make the highlight and reach out to the HC of the targeted school directly.

[Anonymous]

Thats the lazy approach to look for a generic common website used by the masses

[Anonymous]

We used NCSA. They don't do anything you can't do yourself, it's just... do you WANT to and have the TIME to? You can also expect a LOT of salesy stuff and salesy emails and camp invitations. That said, my son DID get contacted by a D3 Coach through NCSA, and he ended up going to that school and playing..... so it CAN work.

And as an add on to the notes above. Coaches want to hear from your kid. They do NOT want to hear from you. They also do not want to hear from your kid's "ghost writer".

Good luck!

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Educating Parents of HS athletes on the College Recruiting Process

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Educating Parents of HS athletes on the College Recruiting Process

A lot of the educating parents site stuff is outdated for what is going on in college soccer today, or maybe relevant only for girls...

Any expert who advises against ID camps for boys is way off base. That only works if your kid is among the top 1-2%. For most others, ID camps are huge opportunities and always required if you are a middle of the pack MLSN or ECNL player especially now with the roster camps and all the international players (ID camps give you a leg up agains the internationals).

Many D3s have rosters full of players who attended their ID camp. Yes, its a money grab--but it also gives your kid opportunity to form a relationship with the coach and be seen across multiple days. Does it guarantee anything--no, but your odds greatly improve if you do well.

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Educating Parents of HS athletes on the College Recruiting Process

A lot of the educating parents site stuff is outdated for what is going on in college soccer today, or maybe relevant only for girls...

Any expert who advises against ID camps for boys is way off base. That only works if your kid is among the top 1-2%. For most others, ID camps are huge opportunities and always required if you are a middle of the pack MLSN or ECNL player especially now with the roster camps and all the international players (ID camps give you a leg up agains the internationals).

Many D3s have rosters full of players who attended their ID camp. Yes, its a money grab--but it also gives your kid opportunity to form a relationship with the coach and be seen across multiple days. Does it guarantee anything--no, but your odds greatly improve if you do well.

100% correct. For many D3s, they get all their players from a couple local clubs and then their own IDs (plus depending on the school, maybe a few internationals). So it isn't even a money grab, for many of them you aren't getting on the roster if you don't show up for an ID... Nothing money grab about that and they usually are less than a $100.

[Anonymous]

Put this in another post, but basically you have to understand that there’s significant tiers in D3.

The top D3 academic schools are often recruiting kids who can’t make a P4 roster (or if they did, they would never play a minute) but have offers from less desirable D1. However they have two other key assets:

1. Great grades
2. Rich family (caveat, can also be disadvantaged or first generation)

In particular, the UAA conference is arguably better than Patriot or A10. I am betting in women’s soccer Emory/CWRU/WashU would beat the socks off of AU, Lehigh, GW, St. Bonaventure or Bucknell.

So D3 questions kind of have to be diverted into two camps.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1Ap4bJ43sX/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Educating Parents of HS athletes on the College Recruiting Process

A lot of the educating parents site stuff is outdated for what is going on in college soccer today, or maybe relevant only for girls...

Any expert who advises against ID camps for boys is way off base. That only works if your kid is among the top 1-2%. For most others, ID camps are huge opportunities and always required if you are a middle of the pack MLSN or ECNL player especially now with the roster camps and all the international players (ID camps give you a leg up agains the internationals).

Many D3s have rosters full of players who attended their ID camp. Yes, its a money grab--but it also gives your kid opportunity to form a relationship with the coach and be seen across multiple days. Does it guarantee anything--no, but your odds greatly improve if you do well.

100% correct. For many D3s, they get all their players from a couple local clubs and then their own IDs (plus depending on the school, maybe a few internationals). So it isn't even a money grab, for many of them you aren't getting on the roster if you don't show up for an ID... Nothing money grab about that and they usually are less than a $100.

Many D3 men's programs don't have a recruitment budget, so they are relying on regional talent, connections and if you come to their ID camps. I would add that not all ID camps are equal - look for the ones that the school puts on, not the larger "Nike" ones. You also want your player to get a sense of the campus, the players and the coaching team. Its a two-way process - our player quickly ruled out a few programs after an ID camp- he didn't connect with the coaches and the players. We did use NCSA - it provided lists, coaches and contacts but also all the contacts our player made he followed up directly to ask more questions. Its hard to tell its value, as the end result was a coach-to-coach contact was what worked in the end.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those with older kids, are any of these websites where they want you to have a profile (and sometimes pay) worth it? I keep getting emails from Stack, NCSA, etc. Is it best to just reach out to the coaches you are interested in and ignore these or do both? Thanks.

Don’t pay for any service.

Have your son (or daughter) find a school they want to go to and do a general campus visit, you can typically schedule those online. Once you get a date and time, reach out to the soccer coach, say (from the kid’s perspective), they’re very interested in attending XYZ school, they have a campus tour on whatever date and here’s your highlight video and see if they’re interested. If it’s during the season, you can also say you’ll be attending their match and if it’s the offseason you’d be interested in a tour of the facilities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Put this in another post, but basically you have to understand that there’s significant tiers in D3.

The top D3 academic schools are often recruiting kids who can’t make a P4 roster (or if they did, they would never play a minute) but have offers from less desirable D1. However they have two other key assets:

1. Great grades
2. Rich family (caveat, can also be disadvantaged or first generation)

In particular, the UAA conference is arguably better than Patriot or A10. I am betting in women’s soccer Emory/CWRU/WashU would beat the socks off of AU, Lehigh, GW, St. Bonaventure or Bucknell.

So D3 questions kind of have to be diverted into two camps.

UAA in particular get the kids described above and the ones that just miss an Ivy or other top academic D1. Right now 7 of the 8 women's teams are ranked in the top 25 (including 1,2, and 3) and 4 of the 8 men's teams are ranked in the top 25.