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Anonymous wrote:When should this get started? I have a HS sophmore that wants to play in college. D3 might be realistic. When do we start communicating with coaches? Don't want to annoy them by starting too early.

boy or girl?

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Anonymous wrote:DD ('25) D1 ACC commit here:

- Emails #1. Went to a few camps (#2) and is committed to uni she went to camp for. They were very happy to have her and you knew they were interested even at a younger age before they could talk.

E-mail coaches going to showcases no earlier than a couple weeks out. Anything earlier and you'll be going to the bottom of the inbox and forgotten. Make sure you e-mail coaches even though they aren't on the showcase website. Large schools ALWAYS show up and you'll see them on the sideline and be thankful you e-mailed them.
Follow-up e-mails with your highlights. Keep your highlight video fresh and have 'chapters' in your highlights. Clearly delineate what you're showcasing and for the love of God, drop the house music.

After this, which isn't hard, it's up to what the coaches need. Now with a 28 max cap, that's just 7 girls per year. As an example, most D1s (including DDs) have 10-11 girls incoming. They want girls who are interested and they'll come see you if you are... they won't waste time on a rando player.

Do they recruit goalkeepers each year and, if so, how many?

There's no really good metric. Some power teams have just two keepers, then there's a school like Duke that has FOUR keepers every year. VT has four this year, which is abnormal, but three are graduating or finished after this season. Our best guess is that some schools will want 2-3, so there could be years when they have fresh/sophs they skip keepers for 7 field players, as an example. Doesn't have to be a hard seven of course, just mathematically it makes sense to be even as best you can.

With the new NCAA roster caps I would bet that having more than 2 keepers on any given team will be highly unusual after this season.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD ('25) D1 ACC commit here:

- Emails #1. Went to a few camps (#2) and is committed to uni she went to camp for. They were very happy to have her and you knew they were interested even at a younger age before they could talk.

E-mail coaches going to showcases no earlier than a couple weeks out. Anything earlier and you'll be going to the bottom of the inbox and forgotten. Make sure you e-mail coaches even though they aren't on the showcase website. Large schools ALWAYS show up and you'll see them on the sideline and be thankful you e-mailed them.
Follow-up e-mails with your highlights. Keep your highlight video fresh and have 'chapters' in your highlights. Clearly delineate what you're showcasing and for the love of God, drop the house music.

After this, which isn't hard, it's up to what the coaches need. Now with a 28 max cap, that's just 7 girls per year. As an example, most D1s (including DDs) have 10-11 girls incoming. They want girls who are interested and they'll come see you if you are... they won't waste time on a rando player.

Do they recruit goalkeepers each year and, if so, how many?

There's no really good metric. Some power teams have just two keepers, then there's a school like Duke that has FOUR keepers every year. VT has four this year, which is abnormal, but three are graduating or finished after this season. Our best guess is that some schools will want 2-3, so there could be years when they have fresh/sophs they skip keepers for 7 field players, as an example. Doesn't have to be a hard seven of course, just mathematically it makes sense to be even as best you can.

With the new NCAA roster caps I would bet that having more than 2 keepers on any given team will be highly unusual after this season.

Tend to agree and with my DD a sought after Keeper, I hope this is the case. In a way, it's good for some keepers as most colleges will go for the 'every-other-year' on keepers, but will also reduce the number looking each year. Everyone is impacted at every position, but keepers will be interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When should this get started? I have a HS sophmore that wants to play in college. D3 might be realistic. When do we start communicating with coaches? Don't want to annoy them by starting too early.

boy or girl?

Boy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD ('25) D1 ACC commit here:

- Emails #1. Went to a few camps (#2) and is committed to uni she went to camp for. They were very happy to have her and you knew they were interested even at a younger age before they could talk.

E-mail coaches going to showcases no earlier than a couple weeks out. Anything earlier and you'll be going to the bottom of the inbox and forgotten. Make sure you e-mail coaches even though they aren't on the showcase website. Large schools ALWAYS show up and you'll see them on the sideline and be thankful you e-mailed them.
Follow-up e-mails with your highlights. Keep your highlight video fresh and have 'chapters' in your highlights. Clearly delineate what you're showcasing and for the love of God, drop the house music.

After this, which isn't hard, it's up to what the coaches need. Now with a 28 max cap, that's just 7 girls per year. As an example, most D1s (including DDs) have 10-11 girls incoming. They want girls who are interested and they'll come see you if you are... they won't waste time on a rando player.

Do they recruit goalkeepers each year and, if so, how many?

There's no really good metric. Some power teams have just two keepers, then there's a school like Duke that has FOUR keepers every year. VT has four this year, which is abnormal, but three are graduating or finished after this season. Our best guess is that some schools will want 2-3, so there could be years when they have fresh/sophs they skip keepers for 7 field players, as an example. Doesn't have to be a hard seven of course, just mathematically it makes sense to be even as best you can.

With the new NCAA roster caps I would bet that having more than 2 keepers on any given team will be highly unusual after this season.

My player went to an ID camp where the coach actually said they made the decision to not recruit any new goalies for 25 or 26 (this was right after announcement so hard to know if connected) . They already had 3…