Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There will always be a kid here and there where ID camps were worth it, but anyone saying they are worth the price has no idea. Now if coaches send personalized invites then that is different but 99% of the time it is the school rasing money.

any anecdotes where it did help?

Boys.

A player who got recruited by a D1 program in our region said that two other schools who were interested originally, signed players who they said came to their ID camps instead, saying that they had a chance to get to know the players and see them in their own training environment. The take away being, it’s worth going to the IDs of schools that are interested in you as it might help seal the deal.

Anonymous wrote:For those already through with recruitment, is there a difference between the UVA Residential camps. IS being in Charlottesville that much better than the Alexandria option for rising 10th grader?

last time my kid went was going into ninth grade, and the players were not very good. We did meet the head Coach and he suggested to us to come back next year but very few get recruited from these events.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There will always be a kid here and there where ID camps were worth it, but anyone saying they are worth the price has no idea. Now if coaches send personalized invites then that is different but 99% of the time it is the school rasing money.

any anecdotes where it did help?

Boys.

Anonymous wrote:There will always be a kid here and there where ID camps were worth it, but anyone saying they are worth the price has no idea. Now if coaches send personalized invites then that is different but 99% of the time it is the school rasing money.

any anecdotes where it did help?

For those already through with recruitment, is there a difference between the UVA Residential camps. IS being in Charlottesville that much better than the Alexandria option for rising 10th grader?

There will always be a kid here and there where ID camps were worth it, but anyone saying they are worth the price has no idea. Now if coaches send personalized invites then that is different but 99% of the time it is the school rasing money.

My son has registered directly with schools and he gets notified of upcoming camps. When he registers he can also send footage and he has been in touch with several schools who have followed up with him.

He is also researching schools in regions he's interested in so that he can find the camps and opportunities to meet the coaches.

He setup an email specifically for college soccer so everything is in one place.