Win The College Soccer Recruiting Game

If your child aspires to play competitive college soccer, this book is a must read.The college soccer recruiting process can be, at once, mysterious, imperfect, and frustrating. Perhaps the ultimate U.S. soccer insider, Steve Gans provides parents with a roadmap and gameplan for navigating the process from youth soccer to recruitment to a college soccer program. In this book, Steve explains each step in the college recruiting process as well as the ways that players and parents should prepare for them. Topics include:?Engaging recruiting coaches?Creating highlight videos?Selecting Identification Camps?Evaluating Showcase tournaments?Considering MLS Next (boys) or ECNL (girls) options?Weighing MLS Next vs. High School?Dealing with Recruiting Coach movement?Understanding College Draft Boards?Realizing the impact of playing out of position?Using club recruiting services?Appreciating Pros and cons of college coaches at your club?Dealing with unpredictability in the processThis book includes 7 interviews with top college coaches to help you understand the particular recruiting criteria and processes of each of them.The book begins, and is interspersed, with Steven's personal soccer journey and the recruiting challenges faced by his sons Noah and Josh. As Steve will attest, each soccer recruiting story is personal, and each player and their family should prepare for, and hopefully embrace, the journey

Many athletes (and their parents) find the college recruiting process to be confusing, complex and difficult. They're not sure where to start or how to begin. If you're an athlete and want to play soccer at the college level, then you can't wait for coaches to come knocking at your door, or expect to be 'discovered.' According to the NCAA, only around 2% of athletes are actively recruited. College coaches want to hear from good players who are genuinely interested in their program. The most successful athletes are the ones who are pro-active and start marketing themselves early in high school to college coaches. Written by a soccer parent whose two daughters were successfully recruited to play D1 college soccer, this step-by-step guide provides a comprehensive game plan for players to get a college coach's attention. It also provides valuable information on all D1, D2, D3, NAIA, and NJCAA schools. With over 220 topics and questions covered in-depth; and over 1400 schools listed, this guide explains what a athlete needs to do to be successfully recruited, starting Freshman year in High School right through to Senior year. Some of the topics covered include: 1) What is the recruiting timeline for athletes? 2) What do College Coaches look for in a Recruit? 3) How to get started contacting College Coaches. 4) What to look for when visiting a college or university? 5) How to determine if a College Coach is really interested in you? 6) What turns College Coaches off a potential Recruit? 7) What to expect from your first contact with a College Coach? 8) How to write a great soccer resume to send to a coach. 9) What questions should I ask a College Coach? 10) What is the most important thing to consider when picking a school? 11) What are NCAA Recruiting Guidelines and why do I need to register with the NCAA? 12) When are Verbal Commitments usually made? 13) What to expect with Athletic Scholarships and how are they decided? 14) The importance of your high school transcripts and ACTs/SATs . 15) Do athletes receive support in admissions? 16) Should my parents play a role in my recruiting? 17) What is a National Letter of Intent and when do I sign one? 18) What are the differences in playing Division I, Division II, Division III, NAIA or NJCAA soccer? 19) Playing High School vs. Club Soccer. 20) How to best benefit from College Recruiting Showcase Tournaments. 21) What to expect as a College soccer player? plus much more.....

The Player's Complete Guide to College Soccer Recruiting demystifies college soccer recruiting for any player aspiring to get to the next level. Talented players often fall through the cracks because of the small recruiting budgets amongst other factors. This book equips players to take control of the recruiting process for themselves in order to achieve their athletic, academic, and personal goals. Since few players are taught how to navigate college soccer recruiting, educating players and having them execute will give them a huge leg up on their competition. This translates into more scholarship money, a better college soccer experience, and personal growth for any player willing to take action now.

How to Ensure That Your Children Are Given The Opportunity to Succeed at Sports Win The Youth Sports Game objectively narrates how ordinary kids can progress, survive, and thrive within today's $20 billion, youth-sports industrial complex. The sixteen-year developmental trek from toddler to collegiate athlete is chronicled while juxtaposing the real-life challenges that athletes in all sports must endure and overcome. Win The Youth Sports Game is the first title ever to provide an honest reality-check for parents—a What to Expect When You are Expecting for youth sports. Fifty incredibly common, adult-imposed obstacles are exposed so that parents can help their athletes navigate and overcome these challenges along their own sports journeys. Fifty million parents may be hopeful their young athletes are on track to play college sports and win a scholarship, but only about 2 percent of elite high school athletes receive even a partial sports scholarship. Share this book's table of contents with any sports parent, and they'll immediately identify with some of the seemingly outrageous storylines. The unfortunate outcome is that more than 75 percent of kids quit sports by age fourteen, with over-zealous adults being a big contributor. The author will donate half of any profits to Project Play's youth-sports advocacy programs.

Put Me In, Coach: A Parent's Guide to Winning the Game of College Recruiting is a must-have guidebook for attracting the attention of college coaches that will maximize your chances of competing in college sports. Written for parents, it guides them through the process of identifying the colleges that are an ideal fit academically, athletically, and socially. It provides tips about how to get financial aid from any school, even those that don't offer athletic scholarships. It offers marketing advice so coaches will take notice and helps student-athletes and their parents understand recruiting from the coaches point of view. Twenty real-life stories and comments from forty NCAA coaches bring unique insight as well.

Playing The Game offers readers the first detailed, inside look at exactly how the athletic recruiting game is played by coaches, prospective students, parents, administrators, admission officers, and even college presidents in the Ivy League and its Division III counterpart, the NESCAC. Here is the inside story on why this specialized process has caused so much controversy on campus and off.

Most people think talent is genetically determined. Either you can sing or you can't. You get calculus or it's beyond you. You have what it takes to succeed -- or you don't. The truth about human performance is far more encouraging, says Dr. Bob Rotella in Life Is Not a Game of Perfect. Dr. Rotella, the bestselling author of Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect and Golf Is a Game of Confidence, believes that talent, as conventionally defined and measured, plays a secondary role in determining one's fate. Far more important is real talent, a combination of character, attitude, and devotion, which makes greatness possible. And the good news is that anyone can develop real talent. As always, Dr. Bob Rotella speaks from experience. He has made a career of helping people chase and catch their dreams. His authority as a sports psychologist is well known. Golfers from Tom Kite to David Duval to Pat Bradley have relied on him to help them break through to triumphs on the PGA Tour. But Bob Rotella's practice extends beyond the sports world. He is a consultant on performance enhancement to leading businesses such as Merrill Lynch, General Electric, and PepsiCo. He has worked with successful people in businesses ranging from law to entertainment. From hundreds of clients and countless students, Dr. Bob Rotella has learned what works. In Life Is Not a Game of Perfect, he shares what he has learned and what he teaches his clients. Real talent, he explains, is "brilliance of a different sort." It is the nerve to choose a career doing something you love or the ability to learn to love what you do. It is courage, persistence, and determination. It is the ability to handle failure and honor commitments. Whether you think so or not, real talent is within your grasp. In Life Is Not a Game of Perfect, Dr. Bob Rotella will help you make it a decisive element in your life. He can show you how to identify and cultivate the qualities that lead to success, prosperity, and happiness.