So as long as you are just doing your assignments when they're supposed to be done and you don't procrastinate , procrastinating has been a problem for me in the past , but If you learn to overcome that and you stick to a clear schedule that you've made and is organized , um , you can definitely balance it well so that you even have time outside of soccer in school still to yourself . Playing at the college level has made me a better player in the ways that I've just learned so much , especially since I'm still a pretty young player on the team . A lot of the older girls and coaches as well have just taught me .
I really love like all the offers and it's so amazing that they get to do that for us . Some final advice that I would give to younger high school players that are trying to go to the college level would be just trust the path that you are on . Um , it makes it a lot less nerve-wracking because it's a super nerve-wracking time .
Hi , my name is Sienna Meyer . I go to UCLA and I'm on the women's soccer team , and you can check me out at Next Level Prep .
My recruitment process started . Probably my freshman year just with coaches looking at us , even though they can't talk to us till June 15th of in between our sophomore and junior year , but they started coming to our showcases for the ECNL League um about freshman year and we weren't talking to them , but we were emailing them our schedules and whatnot , and we'd have about 50 coaches a game back then , and then once it hit . Uh , a few months before June 15th , we had about 100 to 150 coaches each showcase , and I would be emailing them .
After when June 15th hit , I got some texts from different coaches across the country , um , different schools , D1 , C2 , C3s , all the different ones , and then started talking to them , went on some officials for some variety of schools , one of them being UCLA , and then I fell in love with UCLA pretty quickly , and I knew I wanted to come here . My advice to anybody trying to make themselves known to coaches before June 15th of your sophomore and junior year . Um , would be to definitely reach out to them , even though they're not allowed to contact you back , definitely email them your showcase schedule , your season schedule , and post clips on social media if you can , and definitely attend ID camps of schools you're interested to , and those would be the three biggest things to have coaches notice you before June 15th .
