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 . Some recruiting advice I would give to high schoolers . When they're interacting with coaches and picking what school is best for them would first off be obviously be super polite to the coaches and remember , like , although when you're interacting with them , like they're sort of evaluating you like you want to be evaluating them too as a person because this could be your coach for the next 4 years potentially , especially when picking a school and when picking a school , um .
I attend UCLA and I play women's soccer there . Some of the best advice that I've been given from my coaches and mentors throughout the year has definitely been for recruiting purposes like how you were acting on and off the field and how much that plays into both the person you are on and off the field , but also the teammate you are and how college scouts will see you and how they will look at you . And perceive whether or not they want you on their team , both on the field , how you act , how you are cheering on your teammates , um , etc .
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 .
And that also just made me really appreciate the sport and I found ways to train throughout that , whether it be with my dad , maybe with some friends like socially distanced and it was nice because it was all outside , but it definitely all the challenges I've had have made me appreciate the sport so much more . 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 .
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 .
