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The id clinics provide a networking opportunity. Sophomores won’t gain much traction this go around but come Junior year, the contacts made Sophomore year will help. The clinics are just part of the overall process. No one is getting an on the spot offer but relationships can be made. Player must follow up before and afterwards with the coaches.

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For those who have been through the process what is a reasonable amount of ID camps to target? We get a lot of emails asking to come to ID camps so was wondering what the realistic number to attend. Is it 5? 10? Asking for an 08 sophomore.

Ignore those emails. They're mass marketing because the events help pad team budgets. Guaranteed most have never even see her play yet. When the time is right and recruiting is ramping up, your D needs to target programs that look like they'd be a good fit for her (consult her club for direction there). She needs to email coaches , send her resume and highlight reel, provide league and showcase schedules. Coaches can't officially talk to them until summer after sophomore year. If a coach comes to watch her play then invites her? There's probably some interest there, but suss it out.

Now, that said it is a good idea to do one or two freshman year. She can see how she stacks up, learn how they operate and gain confidence for when the time is right. Try to do it at a school she doesn't care about in case she doesn't do well

How many events should she wind up doing overall? If she targets well and they're interested not many.

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Its a very tough process and the reality is also that some clubs help more than others, Just being on a 'top' team doesn't mean anything if your coach won't help you, reach out or even answer phone calls on your behalf. Looking back, we definitely should have reached out to more schools earlier, should have gone to some IDs, should have just realized that just being on a playoff level team was not going to mean that it all resolves itself. We made the mistake of assuming the more the team won and played the best other teams in showcases, the more coaches would reach out and that was not how it works, at all but without previous experience, we were basically blind.

IDK about those NCSA programs but I do know a lot more kids use professional recruitment help nowadays because it is very competitive and when you don't know what you're doing (or if you do not have the time) it is easy to lose a lot of valuable time.

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Its a very tough process and the reality is also that some clubs help more than others, Just being on a 'top' team doesn't mean anything if your coach won't help you, reach out or even answer phone calls on your behalf. Looking back, we definitely should have reached out to more schools earlier, should have gone to some IDs, should have just realized that just being on a playoff level team was not going to mean that it all resolves itself. We made the mistake of assuming the more the team won and played the best other teams in showcases, the more coaches would reach out and that was not how it works, at all but without previous experience, we were basically blind.

IDK about those NCSA programs but I do know a lot more kids use professional recruitment help nowadays because it is very competitive and when you don't know what you're doing (or if you do not have the time) it is easy to lose a lot of valuable time.

Same here. Our D was on the right team in the right league going to all the right showcases. In the end it worked out very nicely for us but didn't have as many options as we thought we would. It takes alot of work reaching out to many schools and staying with it. Don't just email once. Again we are very happy with how it all worked out but if it didn't we didn't have many options to fall back on

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I love hearing people talk about "P5 schools" for non revenue sports like women's soccer.

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I love hearing people talk about "P5 schools" for non revenue sports like women's soccer.

I get the point. But, there are some benefits of being in a "P5 school". Your scholarship will be guaranteed there, and not elsewhere. And, reality is to be truly competing for a title, it's only the P5 schools in the mix.

-Not a parent of a P5 player

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Fit is so crucial in the process. If your club has a track record of players who have been successful in college then utilize their advice about types of programs too target. Many players aim too high, get little interest and then are scrambling to readjust. They have no idea how competitive it is to stand out to better programs.

If your club doesn't have a good record, why are you there? Clubs that send poor players to the wrong programs stop getting phone calls to and from college coaches. Relationships matter in this process. If a club has sent a few players to a program that worked out well the coach knows the product

Anyway, if you are at a club that isn't much help your player needs to do more digging into the top 15 players on a roster. What were there backgrounds, what clubs were they with etc. If they're similar to your kid ok. If there's 5 NT players and yours isn't? Keep looking. You want a team you will play on, not warm the bench.

Also it's never to early to at least look at the school part of the equation. Take your kids to local campuses during school breaks etc , or while traveling say to a showcase. Even if it may not necessarily be a school they are interested in, expose them to a variety of sizes, locations etc. Why? Because the first thing they need to do before the soccer part is the school part. They should have a large list of school fits, then see if the soccer fit is there too.

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I love hearing people talk about "P5 schools" for non revenue sports like women's soccer.

I do not understand your sarcasm. How about explaining.

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I do not understand your sarcasm. How about explaining.

Not the OP, but women's soccer (men's, too, for that matter) get dragged along by football and basketball.

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I get the point. But, there are some benefits of being in a "P5 school". Your scholarship will be guaranteed there, and not elsewhere. And, reality is to be truly competing for a title, it's only the P5 schools in the mix.

-Not a parent of a P5 player

Nothing is guaranteed man

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Nothing is guaranteed man

P5 athletes do get 4 year guarantees. If you quit that's a different story. Everyone else is year to year. If you're pulling your weight then renewal shouldn't be an issue. If you're not...or the coach wants to use part of your money for a kid coming in 2 years he can.

Merit money? That sticks all 4 years as long as you maintain your GPA. Financial aid shouldn't change either unless your income does substantially.

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Not the OP, but women's soccer (men's, too, for that matter) get dragged along by football and basketball.

Not in my daughter’s world. Her soccer team is very well respected. There stands are mostly filled with the student body and regular people not affiliated with the college as well as the local soccer club that bring the players to watch. Same at away matches. In addition, P5 programs matches are shown quite often on their own cable network channel. Not bad for a non-revenue sport that generates a lot of interest.

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I get the point. But, there are some benefits of being in a "P5 school". Your scholarship will be guaranteed there, and not elsewhere. And, reality is to be truly competing for a title, it's only the P5 schools in the mix.

-Not a parent of a P5 player

Santa Clara won the national championship 3 years ago

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The id clinics provide a networking opportunity. Sophomores won’t gain much traction this go around but come Junior year, the contacts made Sophomore year will help. The clinics are just part of the overall process. No one is getting an on the spot offer but relationships can be made. Player must follow up before and afterwards with the coaches.

Almost all P5 schools have the 2025 class already sown up (outside a transfer portal kid). The priorities now are identifying the 26’s targets and starting the 27 landscape. Like another poster said if you wait too long the conveyor belt will indeed stop with you on it!

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I get the point. But, there are some benefits of being in a "P5 school". Your scholarship will be guaranteed there, and not elsewhere. And, reality is to be truly competing for a title, it's only the P5 schools in the mix.

-Not a parent of a P5 player

Just curious, why do you think a P5 school scholarship is guaranteed but non-P5 school is not? So Villanova for example is not P5, should I be worried about my D's scholarship there? What does the conference a school plays in have to do with the scholarship's guarantee?