COLLEGE SOCCER RECRUITING AND SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION

Our soccer recruiting service can help you when applying for college soccer scholarships. It doesn't matter how good you are, to get recruited and be in line for a soccer scholarship you need to tell the college coaches who you are and why you deserve to play soccer at college level. COACHES CANNOT EVALUATE YOUR SPORTING POTENTIAL IF THEY DON'T KNOW YOU'RE OUT THERE.

Not all athletic scholarships are full ride like football and basketball, so called "head count sports"; most are classed as "equivalency sports", like soccer. Put simply this means that coaches can "share" their allocation between a larger number of players.

This is good news for the players. If we take women's soccer as an example we see that a coach can divide the "12" scholarships between a larger number of soccer players. Say 25 partial instead of 12 full ride scholarships. If you are good enough of course then a full ride soccer scholarship is always on the cards.

Women's soccer is one of the fastest growing intercollegiate sports mainly due to the application of TITLE IX so there are many opportunities out there for women.

Many fine young athletes are overlooked each year because they didn't submit their athletic resume to the "right" colleges or left out vital information. It's also a fact that many colleges simply don't allocate all of their soccer recruiting funds because "suitable" athletes didn't approach them.

"Football is a team game until the goalkeeper makes a mistake and then it becomes an individual sport."
John Keeley
(Ex professional goalkeeper Oldham and Brighton & Hove Albion)

The NCAA allows each division 1 soccer program 9.9 scholarships for Men and 12 for Women. In division 2 the ratio is 9 for men and 9.9 for women.

As a high school soccer player you should be aware that the standard of play at college level is very high. I would recommend that you attend a few games to gauge the actual intensity of the game. Remember that only the absolute top players will be approached with offers.

Most soccer players will have to market themselves. You can try to do this yourself or use our soccer recruiting service.

IMPORTANT: You are not breaching any NCAA or NAIA rules by using our recruiting service to make application for a soccer scholarship.

Mike Lancaster
Email: mike@athleticscholarships.net
Phone: (831) 582 - 0333