Am I being recruited?

Midwestmomofboys
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 14:40:12 +0000

Coaches are used to this drill, they do it every year. It’s much harder on players and their families who are likely only ever doing it once.

It sounds like you haven’t heard directly from the Head Coach yet. At least in our small sample of D3 soccer recruiting, the conversation about whether player was being offered a roster spot always came from the head coach, not assistants.

If you haven’t communicated with the head coach at all, email/call her to ask if you could schedule time to talk by phone about where you stand in their recruiting plans. Then, ask her specifically, where do you stand in her recruiting plans, where does she see you fitting in on the team; are there “tryouts” for recruited players, are recruits ever cut? Ask about support for admissions, where do you stand in terms of stats of recruits in the past, how often/what percentage of players with your stats have been denied?

NYU is notoriously bad on financial aid, so applying ED there, as a recruited athlete, is something to sit down with your parents to talk carefully about. While financial aid not working out is a reason to decline ED offer of admission, for a recruited athlete, the risk is that, by the time you find out it won’t work financially and won’t be attending NYU, coaches at most other competitive programs have filled their roster spots and are no longer looking for players so your recruiting options have shrunk considerably.

NYU plays in a conference which involves a lot of travel – schools like Chicago, Wash U in St Louis, Case Western, Brandeis. While those are great schools to be competing against, it does mean that the travel for away games is more time-consuming and exhausting. Also, the home fields are in Riverdale – essentially, the Bronx. Have you thought about what that would mean for your day-to-day schedule? Very different than trotting out of the dorm onto the practice field at another school.

Sounds like you had a great camp, congratulations, that is a great feeling!