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FRESHMAN / SOPHOMORE YEAR

Student Athlete:

• Create a soccer resume and cover letter to send to schools
• Send out soccer resumes and cover letters to prospective coaches/schools (No earlier than spring of freshman year)
• Send out soccer letters (or emails) that outline where you will be playing so coaches can evaluate you throughout the year.
• Begin to research school’s academic and athletic programs via your counseling office, college web sites, and comprehensive sites such as www.usnews.com.
• Begin to explore with your parents how you will finance your education.
• Take PSAT’s.
• Keep up your grades. Play, Play, Play.

• NCAA regulations do not allow college coaches to send out any information about their programs until September 1st of your junior year. If you mail coaches something as a sophomore they can only send you a questionnaire and a soccer camp brochure in return.
• You may call or email college coaches as much as you like, but they cannot respond by mail or email until Sept. 1st of your junior year or by phone until July 1st of your senior year.
• NCAA regulations do not allow college coaches any off-campus contact during your sophomore and junior years. When college coaches see athletes or their parents at soccer tournaments they are only allowed a “formal greeting”.

 JUNIOR YEAR

Student Athlete:

• Continue to send out soccer update letters (or emails) that outline where you will be playing so coaches can evaluate you throughout the year.
• Research scholarship opportunities (athletic and non athletic) (e.g. www.collegeboard.com)
• Take “unofficial” visits (unpaid by the school) to schools. Talk to students, admissions offices, and soccer coaches. Take campus tours and begin to narrow your list of schools.
• SAT’s/ACT’s & SAT II and AP tests.
• Send out for college applications at the beginning of the summer.
• Attend college soccer camps.
• Keep up your grades. Play, Play, Play.

• September 1st of your junior year, college coaches are allowed to send you written (or emailed) correspondence as often as they like. All other rules remain the same.

 SENIOR YEAR

Student Athlete:

• Register for the NCAA Clearinghouse through your high school counselor. Make sure your transcripts meet the proper admissions requirements and athletic eligibility for your schools.
• Decide and set your “official visits” with five schools. You will have to send transcripts and test scores to the schools before you can visit officially.
• Retake SAT/ACT, if necessary.
• Take SAT II/AP tests.
• Request recommendations from your teachers/counselors.
• Write essays & mail applications. If your application is getting “tagged” by the school, meaning you will get a special look from the admissions office, you still need to follow the normal application process and meet normal application deadlines!

• Coaches are allowed to phone recruits on July 1st after your junior year. Coaches are allowed one call per week per household.
• Coaches are allowed to visit the home of the recruit on or after July 1st. This will count as one of the three contacts coaches are allowed to have. On campus visits don’t count.
• Coaches will try and set up “official visits” (where the soccer program pays for your visit on campus for 24 hours) during your senior year or perhaps even at the end of your junior year.

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