Soccer Recruiting 2009 - What You Must Know

By Gary V. Hawkins


It's time to start preparing yourself for soccer recruiting 2009. The fact is there are thousands of soccer players all across the country that share the dream of playing soccer at the college level. Some will make it to the college level, while others will come up short. The question is why? Why do some athletes make it to the college level, while others don't?
The very first thing you need to know about soccer recruiting 2009 is this: You must have the talent to play soccer at the college level. The competition level is very high at any division level in the college game. If you are struggling for playing time at the high school level, or just seeing average results, you may not have the talent to play at the next level.
Another problem may be that you play at a very small high school or a school that just isn't known for soccer. If you find yourself in that situation, you will have to take some steps to get your name and talents known by college coaches. If college coaches don't know you exist, you will never be recruited.
Are you relying on your coach to promote you during the soccer recruiting 2009 season? If you are, you could be making a huge mistake. Most high school coaches do not take an active interest in promoting players to colleges. Why? Many of them don't understand the recruiting and scholarship process themselves. They falsely assume if a player is good enough to play at some level of college soccer, the colleges will find them.
The biggest problem is that most high school athletes do not market and promote themselves to college coaches. If you have the talent to play at the college level, you must take the initiative to market and promote yourself during the soccer recruiting 2009 season. Think about any product you buy. At some point in time that product was new and nobody knew about it. It had to be marketed and promoted before you or anyone else could buy it. You must go through the same process for yourself. You must send letters and emails to college coaches and let them know about you and how you can help their program be successful.
If getting noticed during the soccer recruiting 2009 season is your dream, you can make it happen. You don't have to be a super star athlete that every college coach in America already knows about. You can simply be a very good player who becomes a super star at promoting and marketing yourself.
Gary Hawkins is a well known recruiting and athletic scholarships expert and the author of a popular 17-page free report titled

By Gary V. Hawkins