Your soccer high school athlete and you made the decision that you want soccer play the sport you love in college. You have big game and big grades and you're looking for ways to promote yourself to college coaches, realizing you need to be seen to be offered a scholarship.
Let me first suggest that a video can do more for you than a coach or scout watching you in person in some cases. It's all about the content and not so much about an expensive professionally done video.
The opening should be some text giving vital information such as your name, your high school, if the video is a championship game, your GPA, your SAT or ACT and your clearinghouse number. The next thing on the video is a brief intro by you in uniform of no more then 20 seconds. The intro should show you friendly and smiling saying something catchy to set you apart and get the coaches attention. The next thing is a brief recommendation from you coach of no more then 30 seconds. The comments from your coach are HUGH, because a college coach will always want an assessment from you high school coach. The content of what your coach expresses to a college coach could make or break a deal. The next thing you want to include is some game highlights. Several clips of you at your very best. The next thing you want is two full games. This is vital in sports like football, basketball and soccer or any team sport for that matter. The closing is the last chance you have to get pertinent info in front of a college coach. I suggest you include your name again, email address, and your phone number. If you do a good in getting all this info on your promo video a college coach will have all the info he or she needs to offer you a scholarship.
You have a great video and now you are ready for it's distribution. WARNING! Do not just choose a bunch of schools to send video to, and here is why. You first must contact a college coach and let them know you are interested in attending that college. There are some things you need to be aware of when considering sending video out. You need to know that coaches team has a need at the position you play and is recruiting to fill that soccer If there is no need, you just wasted time and money sending your video to that particular school. After talking with many college coaches over many years I have been told more than once that videos get cataloged on if a coach requested the athletes video or not. In other words they have a list of names with reference numbers attached and if your name is not on the list your video never gets looked at. You have to understand that all college coaches are on information overload. Don't forget to put label on outside or video or DVD. The last thing is make sure you are contacting coaches at the level you can play at. Don't waste your time sending to D1 if you are not sure you are a D1 prospect. Get an athletic assessment from you high school coach.
Authored by: Tony Passarella - Sports Recruiting Coach
