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Recent Posts on College Recruiting
Will New NIL Rules Soon Allow High School Soccer Players to Profit?
Will the new NCAA rules around name, image, and likeness (NIL) trickle down to high school sports?
What Soccer ID Camps Should Your Child Attend?
Learn how to decide which college soccer ID camp to attend and the differences between college ID camps.
The College Soccer Recruiting Timeline
When should high school athletes start thinking about college soccer recruiting?
D1 College Soccer: Expectations vs. Reality
What does it take to play college soccer? What does a typical day look like for a student-athlete?
How to Make A College Soccer Highlight Video for a Winger
Learn the key factors to create a successful winger recruiting video for college coaches.
How to Make A College Soccer Highlight Video for a Striker
Learn the key factors to create a successful attacking center midfielder recruiting video for college coaches.
How to Make Your Attacking Center Midfielder Highlight Video
Learn the key factors to create a successful attacking center midfielder recruiting video for college coaches.
Grow Your Soccer Club with Trace Video Resources
Resources for soccer clubs to use Trace video to build their brands and sell the advantages to recruits.
How to Make Your Defensive Center Midfielder Highlight Video
Learn the key factors to create a successful defensive center midfielder recruiting video for college coaches.
How to Make Your Center Back Highlight Video
Learn the key factors to create a successful center back recruiting video for college coaches.
How to Make Your Outside Back Highlight Video
Learn the key factors to create a successful outside back recruiting video for college coaches.
How to Make Your Goalkeeper Highlight Video
Learn the key factors to create a successful recruiting video for college coaches.
How One Player Used Her Trace iD to Get Recruited at a Division I School
See how one player used her Trace iD to save time and impress college coaches.
How to Use Social Media for College Soccer Recruiting
How to use social media to communicate with college soccer coaches to get recruited.
Recruiting Tips: The Trace Do’s and Dont’s for Playing College Soccer
Tips and strategies for college soccer recruiting, creating highlight videos, and more.
How MN Eclipse Uses Soccer Video in Newsletters to Help Players Get Recruited
How one youth soccer club built a newsletter with Trace video to help their players get recruited.
Top 5 Things College Coaches Want to See in Soccer Highlight Videos
Here are some key items that coaches consider important in soccer highlight videos.
Embed Your Club’s Latest Goals on Your Website
Trace enables clubs to embed their teams’ latest goals on their websites to highlight memorable soccer moments.
Recording Soccer Games to Overcome the Division I Recruiting Dead Period
How to use soccer game video recordings to give yourself an edge in the college recruiting process.
6 Tips for Creating Soccer Highlight Videos for College Recruiters
Advice from former athlete that currently works at a Power 5 school’s athletic department about creating an exceptional highlight video.
Soccer Video Editing Tip for College Recruiting
Taking video editing off my plate has been a huge time-saver, but it also unlocked a hidden advantage I wasn’t expecting.
Attracting Soccer College Recruiters to your Game Film
For soccer players who need to make their recruitment reels, here are some pointers that will catch a college recruiter’s attention.
Three Youth Development Tracks to Prepare For College Recruitment
Finding the right youth development soccer program can infinitely increase your chances of being seen by college soccer coaches and significantly improve your skills.
Soccer Recruiting Advice for Future Graduating Classes
Future graduating classes will write a new book on being recruited to play soccer in college. Each class will have an opportunity to take advantage of this new age.
How She Landed a Division I Soccer Scholarship with only Game Video
There weren’t many opportunities left for college coaches to see Katie in her senior year. So Coach Richards turned to soccer game film for recruitment.
College Coach says Video is more Important to Recruiting for Soccer post-COVID
The world has changed, and if you plan on being recruited for soccer, then video has never been more essential than it is now.
Are College Soccer ID Camps Worth it?
College Soccer ID camps are an essential part of the college soccer recruiting process. In many ways, they are overtaking club games.
Soccer Recruiting Advice for Freshmen and Sophomores
Are you starting the soccer recruitment process for your High School player? Here are 5 pieces of advice from parents all around the country.
How Many Soccer Moments Do I Send to a College Coach?
10 to 20 moments. The first 5 moments should be your best moments as a player. The remainder of your moments should be organized by theme.
The Player's Guide to Emailing College Coaches
For most players, kicking off the recruitment process starts with an email. When you’re ready to start a conversation with a college recruiter, you’ll want to make sure you are putting your best foot forward. Here is a quick guide to crafting an email to a coach or recruiter.
4 Don'ts to Get Recruited for College Soccer
College recruiters want to hear from you, not your mom or your dad. Yes, you should absolutely take your parent’s advice or help if they are willing to offer it, but the communication (email, text, phone call) should come from you, the player, not the parents.
5 Do’s to Get Recruited for College Soccer
You have a dream school (or dream schools) you’d love to play for in college; let’s call that dream school College T. Unless your dream school has a relationship with your club or coach, or you play for a top ten nationally recognized ECNL or DA team, your game film is the only way that you’ll get your foot in the door.