College Showcase Soccer Tournaments

The first thing to remember about college showcase soccer tournaments is that, no matter how well-run the event is, how well you play, and which coaches are present, simply showing up and playing is not nearly enough to have every division 1 coach in the nation beating a path to your door.

College recruiting has become such a complex and competitive matter in recent years that an entire cottage industry has grown up around it. There are many things you need to do to get noticed by a college coach, and countless companies offering to help you for a (sometimes not very) small fee. As in all commercial transactions, the buyer should be aware of certain pitfalls.

There are certain things you need to ask before determining which college showcase tournaments to attend.

First would be, “Which coaches are actually attending?” Notice we said coaches, not schools. Simply being told that a certain school is going to be there may not be enough. Is that school going to be represented by the head coach or by an assistant coach? The assistant coach is not necessarily a bad thing. Many head coaches rely heavily on input from a trusted assistant when making recruiting decisions. But others don’t, and send along a junior assistant just to show their face because the head coach doesn’t have time to attend herself.

You need to know that the coaches who are scouting a certain event really do have the power to recruit you if they like what they see.

And there are loads of other issues to consider when looking into and playing in college showcase soccer tournaments. We’ll look into all of them here.

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