College Coaches

Players: If you are a college recruitable player make sure you read important tips from California Cup below on how to prepare yourself for the recruitment process. These are tips we've accumulated through many years of working with college scouts and coaches who come to our tournament to scout potential recruits.

Teams: College coaches will have what they need at our tournament so you don’t need to bring all those printed brochures.

College Coaches: California Cup provides all college coaches with a booklet of player rosters for all teams in recruitable age groups. This booklet is an invaluable scouting and recruiting tool. Make sure you register with California Cup to ensure you can receive this booklet, as we will not give it out with out proper credentials.

Register and obtain a UserID and Password

PLAYERS

California Cup now offers an exciting tool for college recruiting: Player Profiles on-line with connection to college coaches. You can create an on-line player profile, which is printable for your own use. Also college coaches may view your profile on-line as well.

Make sure you enter your SAT scores and GPA figures in your compiled profile.

Providing this service will help you be seen! And don't worry: your information will be held strictly confidential and only verified college coaches will have access to your profile on-line in the California Cup system.

You need to have your coach create a User ID and Passoword from your teams application section before you can create your online profile.

Player Profile Login

College recruiting tips

Players

1. Prepare for college as best as you can:
2. Get good grades
3. Get as high an SAT score as you can
4. Take the tests more than once if you have to,
5. Make sure you register with a clearing house, and
6. Build a high school resume that shows you would be an asset to the school you wish to attend.
7. Investigate colleges in advance. You don’t want to go to a school just to play soccer, and the schools don’t want you there if you don’t fit.

You should:

• Find a school with major courses of study that interest you,
• Be able to make the school’s GPA and SAT requirements or come pretty close to it,
• Make sure you like the campus, city, and area for the school, and
• See if you like the soccer team, its coach, and style of play.
• Narrow your search down to 10 schools by the junior year. Write those 10 schools and let the soccer coach know you are interested in their school. Send them a player profile. Our on line system will allow you to do this all electronically. Let the coach know you will be playing in the California Cup Soccer Tournament and give them your team’s tournament schedule.
• Update those coaches during your junior and senior years as your SAT scores come in, when your tournament schedules change, and when important items can be added to your high school and soccer resume.
• As soon as you make up your mind about school, let all the coaches that have shown interest in you know, so they may put their attention elsewhere.

TEAMS

• Make sure you have player profiles and are prepared to let college coaches have them.
• Compile a list of schools your players are interested in, and get your team schedule to the soccer coaches at those schools.
• Be prepared to hand out player profiles to college coaches, but instead of carrying around a large booklet of profiles at tournaments, have a roster to hand out.
• Take the coaches’ business cards and mail them the full booklet later.