College Soccer Recruiting Emails | Do’s and Don’ts

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Timestamps:
0:00-0:39 – Introduction
0:39-4:18 – The Terrible Email
4:18-8:45 – The Pretty Good Email
8:45-14:52 – The Perfect Email
14:52-20:59 – How to Make the Perfect Email FAST

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Name: Matt Sheldon
Age: 31
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Weight: 170 lbs
Nationality: USA
Job: Professional Soccer Player
Current Team: Detroit City FC
Current League: USL Championship (USA 2nd Tier)
Last Team: Hartford Athletic
Previous Teams: Charleston Battery, FC Tulsa, Tulsa Roughnecks, Waterside Karori FC, Saint Louis FC, Orange County Blues, SG Kinzenbach
Position: RB/LB/RM
College: UC Davis (D1)

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39 thoughts on “College Soccer Recruiting Emails | Do’s and Don’ts”

  6. @KarsonLi-tm9es

    Hey Matt, Love your video! Can you upload a video about what we should say when the coaches invite us to the ID camp in emails, and what we should say after the ID camp to the coaches, both in person and online?. Appreciate it!

  11. @Sandy_Sandoval

    Thanks brother. My son is currently playing UPSL and USL Academy. This is what info we need to make sure communicate effectively. Thank you. Also passed this along to my soccer team. 🫡

  14. @shinybernard0455

    As a wanna be coach in Europe, it really surprises me that the scouting process is basically carried by the players rather than by the teams.
    I guess USA is just way too big for teams to scout by themselves

  20. @magamaga1827

    It's amazing how the Internet changed things. When I went thru the recruiting process back in the early 90's pre Internet, it was all word of mouth and connections. Maybe a letter here and there. You really only got seen if you played at a popular high school, which I did, or for ODP or a high level club team, which I also did. But even then, everything was so damn secretive. There was never contacting a coach and telling him your sked or things like that. You just sort of hoped you had coaches coming down to the games and/or hoped your coach could "sell" you as a player. I was a year behind in school (had lived in Ireland as a kid and school was different there), so when I was a junior in high school that's when my team (all seniors) were being recruited. I had to wait another year and hope the coaches would come back to see me play. My senior year in high school, I was club teammates with 7 players all playing for the same D1 college in the NY area… team so I knew I could play that level. My teammates literally had to invite the head coach to come watch me play a few games…and that's how I got my offer. Wasn't until January of my senior year in high school. My college was a nationally ranked team, too. Lol. Crazy. Absolutely no sophisticated recruiting process or network in place back then, just all connections. While nowadays technology is a great thing to have, you have 100x more competition for that spot on the team. My former school now has players from all over the world and very few locals like myself. So in many ways, it has changed for the worse.

  27. @AnatoleLevallois

    As always, your content is incredible, Matt! Based on my experience as a former player with D1 offers who switched to coaching at Pima CC, a NJCAA powerhouse that won the 2021 national championship, and then at the University of Charleston, one of the best D2 programs in the country which was receiving hundreds of emails a week. I have a few insights to share from my experience.

    Your perfect email is obviously better than 95% of the ones players send. However, I noticed that most coaches I talked to (including my colleagues at UC) often don't read the email but only if the player included our name to look at the highlight. Then, we directly click on the highlight video. If we're not interested within the first 30 seconds, we won't even read the email but will send a generic response saying we appreciate the effort but won't be moving forward.

    Additionally, we prefer short emails with fewer than 10 lines, including our name and the name of our school. The rest of the personalization is secondary. However, what you mentioned about highlighting facts like goals, assists, or winning tournaments is crucial for getting one of the coaches to watch your highlight video at least but from my experience if you send an email to all the coaches with our name and the school, your highlight will be watched at one moment or another (may be different for a top 20 D1 school).

  34. @dansugardude

    I'm clean-cut and have nothing to hide but I still keep my social media private! The same is true for my brother and his wife. They're very professional, very focused on their careers and their lives, and they still keep social media private.

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