{"id":19986,"date":"2023-06-15T15:52:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/?p=19986"},"modified":"2023-06-16T08:19:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T13:19:45","slug":"how-to-navigate-two-way-communication-with-college-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/how-to-navigate-two-way-communication-with-college-coaches\/","title":{"rendered":"How to navigate two-way communication with college coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">How to navigate two-way communication with college coaches<\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Editor\u2019s Note (June 15, 2023)<\/span>: This article was submitted by our partner, ScoutingZone, in an ongoing series of best practices for college recruiting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been reaching out to college coaches (and you should be!), it&#8217;s only been one-way communication up to now. Wondering what coaches are thinking on the other end? Is there interest? Are you on their radar? If <em>only<\/em> you could ask them some questions.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <strong>TODAY<\/strong> is the day coaches are finally allowed to communicate back to you.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind, June 15 does <strong>not<\/strong> define your recruiting journey. If you get a call, enjoy it! Keep an open mind. And if you don&#8217;t get a call, use it as motivation to do more. Don&#8217;t sit back and wait for them to come to you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>June 15 does not define your recruiting journey.<\/li>\n<li>While some players will receive calls, the majority of players won&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>For the majority of players, June 15 is the <strong>start<\/strong> of their journey.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t compare yourself to others; every player&#8217;s journey to college soccer looks different.<\/li>\n<li>Now that 2-way communication will be permitted, use it to your advantage and proactively pick up the phone!<\/li>\n<li>Ask questions, communicate and engage in dialogue.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t be afraid of hearing &#8220;no.&#8221; It&#8217;s part of the process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to navigate two-way communication with college coaches Editor\u2019s Note (June 15, 2023): This article was submitted by our partner, ScoutingZone, in an ongoing series of best practices for college recruiting. If you&#8217;ve been reaching out to college coaches (and<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/how-to-navigate-two-way-communication-with-college-coaches\/\"> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":18035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[31,32,93,19],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-19986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","category-partners-sponsors","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19986"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=19986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}