Massachusetts Soccer Academy
Massachusetts Soccer Academy ... much more than just training ...
College Opportunities for Student Athletes magazine, since 1991, written with several hundred college coaches, specifically to help subscribers get to college and on the team ... often with full scholarships.
Summer camps are, in our opinion, the best way to get to know the college coach you may some day play for. Coaches use camps to train and evaluate future members of their teams. Summer camps provide an ideal environment for both student athlete and coach to thoroughly prepare and improve the quality of the recruiting decision.
For these important reasons we publish our book, The Best Soccer Camps and dedicate the Spring Edition of our magazine, College Opportunities for Student Athletes to detailed reviews of only 100 summer camp operators, nationwide.
Massachusetts Soccer Academy ... much more than just training ...
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UMASS Amherst is a sports-friendly school that has been playing great soccer since 1930 ... and that was even before your parents were born!
A “State Ivy,” UMass offers an Ivy League quality education for about half their cost; State Ivys include Virginia, Michigan, UC Berkeley, and UNC.
Founded in 1863 in the historic city of Amherst ... rated by The New York Times among America's Ten Best College Towns ... in the beautiful Massachusetts country side ... UMASS provides the best of the traditional New England educational experience to 18,000 undergraduates.
Serious players in California, Texas and Florida listen up! The beach and ski slopes are less than 2 hours away, and top student athletes are welcome ... over 100 have earned All American honors here.
Head Men's Coach Sam Koch, has been fortunate to work in some top college environments, including Stanford, Brown and Boston College. Sam is the winningest coach in UMASS history ... in 2007: NCAA College Cup, National Semifinalist and Atlantic 10 Champs.
When you attend The Massachusetts Soccer Academy, you will experience the philosophy that has earned him three Atlantic Ten Coach of The Year Awards; rather than playing to any one individual, Sam teaches the team concept, demonstrating that the whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.
Editor Note: Since 1991 we have delivered publications that create a meeting point for serious student athletes and dedicated college coaches. As parents of student athletes we know how difficult it is to decide which programs will be right for your teenage player. We know how parents hope that the college coach, a person they hardly know, will become a good surrogate parent for their son or daughter. Yes, Mom and Dad, the coach you choose will spend more time with and have a greater influence on your son or daughter than you will in the upcoming four years. Choose wisely.
Coach Sam Koch is exactly the kind of person we would LOVE to see our son playing for. Yeah, we have favorites, because we are human and because we are parents. Sam is exactly the kind of person that we created our publications to help you find. Get to know him at his Spring and Summer camps, and you'll know why we are so proud of him and his Minutemen.
Information and registration: www.masssocceracademy.com
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Summer Camps: Much More Than Training
Every camp here has been selected in our Best Soccer Camps book. The current edition of our Best Soccer Camps book contains only 100 selected camps from the more than 500 summer soccer camps.
Is this approach working? When have you seen so many camp ads and articles, anywhere, ever? Think about this. We talk to more serious soccer families and more truly dedicated college coaches, in one year, than anyone. And we help readers find the good camps that can affect their college futures, and their lives.
Now, consider what serious players do for top camps. Competitive players make the camp a success, elevate the level of play, and challenge other players. They stimulate the coaching staff. Everyone learns more and has more fun. And sometimes, a player catches the eye of a coach because, "Those campers were working so hard they looked like college players." ... the rest ... perhaps, is history!
Readers refer to our Student Athlete magazine as the "Consumer Reports" of College-Bound sports. We are proud to have earned your respect. When we compile our Special Campers Issues we invite only camps recommended in our Best Camps book to advertise. We've done our homework. All of these camps are good!
As parents of serious student athletes, we know how expensive, yet important, good camp selection is. Add the camp's cost, airfare, new clothes, new equipment, spending money, telephone, ground transportation and family gifts ... a residential camp’s cost can total $1000!
What are the alternatives, once you've learned how to how play, for getting noticed by the college coaches?
The three most important things to do, to increase your chances of playing sports in college are:
1. Participate in the ODP
2. Win state cup with your club team
3. Attend camp at the college where you hope to play
Camp selection is the only event YOU can control. By the end of the camp, both you and the coach will know if his college is in your future. If the news is not good, ask him to recommend colleges where you can play, and to use him as a reference.
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Bob Collins, Editor
Student Athlete Scholarships Foundation
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(561) 498-1546
http://www.student-athlete.net/
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