1. Get your Name out there

If the college does not know your name you will not get recruited.

2. Classes Come First

You absolutely can not under any circumstances can you cut class for practice, school comes first then soccer.

3. Speed of Play

High School soccer speed of play is a lot slower than college. In college, we mainly play one or two touch at most because if you do not then you would likely get tackled hard.

4. No one is guaranteed a starting position.

No matter what year you are in you are not guaranteed a starting position, the job of the coach is bring players in that are better than you.

5. No Parents

It is now your responsibility to do your work, cook, and clean. You no longer have your parents help with that so you have to do it on your own.

6. You are on your own.

It is up to you to find the balance between school and your sport that you are in.

7. Adjustment period.

No matter if you are playing a sport or not there is an adjustment period that everybody goes through when they enter college.

8. Yellow Card

In high school if you get a yellow card you leave the field for a certain amount of time, well in college if you get a yellow card you stay on the field no matter what.

9. Study Hours

If your school has this for athletics than you must do study hours. That is when you go to a place and check in and out for your study hours.

10. Family

The more you hang out with your teammates the more you become family. Everybody becomes very close together both on an off the field.