It is most often the assistant coach that leads the recruiting. Get their numbers from your coaches and if your of age that they can talk to you, reach out and express your interest. They go to many tournaments and you can offer to meet them briefly at one of the tournaments/games they may be going to. Be fast, counter hard, play high energy defense and be a positive meber of the team on and off the bench (they watch it all). Have your coaches help as well as much as they are able. If a 4 year isnt interested, get a with GWC or one of the better JC programs. One of my sons went that way and ended up his last two years at a 4 year and had fun. My brother played two JC years and that was a wrap and is happy. It all ends quickly after high school, so cherish those last months/years.
There is dialogue in the 2026 commits thread about how hard it is for goalies this year. I know before roster limits you would see a lot of teams with 4-5 goalies, but that luxury is not there anymore. Will teams carry 3? I know teams could designate players from 2025 to not count towards their cap so maybe that impact starts with 2026.
I have not had confirmation on the true rules of the designated athletes, as far as who was able to be designated.. One school I know of only designated the exact kids that would have been impacted. This gave them 4 extra slots this year and since 2 are second years this year and 2 are third years, if they stay all 4 years, they can have 4 extra next year as well and 2 extra the following year. If one of those players redshirts due to injury or other factors that would give them one more year before the hard 24 cap. With all that said, confusing as it is, I would guess we see 4 goalies this next year and maybe one more year before teams drop to 3. However, the goalie being such a critical part of the team and maybe 5 percent of recruited goalies actually being ready to play, i could see some teams continue to keep 4 and only have 20 field players.
would be pretty tough to carry less than 3 goalies
yes injuries happen very often, hips, knees, concussions.
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Needless to say, admission policies are identical for domestic and international players, and international athletes who play in the United States are often just as academically inclined as local players, if not more. That was not my point. My point is that the academic bar becomes higher when standardized tests are reintroduced. This makes it more difficult to recruit elite players, both international and domestic, into Ivy League schools and other universities that once again require standardized testing as part of the admission process.
The reason lies in grade inflation, which allows more athletes to clear the Academic Index bar. To illustrate, at the Ivies the GPA threshold for recruited athletes is about 3.6 to 3.7 on a 4.0 scale. It is surprising, but about 30 percent of high school students today have a GPA higher than 3.6, which is roughly an A minus. The equivalent SAT benchmark for a 3.6 GPA, based on the Academic Index, is a score of 1440. Only about 4 percent of SAT test takers reach 1440 or above. In other words, when test scores are not included in the Academic Index, around 30 percent of students clear the bar. When tests are included, fewer than 10 percent clear the bar. Since the Academic Index is calculated as two thirds test scores and one third GPA, this creates a much smaller pool of players that Ivy League coaches and other schools using the AI can recruit from.
This applies equally to domestic and international athletes. My second point, which is more debatable, is that earning a 1440 on an English-based standardized test is somewhat more challenging for international athletes compared to domestic ones, especially when contrasted with the relative accessibility of achieving a 3.6 GPA.
The larger takeaway is that Ivy coaches, and perhaps Stanford as well, will face greater challenges in recruiting elite players because of this added constraint. This dynamic helps explain the recent rise of Princeton and its ability to bring in more top-level players, both domestic and international.
I would argue if Brown plays their cards right, they could stand to benefit too. They only started recruiting more internationals because the university made the move to need blind for domestic and international applicants. Their work is still cut out for them, but Felix has done a lot to get that entire program supported financially