if i'm juggling school and my soccer events which should come first??

Question

i plan on going to college via soccer scholorship and makeing that my career but do i need the grades too??

Answer 1

Yes, you do. School comes first.

Even schools with a strong soccer program probably don't have a lot of $$ to dole out on totally athletic (soccer) scholarships. A friend of mine's daughter was an excellent soccer player and a good (but not excellent) student. They didn't have funds for soccer scholarship, but her grades were high enough to get her an academic scholarship and she also made the soccer team.

Schools want to see well-rounded students who have the ability to succeed at the college level. They don't want to invest time and money to train you and put you on their team only to have you flunk out after a semester or two.

Check out the schools you are looking at, and see what their admission requirements are (minimum GPA, minimum college exam score, etc.) and then hire a tutor, buckle down, do whatever you need to do to perform at that level. Your soccer coach should understand that school comes first, and if/when you are playing on a school team you will most likely be suspended if your grades aren't good enough. (Most schools I know have no pass/no play rules now.) If it's just a community or rec league team, then absolutely school comes first!

Answer 2

School ALWAYS comes first! Good luck with soccer but what if it doesn't pan out? A knee-injury could stop that cold. Nowadays it's more important than ever to be college-educated and the more degrees you have the better. I work for a huge corporation. I've been at my job for 31 years but in the company's eyes a college graduate with a degree is more qualified to supervise me than I am. I'm at the top of the union-job food-chain, but because I'm not a college graduate it would be extremely difficult for me to go in to management (to further my career, earn more money, etc.).

If you are successful at making soccer your career, that's great, but after you get too old to play effectively, you'll still have two or three decades left in which you can pursue another career. "Would you like to supersize that?" doesn't pay very well. Get your education, get a degree or two, so you won't be 45 years old, saying "welcome to McDonalds, may I take your order?"

Answer 3

God, same thing happened to me today. I'm a freshman, and I play goalie but also midfield & defense, and do well on the field. I only made JV this year, while the rest of the 3 players on my club team (we're an elite level team) made varsity. I hardly even got a chance to try out since they assumed I sucked on the field and could only play goalie. I've been playing both field and goalie since U-8, and even my trainer (who coaches a college men's team) told me I have great potential. My club coach pretty much screams at me about how much I suck. My high school coaches decided to do a scrimmage against our own team the other day and they decided to play me on center mid. After I came off, they all told me how great I did. Today though, we had a friendly and I played the last 10 minutes of the 80 minute game. Even the kids who could hardly dribble a ball got more time than me. My one teammate for both HS and club has sort of a "family legacy" where everyone in her family is amazing at soccer, but she really lacks. The others girls, I don't even know what happened... But I've been thinking about this all day, and I think you should just rough out the season, speak to the coach again, and if he doesn't listen, who cares? It's not like he's getting you anywhere in your soccer career. If you don't like it this season, don't come back. It's their loss, and soon enough they'll see your skills and kick themselves for not putting you in. Every minute you do get on the field though, work your a** off. I feel like I'm in the same boat as you, I feel like sh*t when everyone else goes in except for me. It's sad that I've gotten used to it even though I KNOW I'm much better. Sorry this is long, but I'm kinda glad somebody else is going through the same thing I am. I wish biased people didn't exist, but sadly they do so let's show them who's really boss.

Answer 4

If you don't keep up your grades, you won't be allowed to play soccer or anything else! So school would have to come first or you won't need a soccer scholarship cause you won't ever get to college.

Answer 5

Hard to say-
if your really positive you can go somewhere with a career as soccer- go for that. Don't put a whole pile of money into it, then it turns out you don't go anywhere, leaving you to work at McDonalds.
Unless your sure of it, you've heard it from your coach that your going to get somewhere, Go to school.

Answer 6

Yes,I'm prety sure you at least need to go to college for 2 years so grades do count.I think that school should come first even though you may not wan't it to.

Answer 7

You clearly need to maintain your education. Because without your education then there is no soccer scholarship.

Answer 8

If you do too bad in school they'll pit you on academic probotion(?) and you won't be able to play soccer. There goes your scholarship.

Answer 9

If your good enough Just play footy, how many footy players look depressed?
Come to England & play in the premiership :)

Answer 10

Equal I think,at least as long as you need the grades.