college id camps

an elite soccer ID Camp, which provides high school players the chance to compete in front of college coaches for potential recruitment, costs hundreds of dollars to participate in. the cost barrier prevents talented lower-income soccer players from being given a chance to be discovered by college coaches. additionally, elite college ID camps are mostly held far outside of cities, inaccessible to public transportation, meaning players like the young men and women we work with have no way of actually physically getting to a camp to compete.

there was a community need for lower-income student athletes in Washington, DC to be given the same opportunity to access this kind of showcase as their peers from families with greater resources. that’s why in 2018, we launched our DC College ID program. by hosting our DC College ID camp within walking distance of public transportation, bringing together coaches from local colleges and universities, providing participants with student-athlete resource packets, and offering the opportunity completely free of charge, we empowered our players to take a first step towards thinking about what it takes to continue their athletic and academic journeys at the next level. to date, we’ve hosted two boys ID camps and one girls ID camp, and are excited to continue to build the program to serve more boys and girls who deserve an opportunity.

several players who were identified at our DC College ID Camp are now student athletes at one of the schools that scouted the camps:

Christopher Garcia, PG Community College (Left, Center) and Mario Zelaya, Washington Adventist University (Right)