Emmanuel College Open House
Saturday, October 24, 2009 :: 12:30 p.m.
Jean Yawkey Center, Emmanuel College

Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to:

• Tour our beautiful 17-acre campus
• Meet with current students athlete, coaches and professors
• Learn about academic programs and playing soccer
• Review admission and financial aid procedures
Watch a game

vs. St Joseph College of Maine  3:00 PM
We play an aggressive attacking style with zonal defending

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Can't make it? Attend our November Open House on Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 9:30 a.m.  This is our Recruit Luncheon.. Meet other recruits and current players

Contact enroll@emmanuel.edu or 617-735-9715 with any questions.

I encourage you to come and visit our beautiful 17-acre campus in the heart of Boston. By experiencing the Emmanuel community first-hand, you'll see for yourself all that Emmanuel has to offer.

Open House

Saturday, October 24 12:30 PM

Please register at http://www.emmanuel.edu/Undergraduate_Admissions/Visit_Us/Schedule_a_Tour.html

You will get an opportunity not only to meet with me but with some of your future teammates.

We have a game at 3:00 PM against St.Joseph College of Maine. They are currently in first place in our conference.  It should be a very good game. They were ranked 1st in the preseason and we were ranked 2nd.  Last year we defeated them 3-1.

The game will give you and idea of our style of play and my coaching style.

Once you register, please let me know.

To make the women soccer team, you must be a serious student.  If you aren’t interested in attending and excelling in your classes, stop reading.  If you are or plan to, Emmanuel College might be the college where you want to play soccer. Our student-athletes are just that, student-athletes, maintaining a 3.0 GPA is a primary objective of the team. On the soccer field, I am just as demanding.  You must play hard, you must play to win, and you must play to make yourself and your teammates better every day.  If that is not for you, I understand, look elsewhere, but I don’t consider that too much to ask.  Our players play hard, they play to win, and they have an unbelievable amount of fun doing both.  If you play soccer at Emmanuel College you will get better, and you will have the most fun of your playing career. Emmanuel College recruits players based on:  Positive energy Positive attitude ·         Work ethic Technical and Tactical Speed Can accepts strong criticism Self-motivator Pre-season camp begins in late August (on the earliest NCAA legal practice opportunity). Saints players will tell you that their camp experience is one of the most enjoyable and exciting parts of their education at Emmanuel. With only one week from the beginning of our pre-season to our first match, it is important that we begin teaching and integrating new players right from the start.  It is critical that we develop chemistry on and off the field. Players are evaluated on individual skills and athleticism, but just important is each player’s ability to adapt to the college game and be a positive part of our team.  We believe in providing the opportunity to compete to every committed student athlete. Saints players will tell you that women who come to Emmanuel fit and excited to learn have a terrific experience during pre-season and on our team. If you are interested in Emmanuel College Women's Soccer complete the athletic questionnaire on the web site http:\\www.goecsaints.com\recruiting\soccer.html  send a schedule of your games or tournaments that you will be playing in. You can also send video DVD of your games, arrange for a campus visit and experience what Emmanuel College is all about! Once you are here on campus you will really enjoy it! If you would like more information about the Emmanuel College women’s soccer program, please email at:currie@emmanuel.edu.

To make the women soccer team, you must be a serious student.  If you aren’t interested in attending and excelling in your classes, stop reading.  If you are or plan to, Emmanuel College might be the college where you want to play soccer. Our student-athletes are just that, student-athletes, maintaining a 3.0 GPA is a primary objective of the team. On the soccer field, I am just as demanding.  You must play hard, you must play to win, and you must play to make yourself and your teammates better every day.  If that is not for you, I understand, look elsewhere, but I don’t consider that too much to ask.  Our players play hard, they play to win, and they have an unbelievable amount of fun doing both.  If you play soccer at Emmanuel College you will get better, and you will have the most fun of your playing career. Emmanuel College recruits players based on:  Positive energy Positive attitude ·         Work ethic Technical and Tactical Speed Can accepts strong criticism Self-motivator Pre-season camp begins in late August (on the earliest NCAA legal practice opportunity). Saints players will tell you that their camp experience is one of the most enjoyable and exciting parts of their education at Emmanuel. With only one week from the beginning of our pre-season to our first match, it is important that we begin teaching and integrating new players right from the start.  It is critical that we develop chemistry on and off the field. Players are evaluated on individual skills and athleticism, but just important is each player’s ability to adapt to the college game and be a positive part of our team.  We believe in providing the opportunity to compete to every committed student athlete. Saints players will tell you that women who come to Emmanuel fit and excited to learn have a terrific experience during pre-season and on our team. If you are interested in Emmanuel College Women's Soccer complete the athletic questionnaire on the web site http:\\www.goecsaints.com\recruiting\soccer.html  send a schedule of your games or tournaments that you will be playing in. You can also send video DVD of your games, arrange for a campus visit and experience what Emmanuel College is all about! Once you are here on campus you will really enjoy it! If you would like more information about the Emmanuel College women’s soccer program, please email at:currie@emmanuel.edu.

To make the women soccer team, you must be a serious student.  If you aren’t interested in attending and excelling in your classes, stop reading.  If you are or plan to, Emmanuel College might be the college where you want to play soccer. Our student-athletes are just that, student-athletes, maintaining a 3.0 GPA is a primary objective of the team. On the soccer field, I am just as demanding.  You must play hard, you must play to win, and you must play to make yourself and your teammates better every day.  If that is not for you, I understand, look elsewhere, but I don’t consider that too much to ask.  Our players play hard, they play to win, and they have an unbelievable amount of fun doing both.  If you play soccer at Emmanuel College you will get better, and you will have the most fun of your playing career. Emmanuel College recruits players based on:  Positive energy Positive attitude ·         Work ethic Technical and Tactical Speed Can accepts strong criticism Self-motivator Pre-season camp begins in late August (on the earliest NCAA legal practice opportunity). Saints players will tell you that their camp experience is one of the most enjoyable and exciting parts of their education at Emmanuel. With only one week from the beginning of our pre-season to our first match, it is important that we begin teaching and integrating new players right from the start.  It is critical that we develop chemistry on and off the field. Players are evaluated on individual skills and athleticism, but just important is each player’s ability to adapt to the college game and be a positive part of our team.  We believe in providing the opportunity to compete to every committed student athlete. Saints players will tell you that women who come to Emmanuel fit and excited to learn have a terrific experience during pre-season and on our team. If you are interested in Emmanuel College Women's Soccer complete the athletic questionnaire on the web site http:\\www.goecsaints.com\recruiting\soccer.html  send a schedule of your games or tournaments that you will be playing in. You can also send video DVD of your games, arrange for a campus visit and experience what Emmanuel College is all about! Once you are here on campus you will really enjoy it! If you would like more information about the Emmanuel College women’s soccer program, please email at:currie@emmanuel.edu.

• Strong Character
• Strong work ethic
• Positive attitude
• Can accepts strong criticism
• Self Motivator
• Technical and Tactical Speed

The first thing that we have to do when discussing this particular topic, is we have to dispel the number one myth and that is that D1, D2 and D3 correspond directly with the quality of the play in the particular division.

In other words a lot of people seem to think that DI by virtue of being number one is best, D2 would be second best and D3 would be third best or awful by some accounts. But really that’s not the case.
 
The second thing to really take into consideration is what are the real differences between these three divisions and they really fall into 2 kind of categories.

The first is of course scholarships and this gets a lot of attention because athletic scholarships are a pretty hot topic, a pretty neat thing, you know something that people really like to discuss a lot.  Division one and two teams have scholarships, athletic scholarships. Division three teams don’t have scholarships athletic scholarships. However an interesting statistic that you should know is that the average division three athlete is receiving on average more financial aid through a variety of grant programs, loans, various awards than the average division one player. That’s a pretty fascinating statistic. As far as scholarships in division one go just because a team is allowed scholarships doesn’t mean it has all the scholarships that it is allotted.

The NCAA allows a certain number of scholarships per team and not every team necessarily has fully funded all of those scholarships. So you may be allowed ten scholarships for a given team and a given sport. But the athletic department may only have enough money to fund three or four in many cases and indeed this is the case. Many teams, many Division I teams while they are allowed to have scholarships don’t have the full allotment funded. So that’s another thing to take into consideration.

The two main issues that are the real differences between the Divisions, scholarships is certainly one. And the second one is the time commitment.

And this is something that really should not be overlooked because it really gets to the core of what it is that you want your college experience to be like. Athletics in Division I should be considered basically a full time job. Athletes spend five, six hours a day doing various activities associated with the team whether that’s lifting weights, doing fitness work, going to the trainer practicing, traveling to games, playing in games. And they do this year round.

By contrast in Division III for example, the time commitment is much less. Now during the season it’s no doubt very intense in division three but the off season is much more restricted. The NCAA has very clearly restricted the amount of time that division three athletes can spend with their team.

The effect that this has is that it dramatically changes the kind of college experience that you have. So if you’re playing sports in Division III, you will find that you have more time to pursue other college activities. Whether that may be student government newspapers or other student groups. And this is certainly something that a lot of people like to have. They like to broaden their horizons a bit when they get to school. Of course there are athletes who really want to go to school and focus on playing sports and going to school and for them Division I maybe a better bet.

So the bottom line is, before you just say reflexively that you want to play Division I because it’s the best, forget about that myth, that idea that Division I is necessarily the best, because to be quite frank, many, there are many top Division II and Division III teams that could beat many division one teams. It‘s not necessarily the rule and certainly the best D1 teams are usually the best teams in the country. But the quality in D3 and D2 is very high.

So forget the myth that D1 is necessarily the best, and also take into the consideration the real issue, the scholarships issue as well as the time commitment and then you’ll have a more realistic sense of what the whole D1, D2, D3 hierarchy is actually about.