Soccer

Two Time Olympian, Brandi Chastain, on Helping to Guide Women in Soccer and in Life

LRT Sports and brandi Chastain discuss mental health during the pandemic, college recruiting, and advice from Brandi on getting outside of your comfort zone. If you should ever be reminiscing about women’s soccer, it’s a sure thing that this iconic soccer player will come up in conversation. You know whom I’m talking about, yes, Brandi

September 17, 2020 Hannah Russell

Pro Soccer Player Talks Probability of an Athlete in Junior College Going to a DI College

Kathellen Sousa is a professional soccer player who graduated from the University of Central Florida two years ago. Kathellen is originally from Sao Vincente, Brazil. She played her first two years in a JUCO at Monroe college, a DI school. In her freshman year, she started most of the games having amazing individual results. She

September 14, 2020

University of Rhode Island Women’s Soccer Coach, Megan Jessee, Talks How You Can Succeed

Megan Jessee is the head coach for the University of Rhode Island women’s soccer team. This is her first head coaching job, and she’s held the position for about three years. Before URI, she spent nine seasons as the goalie coach at Wake Forest. Coach Megan helped guide Wake Forest to the 2010 Atlantic Coast

July 27, 2020

Skidmore Women’s Soccer Coach, Lacey Largeteau, Talks being Creative with Your Recruiting Process

Lacey Largeteau is in her eighth season as head coach for Skidmore College Women’s Soccer and even had the pleasure of coaching our very own CEO, Keirsten Sires! Lacey has achieved a 53-53-10 overall record in her time as head coach at Skidmore and has led the team to two appearances in the NCAA tournament.

June 29, 2020

Franklin Pierce Head Women’s Soccer Coach, Jonathan Garbar | Get on the Radar of a Successful Coach

Coach Jonathan Garbar is the fourth head coach in Franklin Pierce’s program history. In 2018, Garbar led Franklin Pierce to a league-record eighth Northeast-10 Conference title, its first since 2006, with a 3-0 win over Assumption. Again in 2018, Garbar’s team reached a high ranking position at No. 7. The United Soccer Coaches poll ranked

May 25, 2020

UC Berkeley’s Pac-12 Head Women’s Soccer Coach, Neil McGuire, Kicks some Advice your Way

In the 13 seasons at Berkeley, Neil McGuire has led the California women’s soccer team to unprecedented success. Besides being a Liverpool native since the age of five, Coach McGuire brings a fresh perspective to the coaching world. McGuire loves to continually learn more about the game and appreciates what it has to offer. He

April 27, 2020

UNC Athletes | The Mental Stress & Effects of Injuries

With the physical demands of high school and college sports today, it is rare that an athlete makes it through their playing career without some sort of injury. For example, the NCAA reports that the overall injury rate in NCAA football is 8.1 injuries per 1,000 athlete exposures. This is with games and practices combined. There

January 20, 2020

When doing research in the recruiting process for my daughter I came across the LRT Sports website. I was immediately intrigued as this was another dimension of the recruiting process that many people don't even consider. My daughter and I could "short list" schools based on the education she was looking for, as well as the opportunity to play her sport. LRT Sports not only gave us pertinent information into the recruiting process with different interviews of coaches and players, it also gave us insight into current and/or former players' opinions on the coach of that school in her sport. We could use this information to re-prioritize my daughters list of schools based on this feedback. I have many friends that are, or will be, going through this process shortly and I highly recommend using LRT Sports as part of anyone's recruiting process.

Matt Crosson

Parent

The college process presents a myriad of challenges. Factor in athletics and it becomes even more daunting. Now, add the fact that you have zero experience with sports. What is a the mother of a college bound student-athlete to do? LRT Sports has truly lived up to its promise. It has kept "the college recruiting process honest and easy by providing first hand information about coaches, schools and the recruiting process." Their interviews with current students, coaches, and professional athletes have provided realistic guidance. I am much more informed because of LRT Sports! The coach ratings are the most helpful. LRT Sports interviews allow us to hear from students as to how the adults are impacting not only their athletic experience but also how they are helping to shape their adult self.

Maria Zachary

Parent

The C.A.L.C. was thrilled to have Keirsten Sires come and speak to us on multiple topics relevant to high school athletics today, including recruiting. Keirsten reached all of our students and left them with great strategies that will not only help on the fields, courts, and mats, but also in the game of recruiting. She was a true professional and delivered a wonderful message.

Gus Kalikas

Athletic Director at Arthur L. Johnson High School

Now that the recruiting process and the related stress is over, I wanted to thank you for your guidance. You did so much more than we had expected. Once you started the process by matching the best academic schools first, not the best sport programs, I knew you were the one. The way you laid out a timeline of contacting coaches, visits, and camps completely took any guesswork out of the plan for us. All of the student athletes that you put us in touch with gave us a look from the inside, and made us more comfortable knowing what was coming. Finally, using your website as a resource for knowing what to expect from different coaches based on former recruit reviews gave my son confidence before our meetings. There is no way we could have figured this out on our own, you really put us in a great position when decision time came.

Richard Andrzejewski

Parent

I think hearing from other athletes is very beneficial. To be able to learn from people’s mistakes, and to be able to have access to those voices is really helpful; especially voices that have been there and done that. It’s very important for people to have access to information that could benefit them, and in this case there are many voices that can help the next wave of athletes.

Troy Polamalu

University of Southern California | Pittsburgh Steelers

If you have something that’s going to spell [the recruiting process] out for you… it’s so valuable. I think what everyone at LRT Sports is doing to spread the word and help advocate and educate athletes on the recruitment process is incredible.

Brooke Cabrera

University of Maryland

Without question would have used LRT Sports. It would have probably been one of the most valuable tools that I could have had. If you want to know what these coaches are really like then I think this is the best tool out there. I’m really glad you are allowing recruits to have a resource like this moving forward.

The huddle

Two Time Olympian, Brandi Chastain, on Helping to Guide Women in Soccer and in Life

Pro Soccer Player Talks Probability of an Athlete in Junior College Going to a DI College

University of Rhode Island Women’s Soccer Coach, Megan Jessee, Talks How You Can Succeed

Skidmore Women’s Soccer Coach, Lacey Largeteau, Talks being Creative with Your Recruiting Process

Franklin Pierce Head Women’s Soccer Coach, Jonathan Garbar | Get on the Radar of a Successful Coach

UC Berkeley’s Pac-12 Head Women’s Soccer Coach, Neil McGuire, Kicks some Advice your Way

UNC Athletes | The Mental Stress & Effects of Injuries

Matt Crosson

Parent

Maria Zachary

Parent

Gus Kalikas

Athletic Director at Arthur L. Johnson High School

Richard Andrzejewski

Parent

Troy Polamalu

University of Southern California | Pittsburgh Steelers

Brooke Cabrera

University of Maryland

Will Yeatman

University of Maryland | Miami Dolphins, Houston Texans

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