Weeks after his high school graduation, Seth Sinovic took a summer road trip with his older brother. They visited a handful of colleges all across the country, where Sinovic would meet with men’s soccer head coaches.
He had grown tired of waiting for the recruiters to come to him. So he traveled to them, making brief sales pitches with the hopes of landing a Division I scholarship. The response was quite predictable. “We already have something lined up, but, you know, we’ll be sure to call if something pops up.”
Thirteen years later, sitting at a coffee shop in Kansas City, Sinovic shares this story with a literal shrug of his shoulders.