The Queen City

Keagan and I are on the road again today looking at prospective schools with soccer programs. Today’s first two schools that we visited were in The Queen City, Charlotte. 

Stop #1: UNC Charlotte

This school was beautiful and large - so large a bus system and train system can be utilized to get students to class or downtown to watch a game. We headed to the soccer field and we were surprised to see athletes training. This campus was perfect in my eyes - even with the round about - but it was too big for Keagan.

Stop #2 was a small, very small, D3 school in the heart of downtown Charlotte. The campus was closed and so small we couldn’t even drive into the entrance to walk it. However, it backed up to the Panthers stadium and training facilities. The location was perfect for a pro sports fan because soccer, football, and basketball games were all within walking distance. Keagan wants a small school, but this school, in my opinion, was too small. 

Stop #3 and our last school to visit this weekend was a D2 school just outside of Charlotte. Keagan will spend the next five days here playing soccer in front of ten college coaches. Yesterday he commented, “Five days of nothing but eating, sleeping, and playing soccer. I can’t wait!” 

Keagan is settled into his dorm, he has been assigned to team Portugal, and he is rooming with a guy named Dylan. There are no pictures of the boys because that would not be cool. I’ll have to be satisfied with trying to catch a shot later in the week in the midst of 180 other campers, taken from a distance, and grainy with indecipherable faces.