SUNY Delhi Women’s Soccer – Coach Zach Ward

On today’s episode, I speak with Coach Zach Ward from the SUNY Delhi Women’s Program in New York. We talk about how he likes to recruit passionate players invested in the game. He describes the picturesque campus in the Catskill mountains. Lastly, we discuss their roster size and what roles each player has. Learn more about SUNY Delhi Women’s Soccer.

Matt: [00:00:00] Hi everybody. Welcome to Discover College Soccer. I’m lucky enough today to be joined by Coach Zach Ward from SUNY Delhi. 

Coach: Welcome coach. Good morning. Thanks for having me, Matt. 

Matt: Yeah, thanks for being here. Of course, the State University of New York, uh, it’s not a sunny deli. It is, uh, it 

Coach: is not . 

Matt: Uh, a nice D three program up there in, in upstate New York.

So coach let’s you know, your season just wrapped up. You, congratulations, you guys, um, made the tournament. Um, and you know, I’m sure you’re, you’re shifting gears to the recruiting side of things at this point. So when it comes to, to recruiting, You know, when are you really starting to talk to players?

Kind of what year in high school are you, have you wrapped up your 20 threes or are you really focused on your 20 threes right now? What does that look like for you?

Coach: Yeah. I think for, for us right now, we’re certainly still finishing the 23 class. You know, you’re, you know, we start the, the spring before, so, you know, So 20 threes wrap up.

There will be some overlap in the spring as we finish up 20 threes and then starting into our 20 fours. So, you know, right, right now it’s in, in season. Everybody’s busy in the fall, so there’s not a lot of. Recruiting events. You know, we’re pretty rural, so there’s, you know, some high school games, some of the local talent, there’s, there’s some pretty good programs, but, you know, high school, we’re probably talking, the top, top programs in New York are 90 minutes or so away, so it’s a little tougher to get to see those in season.

But, you know, certainly make it out. There’s times, obviously we [00:01:30] will have an off day and if I can get out to, to a game, it’s always great to be seen and especially at the local schools. 

Matt: Yeah. Uh, in, in terms of, of, you know, like you say, you’re a little bit rural there, um, in, in terms of where you recruit and, and the tournaments that you go to see players, you know, whether it’s, you know, I don’t know how many re recruiting events are happening in upstate New York in, in November, December, but I know down here in Florida and, and in.

North Carolina and kind of the southern states and even some of the Midwestern states, there’s, there’s a bunch of stuff going on. So are there tournaments, whether it’s now or in the spring, that are really kind of must hit on your list that, that you try to get to each year?

Coach: Yeah, for sure. I think, you know this, the weekend before Thanksgiving, so two weekends ago, their EDP and pda, a hosted events in New Jersey.

So I, I pulled double duty where I’d spend the morning at one event and do the afternoon at another. That’s usually, you know, we’re not too far from New Jersey. Just right over the border there, not too awfully long, so about three hours or so to those events. So, you know, it’s, it’s great talent. Great, um, great opportunity to get down there.

Uh, any FC in the spring over there in the outside of the Boston area. That’s only about four hours or so from us, so that’s something to get to in the spring. Uh, long Island has events, losa the club there in Long Island has something over President’s Day, or you know, the first or the end of February. I do plan with heading down to the ECNL Region League in January as well as the Disney showcase that [00:03:00] weekend after.

So, you know, there’s certainly. Some events that are certainly check marks and yeah, I have to have to get out to these, you know, where I’ve had the most success. Uh, I know Castle, the rally events going, or the rally events going on this weekend. Unfortunately, life outside of soccer, um, closing when a house this weekend Ah, okay.

Aren’t, aren’t, aren’t able to get down to that. But we’ve gotten certainly some good feedback. Some interests, some from some players, and you know, certainly gonna be reaching out and following up with them, even though I’m unable to attend and see ’em in person. 

Matt: Okay. Well, how about camps? Do you guys run your own camps?

Do you or your staff work? Other folks camps? How does that fit into your recruiting?

Coach: Yeah, so I’m only in my second season here. Last, you know, the fall of 21 came in late in the cycle coming out of, you know, everybody was kind of a hiring freeze with covid and different things. And there was kind of a slow, uh, coaching cycle after, you know, that 20, that spring, 2021 into the fall of 21.

So we didn’t really do any camps in my first year, but this past fall we, we hosted about a dozen. About 14, 12 to 14 players. For our first one, we, we just redid our facilities. So we do have a new athletic complex built on campus here. So that was kind of our, our first two all bringing in some outside, outside players.

I’m from the kid from Connecticut, a good blend of. Um, local players as well as off of Long Island. So it was a good, great event in September. Exhausting. We had a long away trip [00:04:30] Saturday, and then we immediately come back and are hosting an event starting at eight 30 the next morning on a Sunday. So, you know, we had some, you know, some of the players were able to come out for that and help and, So, you know, it was a great first event in the spring.

Once the weather breaks, we’ll be looking to do something as well. You know, looking at those 20 fours, maybe their first, you know, first time went to campus, kind of seeing what we’re about as well as some 20 fives that are starting their recruiting process as well. 

Matt: Okay. Well, whether it’s at a tournament or a camp or high school game, or wherever you may be, what, what makes up your kind of hierarchy of things that you’re looking for in a player, whether it’s on the field stuff or off the field?

Coach: I think every, every coach wants the player that’s five, 10 and, you know, super dine, you know, every, every, that, all those players, you know, draw up all the coach’s attentions, you know. But for me, I’m, I’m, I recruit soccer players. I, I like, I like players that are invested in the game and are passionate about the game and aren’t just players that play soccer.

I certainly think there’s a different in the two, in the two statements there, you know, I’m big on work rate and, you know, working, how, how hard do we work on the ball? How hard do we work off the ball, you know, in possession when, when we’re defending those types of things. And it’s real, it’s real easy to figure out, okay, this person works extremely hard, they lost the ball.

Are they making their recovery run? Are they kind of having a, you know, 10 minute sub session and be like, well, well I’m the worst player and you know, I don’t, you know, we make mistakes as players and you know, we gotta, you. We’re not perfect as [00:06:00] coaches either, but you know, we make a mistake, we gotta get over it.

And you know, so certainly see that within the run of play. I, you know, everybody, you know what we’re at, we’re not gonna win to get, you know, the world class, you know, player. Right now we’re, you know, we’re division three, we’re a smaller school. We’ve only been, you know, D three for two years. So, you know, I’m looking for players that want an opportunity.

And, you know, finally getting ’em on the phone or talking to them in person and, you know, kind of walking through, Hey, this is what I’m looking for. You know, I, I certainly, you know, those are some of the boxes that we like to check during the recruiting process, or at least in that initial evaluation of a player.

Matt: Okay, well, one question that, uh, us parents always have first is, okay, what’s this gonna cost me? Um, but you know, I’m not holding you to hard numbers here, but can you just gimme an overview of, uh, what it costs to go there, what the financial aid situation looks like, obviously from an academic standpoint without athletic scholarships, but just gi give some, uh, rough idea of what that.

Coach: Sure. Un unfortunately, yeah, we’re, we’re division three. I can’t give anybody any money cuz they’re fantastic soccer players or anything like that. So we are public institution, we are part of the state of New York, um, university system like you mentioned at the beginning here. So we are, we do have in-state, out-of-state tuition, our out out-state.

You know, packaged, you know, we’re talking maybe only three or $4,000 more than an end state, which I understand three and $4,000 is still three and [00:07:30] $4,000. But you know, you’re comparing that to some of those higher, you know, private schools where the tuition is, you know, three times of that and you’re not into the room and board or anything.

So, and now the state student right now, we’re packaging before any type of merit aid, any academic scholarships is about 20. Roughly give or take, you know, depending on your major, whether that has certain extra fees tacked on for laps and things. An in-state student is probably anywhere between two or 20,020 1000.

Um, that’s room and board included tuition fees, those types of things. Um, freshmen are allowed to have cars on campus and things like that too, so they’re usually not. Our, our parking pass and things like that. It’s not crazy ridiculous. Um, but that is also, all of that is included in those two numbers.

Matt: Okay. That’s great. Well, let’s talk a little bit more about the school. Uh, you know, sure. There’s a lot of folks who aren’t familiar with Delhi, New York, uh, especially folks down here in Florida, uh, may not be familiar with with that. So can you gimme some, uh, awesome things about the school that maybe, you know, I’m not gonna learn, just clicking around the website?

Coach: Yeah, I think campus is certainly a place to see in person. You know, we are built in the Catskill Mountains. We are built on a hill, so you know, our athletic facilities built at the top of campus. So we, we overlook campus, we overlook the town of [00:09:00] Delhi, we overlook the Catskill Mountains.

So right now, the. That’s not the nicest as the winter and the leaves are off the trees, but during, during the fall there, October, September, October, even in the first part of November, you know, the, the, the leaves in the backdrop is, is pretty unbelievable. And I’m out there and I think, I can’t believe I get to do this, you know, for a career.

So it’s certainly, certainly nice to see and, you know, being able to train and play, uh, the campus itself, it’s not super, it’s not super gigantic. We’re probably about 3000 undergraduate students. There is a good portion of commuters, but we also have a good bit of, you know, on-campus living and housing and things.

So a lot of women’s soccer specifically are from out of the area, coming from Long Island or the capital region of Albany. We do have probably four or five local players, a couple that are from in town as well. Um, so, um, it’s not, not, not a gigantic campus. Like we said, student body’s not large. So once you get to your nitty gritty classes in your major, you’re talking maybe 12 to 15.

Students so that, you know, that professor to student ratio is pretty good. Anytime I reach out to a professor for some reason about a particular player, they know exactly who we’re talking about. It’s usually not, uh, look like, give me a second to figure out, you know, get ’em on the, you know, they know right away.

Which, which is super good, you know, as. For me as a [00:10:30] student, I always liked, you know, the professor knowing who I was and, you know, having that one-on-one type of rapport with them. So anytime you need help, you know, their, their office hours aren’t usually pretty wide open and, yep, come in, let’s get the help.

We, we want you to be successful. 

Matt: Well, speaking of that success in the classroom, you know, obviously it’s tough for students, new students, especially to college, to really balance the sports and the academics. So specifically for your women’s soccer players, really, how, how do they, they balance that? And what kind of support systems does the school have in place to help out?

Coach: Yeah. I think for me as a, as a coach, I don’t mandate a lot of their time and, you know, I always, you know, talking to recruits on the phone and they ask what’s. What’s a general day look like? You know, on a non-game day, you’re probably with me less than, less than two hours. I’m a less, as more coach at times.

You know, if we can come in and play and train for 90 minutes, let’s get in and let’s get out. And we don’t. The game we play is only 90 minutes long. I don’t, my philosophy as a coach, we don’t need to train for two and a half hours. You know, there’s other things that class, the homework, meeting with professors, you know, those, those types of things certainly take priority, you know, adding.

You know, the weight room type of thing. If it’s important to you, you know, you’ll, you’ll find time to do it. So, you know, there, there’s 24 hours in a day. You know, we teach these, you know, we teach the players in the program. How do you manage, you know, soccer, non-game day? We’re training from four to [00:12:00] six.

You’re from class from nine to 12, so you’ve got all these other hours. How, how are you utilizing those? We’ve got free writing labs, we’ve got free tutoring. We’ve, you know, we’ve got those types of things set up where. We, if you’re, if you’re unsuccessful in the classroom, it’s because you haven’t, you know, gone the extra mile, not even really going the extra mile.

There’s so many resources there for you. We just have to ask as a student, and not even as the athlete, there’s just this. You know, across the board for any student on Delhi’s campus, there’s, you know, the professors are always, you know, reaching out and saying, Hey, we have something called a starfish system, where students aren’t doing particularly well.

They send out a notification that’s a, you know, low test score or you know, attendance, those types of things. I get it as a coach, their academic advisor gets it. Our athletic director gets it. So there’s all these people that are making sure these people and these students, these athletes are successful on campus.

You know, I, I, I take a lot of pride in not having a lot of attrition because of academics. You know, it’s, you go back to kind of the recruiting piece. Know, I, I certainly looking at academically inclined, you know, student athletes where they understand, you know, soccer’s not getting me, you know, I’m not, probably not going professional or playing professionally or, you know, soccer’s not going to be a gigantic part of my life in the next 10, 15 years.

Where [00:13:30] yes, you will still probably be involved in some way, but that academic piece, what is, what’s the academics going to do in, you know, if I don’t do that, soccer goes away at Del High. And you know, that’s something we, we’ve preached in the two years that, that I’ve been. That’s great. 

Matt: Well, you kind of answered what my next question was to be about what a typical, uh, day looks like or typical week looks like.

So in terms of your in-season game schedule, kind of what’s that cadence usually look like? How much do you guys have to travel in terms of conference, non-conference? Kind of thing.

Coach: Yeah, we, we’ll, so we’ll look at it a regular training day, like we said, you know, probably anywhere, no more than two hours.

So we, we do, we focus a lot on fitness. So we will, you know, we come in trainings at four, we’ll do our dynamic warmup, four to four 15, and then we do some type of fitness depending on that. Where we’re at in season, it might be five minutes, it might be 30 minutes. You know, we’re somewhere in that range where we.

We do it every single day. It doesn’t matter. You know, leading up to our conference final, that Monday we did 25 minutes of hard fitness because we were off Sunday. I was giving ’em off Tuesday again, and then we were pre preparing for our final, so we went pretty hard. We’re talking early o early November.

We’re still doing fitness to maintain that sharpness and things. Then we do some type of technical activity. So passing, receiving, carrying something in that real. Then we would do train a particular topic. So maybe [00:15:00] playing through the middle third, using our six to switch the point of attack, those types of things.

And then we always end with some type of play, either 11 aside or, you know, three V three, or sorry, three, you know, three team games, those types of things. And, you know, that works for me. Obviously not saying that’s the only way or the right way to do it, but you know, that’s what I’ve, as an assistant, we’ve, we, we’ve kind of done that in my past.

Stops super successful there. Moving into the head coaching here, I brought it over. You know, in terms of the fitness, it’s also, we don’t, we don’t use it as a penalty. You know, for me, I, I never want fitness to have this negative connotation to it where, They’re unlikely as players to do it if I prescribe it to them and the off season, oh, coach is punishing us, he’s making us, do you know, this, this, and this.

So, you know, I never wanna have that. And I think the players have really run with that. When I’ve, I gave about 10 players extra fitness to do in the season where we sat down, said, you know, I think if we commit to doing this over the next four weeks, It’s two times a week. We’re going to be better as a program and you’re gonna be better as players.

And some of them was a cap, two of them were captains, some of them were under, you know, underclassmen as well. So, you know, I think they ran with it as well. Um, What, what was the first part of that question? ? 

Matt: No, it was, it was a good answer. Well, I’m just asking about your travel and conference non-conference stuff.

Coach: So our, our conference, we’re in the North Atlantic Conference, so we do have two divisions in east and west, [00:16:30] which are, west Division is mostly our New York schools, and then a school in Vermont. Where our east division we are en we are introducing a team out of the Boston area as well as teams in the state of Maine.

So we are pretty spread out in terms of, of our, our travel, but we only moving into 2023, we are only going to play one cross division game. So we do travel to. We do travel next, next year in 23, and then 24, we would host two of the teams. And we’re, we’re an ever-changing conference here. I don’t think there’s, since 2017, I, I was an assistant from 17 to 19 at another conference school in the east.

And from 17 to now, there’s always been either teams coming in or leaving. There’s always been some type of change. So, you know, the conference is always looking to expand. I. That’s seems to be the name of the game in college athletics at any level is, you know, expansion and teams moving, just kind of seeing what’s the right fit for them.

So, you know, there’s, the kids like traveling. They, they, they say they hate it, but then at the same time they, they love the, the long road trips and bonding and that’s the stuff that they, you know, they like to, that’s what they remember. Hey, remember the time we had to travel 14 hours back from Northern Maine to New York?

Yeah, I remember that. And then you remember when you forced us to go to class? You know, when we got in at 4:00 AM said, no, I didn’t force you to do it. That was the [00:18:00] NCAA that said you had to do it. So, um, but that, that’s the stuff they talk about and they’ll probably bring it up the next time they talk to me.

Coach, why did you make a, I didn’t make us do anything. I was the conference scheduled that. Yeah. 

Matt: Okay. Well that’s good. Well, let’s talk a little bit more about, about the team and the soccer side of things. So is there a roster that roster size you’re trying to hit every year that you find is, 

Coach: Yeah, so I’m, I’m able to roster 33 players, and that’s based on our uniform situation and gear that we have right now.

Of, of that, would four of you goalkeepers? So that would be what, 20, 29. 29 field players. I, ideally for me, I would keep. I would keep 33 if it was the right 33. You know, we don’t have a huge coaching staff, so it’s me and, and a part-time assistant. So, you know, managing thir 33 players is certainly an undertaking.

You know, this, this year we played, we started with 29 and pre-season. Some players, you know, decided for whatever emails, you know, to, to pursue other things coming out of preseason. You know, certainly have a relationship with them. So we went with 27 this year. So, you know, 27 is a good number. Two of those were goalkeepers.

I would certainly like to, you know, have the three to four goalkeepers, you know, just, you go, you have one injury, now you’re only down to one. So, you know, I. You know, managing 27 is still, you know, you have 25 field players there. So there’s something written on my whiteboard as, you know, we might not like our role, but we must make an impact in our [00:19:30] role.

And that comes with, you know, we sit down at the end of preseason, this is how, how I see your role for, for the year. Are we able to, you know, are we able to accept that? And if not, you know, okay, what do you need to do as a player to have an increased. And you know, I think again, that’s something that I brought to the table, you know, as a coach over the last two years and there hasn’t been many headaches where people were complaining about, you know, playing time or anything like that because they understand, right?

I’m gonna be given an opportunity every single day in training to, to show that I should be in the first 11 and you know, if I’m not in the first 11, As a player, now what do I need to do? You know, I didn’t do it this week. What do I need to do in the next week to get my name back there in the first 11?

And, you know, that’s also something that, that we’ve changed, you know, this starting this year is we, we don’t have starters, we don’t have reserves. We have, uh, Fir players on the first 11 and impact players as our substitutes. And it’s all goes back to that mentality thing where when I come into the game, I’m going to make an impact.

I am, oh, I’m, it’s not that I’m not a starter, it’s that. These are just the players in the first 11. You know, would you rather, we have this conversation all the time and in the program, would you rather start and play five minutes or come in off as an impact player and play 85 minutes? And so while was a starter, you know, but you only played five minutes.

Oh, you’re right, coach. So, [00:21:00] you know, that’s kind of just a mentality thing. And I think it’s certainly the players are accepting of that. They’re running with it. They’ve, they’ve made the program their own with, you know, my guidance, I think. We’re very player focused. Player driven with, you know, the guidance of, of the coach, of the coaching staff as myself and my assistant.

Matt: Well, and that kinda leads me to my next question was, you mentioned a little there, but how would you describe your overall style of coaching and the team style of play?

Coach: Yeah, I, I, I don’t take myself too seriously as a coach. This is obviously my job. I’m super passionate about the game and, and, and the player’s development and those types of things, but I’m super quirky.

I, I am, you know, I, I don’t take myself too seriously in training. I’m. I’m not the tallest person, and the players certainly make sure that I know that. And I’m like, I’ve, for the last 32 years, it’s nothing new. Right. And it’s the . So, so we, we, we, we, we rib each other when it’s, when it’s appropriate, you know, there’s, you know, there’s a time to train, there’s a time that we can be a little bit more relaxed and those types of things.

And it’s, you know, identifying that as a coach, you know, here’s the line, you know, we, we can tow the line, you know, we can make. When we, we are able to flip the switch when we’re able, when we’re, when we need to. And you know, I think players certainly enjoy the environment. There’s, you know, no one’s walked away from the team because, you know, they, they, they don’t enjoy being a part of women’s soccer or they, they don’t [00:22:30] like what’s going on.

Those types of things. Um, yeah, so I give a lot of input, you know, with, to the team, you know, okay, what do we think for, for training today? What do we think? What are we, what’s our thoughts going into the weekend? But at the end of the day, it’s, I, I’m making the decisions. I’m the one, you know, that, that, that has to make those calls, but there’s certainly player input and to, um, into those decisions.

Matt: Okay. Well, in terms of. You know, the off season, you know, now is the regular season’s over off season. I, I kind of classify that as mid-November till next August. Uh, the, the whole thing. What, what will that look like for your players in terms of what they’re doing now and in the spring?

Coach: Yeah, so once our season’s done, it’s all about let’s, let’s finish out the semester, right?

Let’s make sure we’re staying in class, we’re getting our assignments in, we’re prepping for finals. So right now, Next to zero soccer going on, other than maybe us hosting some recruits here before the end of the sum, you know, prospective students before the end of the semester, I, I will give them a winter workout or a holiday workout.

So we do have a January term, so they won’t be coming back until the end of January. So middle to December to the end of January, they’ll have. You know, a workout, mostly some core, some techs, some small technical training, a little bit of lifting, and then, then they report back at the end of January, we’ll have our team lift.

So end of January through. [00:24:00] Our spring break, which is usually the third week of March, they’ll have our, they’ll team lift twice a week and then they’ll have a third day where, kind of an individual or where, where can you, you know, place it in the week? Fortunately, D three, fortunately, however you wanna look at it, and I can’t mandate it.

I can’t stand there outside the gym and check boxes to see who’s, you know, who’s coming and who’s going. Again, it comes down to that mentality of, if it’s important to you all, if we wanna get better as a program and make it back to the national tournament like we did in 22, are we gonna commit to doing it?

And then our spring season will start that week after we come back from spring break and that, you know, D three, we get 16 athletic related contacts. Over a five week period. So once we start, we’ve got five weeks to finish and one of those 16 can be a play day up to 180 minutes in the day. So depending on what weather is like, can we get outside right away?

You know, last year we did our first three weeks we just did Foot SA and did some fitness inside and our you our basketball arena. And then the last two weeks we got outside and we’re training, we. Our field was ripped up as was, as it was getting ready to, you know, get the turf field and things laid down.

So we trained in some of our other auxiliary space and some of our other training spaces. So our spring looked very different. This in the spring of 22 than it’ll look like in the spring of 23. Um, but you know, it’s all about really [00:25:30] maintaining. You know, our fitness sharpness, we’re not really reinventing anything.

Or in, in the spring, in the spring season, we will be adding a couple spring players to the roster, which will, that’ll be, you know, adding them and getting them, you know, up to speed with what’s going on in Delhi women’s soccer land here. Um, so we’re really looking forward to adding those three players right now.

Um, so, you know, real, really fun stuff going on. Looking, unfortunately this kind of. Dead period in the off season between now and, and, and our spring season. It’s a lot of recruiting and a lot of waiting to get back together. Well, for sure.

Matt: Well, you know, we, we’ve talked about a lot of different things here and I always like to end these with what didn’t we talk about or what else would you like us to know?

Whether it’s about recruiting the college process in general, soccer, the team, the school, whatever you got. I’ll give you the last.

Coach: Yeah, I think, you know, I say usually in all of our, our phone calls with recruits, as, at the end of the day, we’re, we’re all about finding the best fit for them as a player. As much as I would like every single great player to come to Delhi, you know, it’s, it’s a puzzle.

Putting the pieces together, you know, soccer is not just the only piece of the puzzle. It’s, you know, location, it’s cost, it’s opportunities, it’s distance from home. And, you know, going through, you know, going through that, I, I recommend. every player to get out and see as much as possible. That’s the only way you know they’re going to know.

How, you know, what, what is their best fit? I [00:27:00] think that’s kind of the buzzword too, is I’m looking for my right fit. I’m looking for the best fit. You know, with this transportable era, you see so many, so many names coming in there every single day, and it’s, well, they, they didn’t. Find the right fit, may, maybe Del High is the right fit.

And you know, I think what we offer here, my philosophy as a coach is, you know, I recruit to play. I, I have no interest in recruiting a player to sit for four years. I can guarantee an opportunity, um, you know, an opportunity to show that you should be in that first 11. The best 11 play. You know, not only is the recruiting process, the puzzle, but you know, putting a team together, the 11 together as a puzzle, how is, what’s the best 11 pieces?

How do they get put together and what’s that system look like? It’s, you know, we played three different systems this year. We finally settled on 4, 3, 3. I usually don’t like playing a 4 33. That’s, that’s, to me it’s super vanilla. But we, we ran with it this year. We were super successful. We won seven straight games once we, once we committed to playing that way, so it must, must have worked, not pass on back.

For me, that was passback for players. The, you know, committing to doing what needed to be done. We with another saying in women’s soccer land here is we all have a job. Let’s go to work. Our, our big hashtag is take care of business. Now we have a job to do every single game. Let’s go take care of business.

And you know, I think. 2022 was super successful for us, only our second year as a [00:28:30] D three program. Looking forward to year number three. I know how exciting things are. I know how great the program is. I’d love to have a conversation with, with anybody that has interest, and as you can tell, I like talking about Delhi and what we can offer and, but at the end of the day, it’ll go back to it’s all about finding the right fit.

Is it Delhi or is it someplace else? I just want people to keep playing the game that I’m passionate about. And that they’re passionate about. 

Matt: Awesome. Well, great last words coach. We wish you the best of luck and hopefully you’ll get back to that, that National Championship Tournament at next year. And, uh, if you’re at the Coaches Convention in Philly, be sure to stop by the my table, uh, discover College Soccer and say hi.

Love to meet you in person and, uh, thanks for being here.

Coach: Appreciate it, Matt. Thank you very much. Thank you.