Carlsbad High Junior Marley Adams has committed to play D1 soccer for Notre Dame and is accomplishing her lifelong goal of playing college soccer. Marley Adams has worked hard throughout her childhood to get where she is now.
Female soccer players can start receiving offers and talking to coaches at the beginning of their junior year and start training the summer of their senior year. Once colleges were able to start contacting her, Marley Adams received several offers and scheduled visits to different soccer programs.
“The whole process started on June 15, when that’s the first day that colleges started talking to you,” Marley Adams said. “A bunch of colleges reached out to me and scheduled calls. You couldn’t take official visits until August 1st…I was just talking to a bunch of coaches and figuring out where I wanted to take those official visits, I took six or seven visits and Notre Dame was my last visit.”
Once Marley Adams received offers from schools across the country, she found it difficult to choose where to commit to. After visiting all the soccer programs that gave her offers, Marley Adams decided on Notre Dame.
“After I completed all my visits, I then narrowed it down to three options,” Marley Adams said. “My last three were Notre Dame, USC, and [University of] Texas. I feel like I kind of always knew after my visit I wanted to go to Notre Dame because I really liked it.”
Marley Adams feels that her parents have helped her throughout her entire soccer career and have motivated her to always do her best with their constant support. She believes that her family has offered her strength and support that has helped her reach her goals.
“My parents were really helpful with helping me to know, like, what to say on the calls I feel like, because I was kind of nervous talking to those coaches,” Marley Adams said. “A lot of it was kind of like my parents let me do a lot of it individually because they didn’t want to influence too much of my decision.”
Along with Marley Adam’s parents, her close bond with her sister, sophomore Vivi Adams, helped her throughout her commitment process. Being only a year apart in age, the sisters feel that they are closely knit and bonded.
“I’ve just tried to show that no matter where she was, whether she was on a visit or she was just home, that she could talk to me about what she was feeling or if she needed help making a decision,” Vivi Adams said. “I just wanted to try to show that I was always there for her.”
Since Notre Dame is located in Indiana, it will be difficult for Marley Adams to visit her home back in Carlsbad. She is very close with her family and spends a lot of time with her sisters, something that she knows will be an adjustment when she goes off to college.
“I’m kind of nervous about being so far away from home,” Marley Adams said. “I really like the school, but it’s gonna be hard being so far because I won’t be able to just go home on the weekends or visit my family much.”
Though Marley Adams is nervous about moving across the country for soccer, she is excited to live out her dream. Marley Adams believes that her hard work has paid off and that she will be able to thrive at Notre Dame after she graduates from CHS.
“Getting to play college soccer was always something I wanted to do,” Marley Adams said. “I have been getting so excited when I watch their games on TV, I just know I’m going to have so much fun.”
