Tommy Poz '24 Recruiting Profile

I have always dreamed of reaching my goal of playing at the highest level of competitive soccer.  I’ve had a ball at my feet since I was born, and my passion and love for the game has yet to lessen.  Growing up I also played lacrosse at a very high level, but gave that up just to focus on soccer.  Throughout my whole life I’ve been taken away from playing soccer with my friends because I have a late birthday so I have been playing club soccer with the grade above me. Actually, being forced to play up has benefited my game and resulted in my making my high school team as a freshman.  I started in the 10 role my entire freshman year, and contributed to a quarter of my team’s scoring.  I was named to the All Conference team and the team went on to be named Co-County Champions.  My play during my freshman year led me to be named by Newsday as one of the Top 100 players on Long Island to look for in my sophomore season.  I was the only sophomore on Long Island named to the list.  While injured and forced to miss the regular season my sophomore year, I returned for the playoffs and scored the game winning goal in the first playoff game, and remained the starting number 10 through to the Long Island Championship Finals.  Since my desire is to play for a top level D1 team, for club play I moved to the Barca Academy Pro NY 2005 Team for the 2021-2022 year. We had a successful year winning the ENY State Cup Championships, and advancing to the Eastern Regional Championship in West Virginia.  Both my present coach at Barca, and the coach of my prior club team, the head men’s soccer coach at Hofstra University, have described me as a “very intelligent player.”  This combined with my speed, I think are my two biggest strengths.