Sophia (Soph) Burg '25 Recruiting Profile

UPDATE:   I am currently finishing high school and in spring training with the FC Köln U19 and U20 women's teams. I have recently decided that after graduation in July 2025, I will spend the next school year (25/26) in Germany.  I will still keep my options open for the future and consider transferring to a US university in 2026.  

My name is Soph and I am an American senior in high school in Germany. 

Ever since I was a little kid and my mom took me to the women's World Cup Final in Frankfurt of the US vs Japan, I knew am American and it was my dream to play soccer in the US!    In 10th grade, I got that chance for a year, and went to high school in Michigan as an exchange student and really loved it - and really fell in love with playing soccer in the US. That year solidified my desire to go to college in the US and play soccer in the US.... so now I am looking for the right university to do that at.

• 12th grade (2024/25):   SPRING 2025: I am currently training on FC Köln‘s women’s U19 and U20 teams.   FALL 2024: I played the fall season as a goalkeeper with the women's team at SC West Köln in the Mittelrhein (Verbandsliga). I was the only high school student on the women’s team.   
• 11th grade (2023/24): I played on 3 teams all year round.  I played on Brauweiler Girl’s U17 team (Mittelrheinliga) as starting goalkeeper in both fall and spring seasons.  I also played their women's team (Landesliga).  In the fall I was the second goalkeeper and played most games in the field, and in spring, I was the starting goalkeeper. I also was the second goalkeeper for Brauweiler’s Boys U17 team and got special permission to be train with and play on the otherwise all-boy team in an all-boy league.  I really grew as a player last year playing through these experiences.
• 10th grade (2022/23): I did an exchange year in 2022-2023 in Cedar Springs, Michigan and played for a premier club team in the fall and for the high school in the spring.  I was accepted on the Midwest United ECNL team, but my host family didn't support the national travel, so I played for the Cassa Premier team, which was also a good experience!  On the high school team, I started out in goal, but we had another good goalkeeper and I was needed in the field, so I switched positions and played center attacking midfield and ended up with the most goals (13) and most assists (13) on the team.

• 9th grade (2021/22): I played for GW Brauweiler U15 Girls Team as goalkeeper and occasionally as center attacking midfielder.  

I am an excellent student with a 3.8 GPA on a 4.0 unweighted scale and during my sophomore exchange year in Michigan, I had a 4.0 GPA.  I got a 1410 on the SAT (770 Math / 640 English).  I would like to major in engineering in college - and of course, I would LOVE to play soccer in college!

So if you are looking for a dedicated, motivated but also social, fun team player, who is willing to work extremely hard and has a huge desire to learn and improve, then I am the goalkeeper you are looking for!!!  

My soccer youtube is:  Sophia (Soph) Burg - YouTube where I regularly upload videos of games and training.

My instagram is: @sophburg_goalkeeper which is also dedicated to soccer training and game day clips.