If you want to know how good Megan Marsack is at soccer, don’t ask her.

The Michigan Gators’ standout either doesn’t know or doesn’t want to say.

A call-in to the U17 Women’s National Team camp in Florida this January, Marsack was invited to the adidas ESP camp in California for 96 top players in the 2011 and 2012 graduating classes.

As her mom Leslie tells it, when Megan was asked upon returning home how well she did, she replied “I didn’t do that good.”

Which is pretty interesting considering she was named to the event’s All-Star game and had her name mentioned pretty consistently by college coaches who were asked which players did well for themselves.

Another example came with that national team camp, when Leslie learned some teachers were unhappy that Megan had missed a week of school.

“It turns out all she said is that she was going to Florida and never said why, so they thought it was for a vacation,” Leslie said. “Once I told them they were fine with it. When she goes to these camps I don’t think she even tells her teammates. She just will not brag about herself.”

However unassuming Marsack is off the field, she is quite willing to impose herself on it. Her club coach at Michigan Gators, Henry Steinwascher, said she has blossomed in this way in the past couple of years.

“With this team before she was in the shadow of a couple of other kids who had strong, type A personalities,” Steinwascher said. “When I took the team a couple of years ago they left and I started to put more responsibility on her. I told her she needed to be one of the keys to the team.”

Marsack is notable for her versatility. While she played outside back at ESP, she has also played forward for ODP and midfielder for her club team.

“She’s the type of kid, if I told her to play in goal she could play in goal,” Steinwascher said “She really could play anywhere.”

She was wanting to play somewhere else when she first took the field as a right back at ESP; not because she doesn’t like that position but because she was suddenly placed in front of about 100 watching coaches lining the sideline right next to her.

“Having all those college coaches so close was a little scary. I looked over and I was like ‘oh my gosh,’” she said. “But once I took a couple of touches on the ball I was able to relax. I was more nervous at national camp actually.”

Marsack said she was told after that camp that she needed to be more assertive in taking players on, and to work on her skills in the air. At ESP, she was especially good at winning the ball and making decisions with it. Her athletic ability was also apparent, but Steinwascher said this is not always the case.

“She makes everything look so easy,” he said. “When she runs or we do sprint drills or whatever, she looks like it takes her no effort to be that fast. With other kids you see the ugly face, the grinding hard but not with her. It just looks easy.”

Some other Midwesterners who were at the national team camp in January included Olivia Brannon, Sarah Molina, Brittany Von Rueden, Ashley Meier and Olivia Schultz.

Marsack is attracting all sorts of attention from DI coaches now, but once again she doesn’t appear to recognize how coveted she will be on the recruiting trail.

“I hope I can play for a DI school,” she said. “I know I want to stay kind of close to my house.”

Considering a major in the medical field, she does at least allow that she would like to play in the new WPS after her school days.

Until then she’ll be winning balls, helping the attack and just upgrading the quality of the team around her….whether she realizes it or not.