How To Get Recruited
In the world of college recruiting, it’s not so much your stats, your height or weight, your 40 time, how many kills you get in volleyball or aces in tennis or how many hits you get in baseball. It’s about letting people know who you are or that you even exist. If you are a high school athlete who has the potential to play at the next level, you will need to get on a college recruiting program and you need to get the word out about who you are to as many college programs in your region as possible.
When I say region, I basically mean college programs that are in your state where you live and in the neighboring states. You want to contact those college programs.
Now, what you should do is come up with a list of 50 college programs. Look at all the D-1 programs, D-2, NAIA and some D-3 programs. Most of the time you will hear from D-3 programs any way. At that point you need to write an introductory email about yourself and who you are and what you can do. Also add your height, weight, how they can reach you, your address, and phone numbers (home and cell).
Make sure you have 50 college programs and never leave it up to 1 or 2 college programs.
Keep in mind in the world of college recruiting, most of the student athletes do not get to pick the college program--it’s the college programs that are picking you. Be sure that you take a hard look at 50 college programs. Emailing the college programs about yourself is very important and they will get to know who you are. Now the good thing is these 50 college programs are now aware of who you are because of your email. Most of these college programs will email you back
What is a key point is that you may get a questionnaire from these college programs; this is a big step in the recruiting process.
Take your time and make sure you fill out each questionnaire you receive from a college program. Failure to fill out the recruiting questionnaire completely could result in you never hearing from that college program ever again. Also by getting the questionnaire filled out and mailed back to a college coach is letting that program know that you are interested in them and now it’s more official; they know you and will recruit you.
What is the parent’s roll in the college recruiting process?
In my professional opinion, the parents should only be in a supporting roll only-to help their son or daughter in completing the questionnaires that they will get. Help with getting DVD’s made and mailed, help in writing email to college coaches. These are some of the great things that parents can do in a support roll.
One parent whose son is a very talented high school basketball player from Pennsylvania felt it was his job to do it all for his son. This parent is a great person and really means well but when the parent is emailing back and forth with college coaches and getting to know coaches that, I think, is a bit much. If you’re a parent and you’re making phone calls to college programs or emailing college programs you are doing too much. As a parent, if you are out in front on every detail as it relates to college recruiting then you are doing too much. College coaches don’t want to know the parents. They are not recruiting you and they really would not want to talk with you at all. But this parent wanted to do everything anyway. I advised the parent in Florida that he was too involved, that he was doing too much and that he should take a back seat in the recruiting process.
He meant well but sometimes parents can get too involved and mess it up for the kid. I’ve seen it happen many, many times. Parents out there: just take a supportive roll in the process and everything will work out.
The man in Pennsylvania whose son is a very good basketball player and is getting some attention form D-1 and D-2 programs and I feel that he will be a D-1 player. There are parents out there who are always on the message boards, buying all of the magazines about whatever sport, spending big on everything and you really don’t have to do all that. These are the parents that are so involved in every aspect of the process that sometimes it hurts the overall recruiting process. So parents, just be cool!
As a high school student athlete you can email college coaches and they can email you back. Keep in mind though; college programs want to hear from you. In your email to the college coaches just give a brief summary of who you are and how they can reach you. Also ask them what would be the best time to call them. By rule from the NCAA a high school student athlete may call a college coach but remember this: if they are not there to receive your call and you leave a message by rule, they cannot call you back so make sure that they let you know what would be the best time to reach them. I would call one college program per day. The goal here is for you to get to know them and them to know about you.
Getting recruited for college athletics is all about exposure, getting college programs to know you and you, the student athlete, to know them.
When I say region, I basically mean college programs that are in your state where you live and in the neighboring states. You want to contact those college programs.
Now, what you should do is come up with a list of 50 college programs. Look at all the D-1 programs, D-2, NAIA and some D-3 programs. Most of the time you will hear from D-3 programs any way. At that point you need to write an introductory email about yourself and who you are and what you can do. Also add your height, weight, how they can reach you, your address, and phone numbers (home and cell).
Make sure you have 50 college programs and never leave it up to 1 or 2 college programs.
Keep in mind in the world of college recruiting, most of the student athletes do not get to pick the college program--it’s the college programs that are picking you. Be sure that you take a hard look at 50 college programs. Emailing the college programs about yourself is very important and they will get to know who you are. Now the good thing is these 50 college programs are now aware of who you are because of your email. Most of these college programs will email you back
What is a key point is that you may get a questionnaire from these college programs; this is a big step in the recruiting process.
Take your time and make sure you fill out each questionnaire you receive from a college program. Failure to fill out the recruiting questionnaire completely could result in you never hearing from that college program ever again. Also by getting the questionnaire filled out and mailed back to a college coach is letting that program know that you are interested in them and now it’s more official; they know you and will recruit you.
What is the parent’s roll in the college recruiting process?
In my professional opinion, the parents should only be in a supporting roll only-to help their son or daughter in completing the questionnaires that they will get. Help with getting DVD’s made and mailed, help in writing email to college coaches. These are some of the great things that parents can do in a support roll.
One parent whose son is a very talented high school basketball player from Pennsylvania felt it was his job to do it all for his son. This parent is a great person and really means well but when the parent is emailing back and forth with college coaches and getting to know coaches that, I think, is a bit much. If you’re a parent and you’re making phone calls to college programs or emailing college programs you are doing too much. As a parent, if you are out in front on every detail as it relates to college recruiting then you are doing too much. College coaches don’t want to know the parents. They are not recruiting you and they really would not want to talk with you at all. But this parent wanted to do everything anyway. I advised the parent in Florida that he was too involved, that he was doing too much and that he should take a back seat in the recruiting process.
He meant well but sometimes parents can get too involved and mess it up for the kid. I’ve seen it happen many, many times. Parents out there: just take a supportive roll in the process and everything will work out.
The man in Pennsylvania whose son is a very good basketball player and is getting some attention form D-1 and D-2 programs and I feel that he will be a D-1 player. There are parents out there who are always on the message boards, buying all of the magazines about whatever sport, spending big on everything and you really don’t have to do all that. These are the parents that are so involved in every aspect of the process that sometimes it hurts the overall recruiting process. So parents, just be cool!
As a high school student athlete you can email college coaches and they can email you back. Keep in mind though; college programs want to hear from you. In your email to the college coaches just give a brief summary of who you are and how they can reach you. Also ask them what would be the best time to call them. By rule from the NCAA a high school student athlete may call a college coach but remember this: if they are not there to receive your call and you leave a message by rule, they cannot call you back so make sure that they let you know what would be the best time to reach them. I would call one college program per day. The goal here is for you to get to know them and them to know about you.
Getting recruited for college athletics is all about exposure, getting college programs to know you and you, the student athlete, to know them.
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