Recruiting 101
Getting noticed is the first step in the world of college recruiting. When approaching your recruiting process in any sport, you need to market yourself as if you were a salesman, and YOU are the product. You could be the best product around but if no one knows about you, an offer is never going to come. The worst mistake an athlete can make is to wait for a coach or parent to do the recruiting legwork for them. Here are a few tips to help you get noticed:
SPRING RECRUITING TIPS
Spring is quickly approaching and before we know it we will be hitting the football fields in preparation of the 2012 season. Training for the season is in full swing here at the gym, and the marketing process for our seniors to be should be as well. I’ve been fielding a ton of questions as to how to “get noticed”. As I said before in Recruiting 101 you need to market yourself as if you were a salesman, and YOU are the product. You could be the best product around but if no one knows about you, an offer is never going to come. The worst mistake an athlete can make is to wait for a coach or parent to do the recruiting legwork for them.
Here are my top 5 tips for the spring recruiting trail:
1. FIRST AND FOREMOST inform your Head Coach, Position Coach, and Athletic director that you fully intend to compete at the collegiate level. All coaches and AD’s have connections in the college coaching circle but if they aren’t certain that you’re committed to playing they will not be actively pushing your name and highlight.
2. REGISTER NOW for at least one major Division 1 camp (Scarlet Knights Camp) in your area. These large camps have dozens of coaches from every level evaluating drills and skills of all campers. There is NO better way to interact with college coaches than these camps.
3. COMBINE PARTICIPATION in at least one showcase is highly recommended. This gives athletes an opportunity to present official times to college coaches and to see how they stack up against some local competition. We are endorsing this year’s Northeast Scouting combine Northeast Scouting Combine which will take place on June 9th at Demarest High School.
3. START FILLING OUT RECRUITING QUESTIONAIREE’S. By doing this you put yourself in each schools database and are put on their mailing list. Receiving camp brochures and postcards doesn’t necessarily mean you are being recruiting but it does keep you up to date on junior days and camp information.
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