Athletic Scholarships and Entering the New School Year

With school getting started again, families are getting busy. And so are college coaches. But it may surprise you to know that...

... RECRUITING IS YEAR-ROUND FOR COLLEGE COACHES.

Just because they may be in season doesn't mean they stop looking for quality high school athletes. That means you can't slack off, either, as you pursue an athletic scholarship for your son or daughter.

REMINDER: Have you viewed our latest video tip that addresses this topic? It is called How to Get an Athletic Scholarship: The Recruiting Timetable. If you haven't seen it, go ahead and view it now.

It could answer some questions about the right thing to do as you enter this school year.

Getting on a coach's radar

If your son or daughter wants to get on a college coach’s radar, and wants to be recruited by that school, what should you do?

The best method is something I personally learned early on with my twin boys and what I’ve been teaching families for years. And it's this: Create a well crafted introductory packet to send to college coaches.

This packet needs to introduce the athlete to the coach in a very personal way; one that gets their interest and makes them want to know more. It should give the personal and athletic details that a coach wants to see at first glance so he can make a quick screening decision.

You should never send an all inclusive, here’s everything, dump. You should be selective on what you say, but it should provide just the right information to get the coach's interest so he or she begins that back and forth recruiting "courtship."

It’s really important that you make a good first impression. Coaches get hundreds of prospects to filter through. They need to identify a few that they want to invest recruiting time in. If you turn them off with a bad first contact, you could move down their list or off it altogether, so you need not risk that. You need to do it right.

If you present yourself well with the first contact, then you move on to become one of their prospects.

For instance, there’s a kid from New York that we helped with his introductory package. As a consequence his dad was just so excited about the results that he emailed us and said that within five days, two coaches from Division 1 schools had already contacted his high school coach to check up on him. This family did a good introductory package. It was powerful.

Make yours powerful, too. The Recruit-Me System explains in detail how to put together your introductory package, how to get a coach's attention, how to receive letters and phone calls, and how to take the relationship all the way to a scholarship. For more information, and the full story of how I did that with my twin sons, go to the Recruit-Me website.