High School Sports Recruiting

Recruiting is the lifeblood of every college athletic program, but college coaches can only recruit the very best prospects available to them. If they do not know about you, they cannot possibly recruit you. Coaches make their choices based on the information they have and the evaluations they make on prospects. In just about every case there are better choices of prospects somewhere out there but the coaches either don’t know who they are or they don’t have enough information about these prospects to be convinced of their worth.

If you are a good high school prospect qualified for the next level of competition, and you want to participate in college athletics, there are two things you must do to make this become a reality:

1. You have to make sure colleges are aware that you are a legitimate prospect.

2. You have to convince coaches. or at least one coach, that you are
the best choice for their program.

It sounds simple, but it really is not. In fact, most big colleges spend millions of dollars each year recruiting a relatively small number of athletes for their programs. They, though, recruit from a very thin layer of top-notch prospects from across the country who are typically identified very early in high-profile tournaments or meets. Other colleges with much more restrictive recruiting budgets must rely on a variety of sources to find suitable prospects.

Coaches identify prospects through high school coaches, referrals, personal observations and especially through established scouting organizations like National Scouting Report. You can be a great prospect, but unless your information lands in a coaches hands for preliminary evaluation, you might not be identified as a prospect. To ensure that you will not be left out you have to be pro-active and promote yourself by letting the colleges know that you deserve to participate in collegiate athletics. In other words, the old adage, “if you are good enough, coaches will find you,” no longer applies when it comes to recruiting.

IF YOU THINK YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER IS A CANDIDATE FOR COLLEGE SPORTS THEN IT IS UP TO YOU TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP. PLEASE VISIT THE BLOGROLL LINK IN THE LIST TO THE RIGHT TITLED A. YOUR FIRST STEP TO PLAYING COLLEGE SPORTS TO START THE PROCESS