High School Sports Recruiting

Each sport ebbs and flows…We occasionally hear from parents and prospects that they have not heard from any coaches for awhile. There is reason for this worth noting. Each sport has what we can call a Recruiting Cycle. The cycle for your particular sport depends on several variables such as recruiting rules, when college teams participate in their seasons and the preferences as well as organizational skills of individual head coaches. Coaches are more active in reaching out to prospects immediately following their seasons and during or directly after club or travel team seasons. They are also typically very proactive at the start of the college academic year. They are less likely to reach out to prospects during pre-season practice time frames, during the first several weeks of their teams’ seasons and at the start of summer vacations. In the first too cases, they are just too busy getting their team prepared for the season. As to the latter, many coaches, especially from smaller colleges, are on nine- or ten-month contracts, so the summertime is when they spend time with family, take personal vacations, operate their camps or are instructors at camps on other college campuses. And, some coaches are simply more or less organized than others, stay ahead or lag behind in the recruiting process and are more assertive or passive in their recruiting activities according to their experience and personality. Keep these things in mind when wondering why coaches are not contacting you as much as you thought they might. Regardless, clearly your role is to keep your profile up-to-date so that when coaches are in their Recruiting Cycle, they can quickly evaluate you based on current info.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT COLLEGE RECRUITING IN GENERAL, WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.

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