If your child was a recruited athlete
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Anonymous
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Any advice?
We are getting out first couple contacts by schools and have no idea how any of this works. |
Anonymous
| D1 or D3? What grade is your athlete? Are they definite contacts or email invites to stuff? |
Anonymous
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PP here, I would run it all by the coaches - school and club - depending on the sport. Where do the schools reaching out rank? Are any of interest to your DK? If not, they should send a quick thank you email back. See this website: https://blog.prepscholar.com/how-does-college-recruiting-work-athletic-complete-process
For example, DS got interest from top D3 schools his sophomore year and a few "wink and nod" we can't talk to you, but we want you to know about this event we have" emails, and now has some D1 interest but was told by coaches to wait and keep playing and see what happens this fall. Also, unless it's men's football/basketball, your kid will need some sort of test score to show pretty quickly if they're a junior. A strong PSAT would be okay. |
Anonymous
| Which sport. It does vary by sport. |
Anonymous
| Helmet sports get recruited early. So depends on sports and whether D1 or D3. |
Anonymous
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Where does DC truly fit in the recruited pecking order?
If DC is going to be recruited most anywhere they apply, that is a different situation from getting early interest by a specific school in hopes that DC has a 4.0 to raise the team GPA and get a $1k "scholarship" to ride the pine. |
Anonymous
| College Confidential has an athletic recruit section. |
Anonymous
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Mine was recruited for 2 D! sports -- FH and crew. If I were you OP, I would buy some used books on Amazon about the process...that's what we did. Also, look on the NCAA website for all of the information they have. You can "good around" too to find what you need.
Do you have a girl or boy? Private or public? What sport? Grades? Top SATs? How good at the sport? Ivies have "bands" that you can read about. |
Anonymous
| Meant "google around" above in pp |
Anonymous
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I would talk to parents of other kids that play your kid's sport that were are a year or two ahead of your kid. Especially if the kid is from the same high school or club team. These parents have been there done that so that knowledge is really helpful. In our case the other parents put us in touch with a recruiter -- we would have never realized how beneficial that was in reaching out to coaches. Also learned a lot about the whole process from talking to the college coaches that the recruiter put us in touch with.
The other bit of advice is to start really early. If your child is considering playing a college sport then they are probably very dedicated to training and it will be very difficult to find windows of opportunity to visit colleges. You need to do that early -- rule out schools that your kids doesn't like and figure out the type of school they want to attend. And make sure that you know academically what schools match your child. Coaches have some pull, but you need to be in the range. Unless you are the top of the top. Lastly, make sure your kid likes the school in addition to being able to play a sport. |
Anonymous
| You can look at college rosters online for the various teams OP and also your child can communicate with the coach online. |
Anonymous
This first official contact was from D3, weirdly, not in football which is his more serious sport, but instead throwing. We’ve already been talking to his football coach about possible D2s so this was unexpected. |
Anonymous
Kid’s scores are, frankly, pretty bad. This interest is all athletic, 0% academic. |
Anonymous
Oh okay cool. Will check it out. |
Anonymous
Any specific book? |