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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with the above - this is VERY sport-specific. Football is different than rowing, which is different than lacrosse. And boys and girls recruiting are also quite different for a variety of reasons.

Keep this process narrow and local at first. Start by identifiying which older kids on your DC's club and high school teams went on to play at the college level in the past 1-5 years.

Make a list of the schools and the kids, reach out to a few of those kids' parents (ask the coaches to make intros, if necessary), and ask them about their experience and what you and your DC need to know as you get started.

Our experience is that parents who have been through it already are very generous and willing to share what they've learned. It's a long and exhausting process, and it feels good to pass along to those coming up next.

Also, there are often strong pipelines from certain clubs and high schools to specific college teams. You want to leverage all of that first to understand the process, then expand to a broader search, if needed.

Good luck. Again, it's exhausting and when all is said and done, the ROI is often much, much smaller than people realize. [/quote]

I was surprised by the pipeline, though I shouldn’t have been I suppose. My son will be a D3 baseball player in the fall, and the offer he accepted was because the college coach called his buddy the travel coach and asked who he had at my son’s position and year. They basically arranged the marriage. School wasn’t really on son’s radar, but he was thrilled. All of the emailing and camps he did got plenty of responses but it was totally random who got back to him and who didn’t. Many of the schools where he should have been seen as an immediate impact player never responded to him. My guess is every school has their regular pipeline, and then they fill in with interesting kids they get emails from/see at camps, etc.[/quote]

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