<p>A very general article about the recruiting process. I especially like the idea of registering for google news...</p>
<p>Navigating</a> New Landscapes in College Athletics Recruiting | InsideLacrosse.com</p>
<p>Thanks for posting this…</p>
<p>Excellent article. Wish I had read it 3 years ago. It says everything I want to tell families who don’t understand why college coaches aren’t pounding on their door.</p>
<p>Other tips: </p>
<p>Create Google News daily searches for your sport or event (“lacrosse” or “High jump”) or for each named school you are interested in. </p>
<p>We asked for advice from a former coach at one of our alma maters. Our athlete was not considering that school, and we asked for advice on how recruiting works–and how to read between the lines of a coach’s email. </p>
<p>In terms of studying coaches and programs: study the rosters to see if they recruit from particular regions. Of course, try to gauge how many vacancies there will be in your recruit year. Look also at a series of rosters to see if players stay or leave. If you can, watch them coach a game. Are they screamers? Calm? Will your player be able to work with the coach’s demeanor? Watching a league championship game is the best!</p>
<p>I wish he had elaborated more on his last point about having the courage to experience some grey areas in order to make an impression and separate oneself from the pack. I’d love to know to what kinds of things he was referring and would be interested to hear from CCers about the grey areas they’ve encountered in recruiting. This intrigues me because I’d admit that the only reason my D was able to ultimately sign with the school she did was that we were willing to tolerate the riskiness of grey for a while. Mostly, we were unsure of the degree of the coach’s interest and whether he was being honest or not about their timeline. The point about asking probing questions was important too, because doing that was how we muddled through the initial fog into clarity. (CC folks helped a lot also!)</p>
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<p>I think both of these are critical, especially with limited roster teams. I’d even go one further and ask about how many players a coach already has in line for your recruited year. If there is a recruiting website of some sort for your sport, I’d try to look back and see if there are recruitment rosters listed by school. (some bigger programs list their incoming recruits in news releases via websites). Seems to me that if a school recruits 14 kids a year for 11 spots, four players are not going to continue their sport in college, especially at the DIII level where there is no athletic scholarship.</p>