<p>@Kgbmomma, could not agree more!</p>
<p>My son is a senior in HS. He is hoping to be recruited for Shot Put. Anyone have any info on schools/recruitment on this in the Northeast?</p>
<p>Hi thrower1,
Welcome to CC! You might want to start your own thread with the words Shot Put and Northeast in the title, to attract more responses. </p>
<p>It should be pretty easy to look at performances of current throwers at the schools he’s thinking about, and their graduation year, since teams without younger throwers will be most interested in filling spots.<br>
This is time consuming, but not difficult work: just go to each school’s track and field page, and look at the roster, and the results of end-of-season competitions from last spring to figure out how competitive each league is.</p>
<p>Your son can fill out the recruiting questions for schools that look like a match. Coaches will contact him if they’re interested. If he has specific favorite schools, he can also email the coaches directly and introduce himself, including his athletic and academic stats.</p>
<p>Best wishes!</p>
<p>Did your athlete qualify for states?
Does the athlete do more than one event? Discus? Javelin?</p>
<p>College shot puts increase to 16 lbs…coach needs to see your height/weight and lifting records, along with your current throw records and good grades.</p>
<p>Did you know Track and field/cross country are an equivalency sport? A coach can divide the total number of scholarships the school has to offer into partial amounts.</p>
<p>He missed states by very little- forget the number. He was called the other night by 2 coaches - 1 being one of his top choices. The other school was a reach school but attainable. Both offered OV’s. He has won some big events in shot put. We are still in the process of looking at schools & speaking with coaches. Football takes up a huge amount of his time. Most coaches we have had contact with via email have expressed interest. We will see where this leads us…</p>
<p>thrower
Congrats on getting the calls. Use these offers of official visits as updates or reasons to make contact with other schools that the athlete finds interesting/close proximity.</p>
<p>Take the visits…Be relentless w/ communication at the top choice.</p>
<p>Once ice breaks with one offer… word will get out and more usually follow.</p>
<p>Football must mean he has the size.</p>
<p>For anyone to question the validity of sites like NCSA and Berecruited simply means that they have not yet used the service. I have utilized BOTH services and have learned so much from NCSA and Berecruited. For those with dreams of FBS scholarship offers in football, you may come away unfulfilled, however, for those that are looking for visibility to Mid-Major as well as FCS, Division II, III, JUCO and NAIA schools, these site a saviors.</p>
<p>Any exposure to college coaches is a chance to be seen whereas the schools with small recruiting budgets actually utilize these services.</p>
<p>Example: My son, played sparingly in high school and did not start until midway through his senior season. Thanks to NCSASports.org, Berecruited.com, and a Gap year playing football in prep school, my son now posesses multiple scholarship offers to the following schools: UConn, Boston College, and Syracuse, which are FBS schools with nice academic requirements. In addition to those, he has also received offers from Dartmouth, Columbia, Colgate, Sacred Heart, Villanova, and has been recruited aggressively by Div II schools like Abilene Christian, Harding University (Ark), West Texas A&M and a multitude of Div III colleges as well. The offers not only come from my son’s athletic and academic highlights, but also from the exposure provided by NCSA and Berecruited.</p>
<p>My D is on berecruited…one season of track and she is being seriously recruited by a D1 school and a couple of D3 schools. If she wasn’t on berecruited.com, not sure she would be in the pleasant situation she is in now!</p>
<p>Seems to me that it depends on who’s doing the searching in this relationship. </p>
<p>A student-athlete who has thoughtfully created a list of prospective colleges can easily get on the coaches’ radars via email, visits, letters or recruiting forms.</p>
<p>If you’d rather have the college find your S or D then you may have to use a service (unless he/she is nationally ranked).</p>
<p>The new design of berecruited.com makes it a great resource for student-athletes. There is relevant information on the schools that offer each sport, including academic and admissions information. My daughter used the site for research and contacted the coaches at schools she was interested in. Although you can get the information on each schools website, it is really nice to have all the info in one spot. And she was contacted by many coaches from schools that were not on her radar. She had mixed results with filling out recruiting forms, some coaches use them, many don’t. As far as results go, 516 coach views later, my daughter recently signed a National Letter of Intent to attend the school whose coach was the first one to contact her through her berecruited.com profile.</p>
<p>^^^fishymom: I love how funny fate can be, with your daughter ending up going to her very first on-line contact school 
It is cool, when you think of all that goes on between that first contact/start of recruiting, and where the student ends up - all of the other schools that get involved, dreams, hopes, offers, etc. So happy for your daughter - and for you!!</p>
<p>Hello everyone. I am new to this site but have already read some great advice. Wish I had seen it sooner. Spoke with NCSA last night and am unsure if their service is worth it. My son is a senior. He agreed to speak with the coach about a track scholarship. His grades are good but SATs were not. According to the coach, my son will qualify fopr some scholarships at different schools. The phone interview sounded great for an hour and I was not surprised when I was told of the nontrivial fee for the service. </p>
<p>Any advice…think it is too late?</p>
<p>loosingitmom
How much did the NCSA cost? I thought about calling them. My oldest son graduated 3 years ago and we used The College Recruiting Network. They did a good job. He got into a d3 school for football when I didn’t think he had a chance. I will probably call them back but I wanted to check on NCSA. I think I paid $500 for the other service. As far as your son goes it’s never too late. My oldest signed a month before school started.
Don’t give up!</p>
<p>We used NCSA for S2 for soccer and it was tremendously helpful. We didn’t have the time to organize a site like they provided. When he had a coach interested he would just email the profile and all the information was readily available (Transcripts, scores, tournaments, awards, videos, etc). They would also do an email blast to schools where he qualified and he did get a lot of interest out of state where coaches are looking for CA kids.
The recruiting coach we worked with at NCSA was great and helped keep our S2 focused and gave great advice on what to do during visits and all the questions to ask and what not to ask. Now he is helping on the negotiating process.
It was a bit expensive but for us and our lack of time when the process began it was a very worthwhile investment.</p>
<p>is berecruited $60 a year, or $60 one-time? right now it says $15/month $60/one time. is this true, if so is this just a temporary thing or is it always a single payment of $60? (will i have to pay $60 a year)</p>
<p>See a lot of posts regarding athletic recruiting services. From what i have gathered, coaches prefer to see a student (or a student’s coach) show a demonstrated interest in their athletic program. So, giant recruiting services that send out mass emails are not always the right move for student athletes who would most likely benefit from personally reaching out to college coaches. That is not to say that part of what athletic recruiting services offer isn’t valuable. As I see it, the value in ncsa.com, berecruited.com and other comparable sites is they compile all relevant information in an easily navigable digital format that could make a coaches job easier in that college coaches would not have to rifle through thousands of DVDs and paper resumes. </p>
<p>Athletes SHOULD make a website. Again, they make a college coaches job easier–something that is very important as coaches do not have a lot of time. Athletes who do not have the time or expertise to make a site should look into other services. Some sites are really reasonable. There’s a site that does this for athletes that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg (College Bound Designs…they have a sample athlete site under their portfolio section). They create athlete websites (portfolios) that have all of an athlete’s important info. The websites are housed on a URL that is a variation of the athletes name (i.e. [Welcome</a> to JoeSmith.com](<a href=“http://www.joesmith.com%5DWelcome”>http://www.joesmith.com)). This is importnat! It allows athletes to appear in google search results and also gives athletes a website that they can include in a PERSONAL email to a coach. The website makes it easy for coaches but as its being sent by students, students still personalize themselves to college coaches. From what i have gathered this personalization is extremely important to many coaches. Think of it this way, if a college coaches inbox has 30 emails from a recruiting service and one email from a student or coach, which email do you think a college coach is going to look at if they have limited time? </p>
<p>Also, websites are a great way to go because athletes can update their reels and stats throughout the season without having to send another DVD to a coach. Coaches just have to refer back to one website throughout the whole recruiting process. </p>
<p>That’s my two cents.</p>
<p>@FirmBeliever-</p>
<p>Thanks for touting a service in your first-ever post to CC! It sounds just exactly like this is your business. If it is not, please accept my apology. If it is, you should have said so. Just my two cents…</p>
<p>We didn’t use a service. Just filled out the recruiting forms for the colleges he wanted to attend. Cost nothing, didn’t take more than a few minutes. Coaches e-mailed back, and voila!</p>
<p>Hmmm Seems there are SEVERAL one time posters here touting a certain company…
which is ADVERTISING!!!
and NOT allowed…
Pleas stop spamming the threads with your “testimonials”</p>
<p>Coaching staffs exhaust every source of potential players. We have attended four D1 schools so far and, in each case, the AD and Head Coach have stated that they rely on information obtained through all reliable sources. Each coach usually has a short list of people they trust to go out and recruit or at least identify good talent.</p>