<p>Let's try to amend the acceptance threads to athletic recruitment.....</p>
<p>[ size=+1][ color=#228B22][ b]School: ___________[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Info:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Sport:
[ *] Mens or Womens:
[ *] Division (1, 1A, 2, 3, NAIA):
[ *] Position (if applicable):
[ *] Early Decision or Regular Decision:
[ *] Tell us about your recruiting process:
[ *] Other thoughts/suggestions to potential recruits/words of wisdom:</p>
<p>School:<strong><em>Williams</em></strong>_____</p>
<p>Info:[list]
[ <em>] Sport: Track and Football
[</em>] Mens or Womens: Men
[<em>]Division (1, 1A, 2, 3, NAIA): D3
[</em>] Position (if applicable): Guard
[<em>] Early Decision or Regular Decision: RD
[</em>] Tell us about your recruiting process: Crazy process with a lot of ups and downs. I was also recruited by and accepted by: Williams (of course lol), Brown, UChicago, Upenn, Johns Hopkins, Emory, UCSD, UCI, UCR.
[*] Other thoughts/suggestions to potential recruits/words of wisdom: Dont be afraid to ask coaches questions or talk to them. I did all of this on my own, you dont need those professional recuriting services. Just email, call, and try to see the coaches. Thats all I did. I am good at both sports but if I had just sat idle and waited for coaches to come to me than I would prolly be attending a local state school not playing any sport. My parents didnt help at all either. Just be smart when talking to coaches, use guile and always be respectful and courteous to coaches.</p>
<p>School: University of Washington</p>
<p>Info:
** Sport:** Rowing
** Men’s or Women’s:** Men’s (Even though I’m a girl!)
** Division (1, 1A, 2, 3, NAIA):** 1
** Position (if applicable):** Coxswain
** Early Decision or Regular Decision:** Regular (Accepted in November – it’s rolling admissions up there!)
** Tell us about your recruiting process:** It was crazy! It’s really difficult to be recruited as a coxswain – there were many ups and downs. I got my resumes out to many different coaches, but only around 3 schools followed up seriously. A lot of times, coaches expressed interest only to tell me two weeks later that they weren’t actually able to offer me any sort of tip. I did get support at Harvard, but it was a crazy year for admissions, so the support wasn’t enough to get me in. I wasn’t really upset, though, since I figured that there was around a 93% chance I wouldn’t get in anyway. Besides, now I don’t have to figure out how to lug my stuff all the way across the country!
** Other thoughts/suggestions to potential recruits/words of wisdom:** Be prepared for coaches changing their minds! A lot of times, they told me promising things during our initial meetings but would follow up with an email that seemed completely opposite to what we had talked about. Also, don’t be afraid to ask your coaches for help! Your coaches will often have friends who coach at colleges – after the UW coaches missed my emails (which I had sent during the summer Olympics, so they were all in Beijing, pretty much), my head coach put a call in to her friend, the freshman men’s coach, after my mother mentioned that they hadn’t responded. Within a week, I was given a full tip for the team. Don’t be nervous about emailing lots of coaches, either. Write a form letter and send it to every school that you’re interested in! Make sure to attach your EC resume and race resume, too!</p>
<p>Another thing: If you’re a girl, don’t be afraid to approach the coach of the men’s team, if that’s what you want to go for. Some colleges recruit only women to cox their men. Guys, if you want to work with the women’s team, go for it! There are a lot of coaches who really value that diversity – just put yourself out there. It’s really a no-lose situation: you become a lot more comfortable with “marketing” yourself (I had a really hard time with it at first, but it became much easier after the fourth letter or so), and you may even get yourself a pretty-much guaranteed slot in the freshman class at a great college out of it!</p>
<p>I have a request. Could you all please also add whether or not you received any athletic scholarship money (if DI/II) and, if so, how much. Did you received merit and or need/based money in addition? If you were DIII, did you receive merit/need-based and do you feel some of this might have been related to your being a recruited athlete (I know it is pc to say that doesn’t happen, but that is not the reality).</p>
<p>D2 will be going OOS to play DI soccer. Can’t list where as her identity would be known. The process was relatively easy. She was heavily recruited through college showcase tournaments. Advice would be to contact every school you are interested in with emails and player profiles. Her total COA will be covered with Athletic and Merit aid (75%-25%).</p>
<p>oh…she verballed the late winter/early spring of her junior year and acceptance was early fall.</p>
<p>Wow 75% is a lot for a soccer scholarship. I hear for men it’s usually about 30% for freshmen. So…your daughter verballed before her junior spring season. That’s what I though…sophomore spring and summer is a very important season indeed! Did your daughter attend a camp at the school she was interested in or was it just through showcases and tournies? Did she contact the coaches of the schools she was interested in before the tournaments to let them know she would be there?</p>
<p>HS season is in the fall here. Club runs all year EXCEPT during HS season (August through November or whenever your HS team is out of State playoffs). Sophomore summer and Junior winter showcases were extremely important/beneficial for her. Her teams traveled to tournaments in Florida, Nevada, Texas, California, Nebraska, Arizona, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. She also plays in a competitive spring/summer league that travels throughout the Midwest.Most are NOT recruited from HS teams. She did not attend any camps or send any video. Yes, she contacted most of the coaches before attending showcases but was also contacted by coaches who happened to see her play.She had not contacted the coach of the school where she will attend, he saw her play and started emailing her. Girls soccer is crazy with early commitments. If you check out this link you can see early verbals for 2010 and 2011 already.
[Women’s</a> Soccer Recruiting - Google Docs](<a href=“http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=poknaL_RaORDOMcyz_riBDA&gid=0]Women’s”>http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=poknaL_RaORDOMcyz_riBDA&gid=0)</p>
<p>I don’t know how early men commit. My son is a sophomore. His school season is fall, and it is true that you don’t really get recruited from high school (public at least). My son plays school soccer for a strong prep school conference and guys are recruited DI occasionally, but not as often as from club. He also plays club and part time academy (can’t do full time because of prep school). I was wondering if it was common to verbal before spring of the junior year. Sounds like it is (at least for women).</p>
<p>Check out the men’s forum on Bigsoccer. They can probably answer any questions there.</p>
<p>don’t worry about the early commit thing … it is really only a small percentage of recruits, usually D1 and only the very best players (who know early where they want to play or go to school ). Just make sure you start your research on schools and programs – Junior year is probably the most important for getting on the coaches radar screen. Junior year is also key for grades and SAT scores etc as well.</p>