<p>Is there such a thing as an early verbal in rowing? My frame of reference is baseball, and those athletes are committing earlier and earlier every year - some as early as sophomore year. I also know a soccer player who committed to Duke in October of her Junior year.</p>
<p>So, my question to the rowing community, is in your experience, is the rowing recruiting timeframe accelerating into Junior year, or is it remaining Senior Fall?</p>
<p>depends on the athlete. it’s most sports. the better the athlete the earlier the so called “verbal”</p>
<p>and I’ll throw another idea in the mix, the “early watched”. now that my daughter has kind of matriculated to college the full story comes out from junior and college coaches, they noticed her on a national team between her freshman and sophomore year of high school when she was 14 (started HS at 13), and they had been watching her since.</p>
<p>There is one school that tries to push potential recruits to commit verbally as early as possible (i.e. during junior year); however, while many schools try to finalize their class by early October, recruitment goes on well into the winter or even later. Although top recruits are on the radar for a while, given that each school recruits a full boat load, there are plenty of spots for “late-discovered talent.” You pull one fast erg time, and coaches will be interested.</p>
<p>beenthere2,</p>
<p>I understand if you don’t want to but would you mind sharing with us which school pushes potential recruits to verbally commit during their junior year? I feel like that’s good info to know.</p>
<p>You should go to the NCAA site and get the guidelines. Since rowing is an NCAA sport there are guidelines that must be followed…coaches can’t call your daughter til July 1 after Jr year for example…
As for verballing, a student has nothing til they have something. There are many threads here which tell the tale…</p>
<p>fog is right, you don’t have anything until a LL or similar is in hand. But it’s a good sign to have coaches after you, your junior year. </p>
<p>Let’s see, in rowing, only half the sport is NCAA. Light weight women and men are IRA. It had something to do with Yale and Harvard and a fight with the NCAA back in the day, so they formed there on league the IRA.</p>
<p>from my experience multiple coaches/colleges push for Junior year “verbals” from the top athletes in all sports. Football to rowing.</p>
<p>Some colleges offer junior days early in February/March.</p>