<p>I'm a senior swimmer this year, and have been talking to a few coaches in D3, mostly reach schools to help me get in. A couple months ago, I contacted an assistant coach with my times, and he seemed very interested. He wanted me to do an official visit (overnight, 48 hours), but we have had a lot of issues scheduling this trip. I had to retake the SATs this saturday, which is when he wanted to do a trip.
Furthermore, he has been a bit slow on either responding to phone calls, or calling me when he says he will (He said last tuesday he would call on Thurs/Fri, but never did.). Also, the girl's team coach recently died, which seems to have caused a lot of issues in the athletic department. I am extremely confused/frustrated, is this coach still interested in recruiting me? I've already filled out the ED decision on this school, and I'm starting to feel like he doesn't want me anymore...</p>
<p>I wouldn’t take their lackluster response time as an indicator of their interest necessarily. They are probably very busy with finding a replacement coach and dealing with the loss and are putting recruiting on the back burner for a little bit. This happened to me when the assistant coach I had been talking to quit and then I didn’t hear from the team for a long time (about a month) but when I did hear back they were very interested in me and offered me an OV. So I wouldn’t be too worried about it. Give them a call and ask them what is going on.</p>
<p>On a side note, You should definitely make their OV date work because they see that as a very big indicator of how interested you are in their team and if you keep blowing them off they will find someone else who will make their OV date work.</p>
<p>fogfog- I haven’t, but this is a D3 school. I’ve already told the AC that I am applying ED. Also, I’m a guy, if it wasn’t evident in my post. Will that affect his response time even if it was the girls’ coach who died? Furthermore, he did not call me today, and he said he’d call thurs/fri last week to schedule a trip for THIS week, so should I be worried? I live only 3 hours away from the school (NYU), so it wouldn’t take much planning</p>
<p>brandnew- I have tried, the only time that I told him would not work is Oct. 1 (last weekend). On the phone, he had time and time again told me he would like to make this work to make my schedule. IS it possible I’m handling these situations wrong?</p>
<p>I think D3 coaches do not have the ability to have pull in admissions like D1.</p>
<p>If you committed to applying ED…what’s the point of going to the school to visit…the coach doesn’t need to sell you on the school.
It is on your dime, they can’t pay for your travel etc. right?</p>
<p>Where are your times compared to the top of their current squad?</p>
<p>ED is when these DIII coaches can help the most, as I understand it. If an applicant is going to forge ahead with ED, it could only help to have the coach’s support. OP, I can fully imagine that the swimming program is in a bit of disarray right now, and it’s widely known that most of these schools don’t have budgetary support for a staff of recruiters. Have you considered writing an email that very honestly expresses both interest, understanding and concern about the lack of contact? It seems like that could help.</p>
<p>^ Good point.
Perhaps OP might want to call coach as well.</p>
<p>I can understand how the disarray on the side of the swimming and athletic dept will bump up against the ED deadline.<br>
The good news is the coach can put the OPs name down as a recruit on a list and hope that helps bump the OP in admissions between Nov 1 and Dec 15…
The question at hand seems to be how does the OP get some focused attention/response from the coach with so much going on…I like the email idea and think a phone call to let the coach know the email is there and needs attention is worth the effort. The subject line should saysomething like
Time sensitive: xyz Name, recruit ED applicant…</p>
<p>fogfog- My times from 7 months ago in my best event are on the top 5 list. With my times that I am hopefully going to achieve, I will be an easy 2nd place, if not first in that event. In the other events that I swim, I’m about 10th on a range of 20 swimmers, and this is with times from mid junior year, so I feel that I will be about top 1/4 of the team by the end of this year’s high school season. I AM committed to ED, I have called tuesday just expressing interest in doing the trip. Should I email again tomorrow if I don’t get a call back? Also, I am confused. Does ED help me or not with swimming assistance to get in?</p>