<p>Thanks for all the comments guys!!! Would anyone like to read my letters to the coaches I’m going to send?</p>
<p>anyone???</p>
<p>Maybe you should hold off on the letter. Even put it away for a year and then come back. When you make a first impression you should want to put your best foot forward. A freshman jv starter with not even a year of high school grades is not comparable to a Varsity sophomore starter with decent marks. Cultivating your budding talent should be at the top of your concerns. </p>
<p>Patience really is key.</p>
<p>A figure I have heard for basketball is roughly 1 in 100 varsity seniors will be D1 players … in the 12 team league my son plays in about 12 kids have been D1 players over the last 10 years … about 1 a year across 12 teams. Across the 12 teams I’d guess 4-6 freshman are on varisty rosters and another 25 or so freshman are on JV rosters. Being a JV starter as a freshman is a terrific start … and D1 might be a possibility … however the odds are pretty long. I’d also suggest that you consider D2 and D3 schools … if you like Princeton I would think you would like a lot of the D3 NESCAC schools (Williams, Amherst, etc) which still play terrific college bball … but whom are much more reachable for players.</p>
<p>definitely email him with information and go to any camps that this coach will be at so you will be on their radar before sept 1 of your junior year… by that time they will know everything and may be ready to recruit you right off the bat.</p>
<p>Realistically, you probably aren’t even finished growing. You don’t know what your abilities will be in a year or two. You should be concentrating on excellence in your sport and in school at this point. </p>
<p>Coaches focus their recruiting on HS juniors and seniors who are at or near the performance level of their existing team. They have a way of finding out about superstars who are freshman and sophomore, but these are truly rare.</p>