^^ Yea!! Glad everything is falling into place.
Fwiw, I would not make an announcement or do anything public until I had an acceptance letter in hand. The school may not be ready to go public with this, and you would be starting off on bad footing if that’s the case. Especially if the admissions office hasn’t yet signed it’s letter…
Thanks. No worries. My player has previously received a conditional letter from Admissions and approval from Coach for announcement.
Congrats to you and yours @doublebach
Congrats. I’m surprised your school is having a signing ceremony so soon because I think the national letter of intent day is in early February. That’s when our HS is having our signing day.
^ there is a s week in November where all sports but football, soccer and waterpolo IIRC can sign. Then I think those sports close again until sometime in April?
Absolutely agree if it’s a D3 in a conference such as NESCAC that strongly discourages same - if your kid has waited this long to finalize, then no reason not to wait until the ED acceptance comes out in December.
Here’s the link to the NLI Future Signing Dates calendar (which includes the Div I/II schools’ November “Early Period” for most sports as noted by Ohiodad51 above): http://www.nationalletter.org/signingDates/index.html
Seems most high schools in my area use that first Wednesday in February to have an “NLI Day” celebration for the seniors who will be playing varsity sports in college whether they are actually signing an NLI or not or playing D1, 2 or 3.
Our school had the big signing celebration on the spring signing day in April. Others had signed earlier and decided not to do the ‘re-enactment’ in April, but many wanted to join in the fun even if they’d already signed in Nov, Feb, or weren’t officially signing
One school here has so many athletes they do a big celebration on all signing dates, complete with local news coverage. The biggest of the three is probably the Nov signing with 40 or so, then football/soccer with another 10, and then everyone else in the spring.
^is the spring signing date a big thing? Most of the kids I know (except a couple baseball players) who signed in sports other than football signed in November. I guess I just assumed that was more of a “clean up” period than a significant date?
Track typically goes in Spring as Indoor Season can be make or break.
Our school did the big deal for spring signing because we also included all the D3s, jucos, community colleges, and of course Miss Navy. The kids had the choice of participating even if they had signed in Nov. I think in Nov there were about 10 who actually signed (4 female rowers, 4 lax, maybe 2 others). By the spring, there were about 30 at the ceremony.
The neighboring high school did it in a different way. Each kid who signed had a solo celebration at the school, but not on the day of signing. A club teammate of my D’s, and now her college teammate, signed in Nov but had her school party in Jan.