<p>Can someone explain to me how the Patriot League recruiting process works? Like, how does commiting work, is more like the Ivy likely letter system or more like the nescac slot and tip system? I haven't found much info out there so any advice would be great. Also, if it helps, i'm a track and field athlete. Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>My son was recruited by traditoinal D1, D1 Ivy, D1 Patriot, traditional D3 and D3 NESCAC for baseball. We found Patriot League recruiting to be most like traditional D1 recruiting overall with D1 timetables and showcases. They want to see how you perform at your sport, and they will do an academic pre-read with SATS and high school transcript. The coach is trying to get the best athlete he can get through Admissions who has the final say. My son did an OV to a Patriot League school. I think alot of the committment discussions and verbals happened at that time. Son wanted to go in a diiferent direction, so he did not pursue past the OV.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine track being much different from baseball as there are no scholarships available. I’ve read that scholarships are available to Patriot schools for football and basketball. </p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>What is “OV”? Is there someplace that explains the “usual D1 timing and showcase”? This would be for tennis and it’s a fall sport for us.</p>
<p>OV is an official visit. You will see if referenced quite a bit here. Official Visit is an NCAA “contact” term where the recruit visits the college campus. The college pays for your transportation, room and board while visiting the college. Before a college may invite you to an OV, you have to provide transcipts for (D1 only) and SAT or ACT. In addition, you need to register with the NCAA Eligibility Center. Official Visits can be contrasted with un-official visit whereby you visit the college and possibly meet with the coach but you pick up the expense. There are pros and cons to both OV and non-OV, and many people do both. I suggest you google and download the NCAA College Bound Student Athlete to become more familiar with many of the recruiting terms or rules.</p>
<p>My understanding is there are no showcases in tennis. So the typical local, regional, national rankings and tournaments results and rankings become important for exposure purposes. So coaches may come watch you play in L1 L2 tournaments, so they can watch multiple players they may be interested in recruiting.</p>
<p>D. is a track athlete who had contact with a number of Patriot League schools–Colgate, Bucknell, Lehigh, Lafayette, and Holy Cross. She had made initial contact through the schools’ athletic recruit websites and via email in June after her junior year season. Other than an acknowledgement of receipt of that information, these schools were later than the D3 schools she had contacted in communicating back with her. Most of these coaches reached out in mid-August; Bucknell in early September. We had thought there was no interest, so were pleasantly surprised when she began hearing from all of them. On the other hand, by that point she had other schools she was interested in. Lehigh, Lafayette, and Bucknell came off the list. We visited Colgate and met with the coach, who invited her back for an OV, but she never scheduled it. He told us he had five spots to fill and he was looking for a commitment. (FWIW, she applied to the school and was admitted.) In comparison, Bucknell fields a huge team; my impression there was that had she applied and been admitted, there would have been a spot for her.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice guys, especially minoafrau. I was starting to get worried that the Patriot League coaches weren’t interested in me. Luckily, today I just got a call from Colgate that went well. So thanks again for calming me down.</p>