Do you guys know how to sign up to be recruited so that smaller schools with smaller recruiting programs can see you?
<p>I wouls suggest that you move your question to the parents forum since there are a number of parents posing who went through the process with their kids.</p>
<p>thanks for the suggestion, i will</p>
<p>Recruiting varies from sport to sport and from division to division and from school to school.</p>
<p>If you're a rising senior, you better get moving. If by "smaller schools with smaller recruiting programs" you mean Division III, the recruiting season for 2006 is heating up now. For DI and DII it has been underway for awhile, but depending on the sport, there are still opportunities for '06's. Different sports move at different paces.</p>
<p>Gather your list of schools and get to work contacting the coaches directly. Attach your sports resume and, if you have one, a transcript (so the coaches can determine if you are in the ball park admissions-wise), otherwise be sure to include your SAT/ACT scores and gpa on your sports resume. Offer to send a video, if you have one, and ask if they prefer VHS or DVD.</p>
<p>Don't send the same generic email to every coach. Division III coaches especially like to know that you are interested in their program and school specifically and not just sending out 1,000 emails in bulk. </p>
<p>The golden rule in my daughter's sport (volleyball) is unless you are "Top 100" type prep athlete, you must contact the coaches yourself, not wait for them to discover you. There are too many thousands of athletes. </p>
<p>DIII coaches can be very hit or miss when it comes to replying to emails and online forms that recruits fill out. If you don't hear from a coach after contacting them, try again. If you are really interested in a school and have carefully checked out their program and think you could fulfill a need, keep trying -- my daughter often had better luck with phoning coaches then emailing them. Some responded to snail mail but not email, some vice versa. </p>
<p>If you are not a rising senior, NCAA restricts the types of communication a coach may have with a recruit. See the NCAA website for more information: <a href="http://www2.ncaa.org/index_students_parents.php%5B/url%5D">http://www2.ncaa.org/index_students_parents.php</a></p>
<p>Go to the colleges athletic programs website. You should see somewhere on there, a form about recruiting. They should contact you some time after you fill out the form, of which you will most likely talk to a coach. Oh you will probably need to tell your coach about this ahead of time, just incase they contact him, so he will be ready when the call.</p>
<p>I am a rising senior that plays basketball fairly well but not D1 or D2 level. I am a stellar student and would play for a school like D3 MIT or some place like that... academics first</p>
<p>Check out your academic match and reach DIII's basketball programs. Look at the rosters, look at the heights of the players, read their bios, see what awards they got as prep athletes, look to see which year the players who play your position are going into, look at the team stats. To get recruited, you have to fill a need. Try to zero in on the programs where you think you can actually help the team, not just be another body clamboring for court time. If it's one of the DIII schools that "tag" recruited athletes, that's your goal. Some coaches have no pull at all with admissions but many do and some have quite a bit. I'm going to take a wild guess (and it <em>is</em> a guess) and say that MIT coaches probably don't have a great deal of pull with admissions, but even where the coaches don't have a lot of pull, if you are squarely in the ballpark with admissions, adding to their sports program could tip the adcom your way. Be sure to thoroughly check out the NESCAC schools <a href="http://www.nescac.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.nescac.com/</a> and the UAA schools <a href="http://www.uaa.rochester.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.uaa.rochester.edu/</a></p>
<p>Since academics come first, you can wait to contact safeties until after you've exhausted contacting your reach/match schools' coaches, on the theory that getting recruited to your dream school is a higher priority than getting recruited to your safety school.</p>
<p>Hey, I'm in the same situation you are in. What I did was fill out the recruiting questionaires on colleges that I was interested in. I also attended some camps where there were a lot of college coaches and I tried to get in touch with them there. Just ask them to put you on their mailing list, they'll stay in touch with you. Most of the time they will send mail inviting you to open houses and to visit, remember to bring along a game tape and transcript. </p>
<p>Don't look too closely at the players' heights and weights. I know for a fact that many players on the NESCAC school rosters have exagerrated numbers... for example, one recent alum from my school was listed as a 6'2 255lb DE, but when I saw him in person, he was at most 6'0, 230lbs.</p>
<p>BTW- I just thought of a question:
Which one would you rather choose?</p>
<p>College A- very good academic school, close to home, perfect match for applicant, but where a coach has not shown too much interest and possibly have to walk on for sports team</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>College B- also very good academic school, far from home, not as great a match for the applicant, but coach has called and shown special interest.</p>
<p>?</p>
<p>College A id have to say... definately</p>
<p>wraider2006 is absolutely right on the height/weight issue. They are usually inflated. Adjust downward accordingly. Most athletes are measured with shoes on, so there's a legitimate inch; then the coach adds a little bit more, and now a 5'11" player is 6'1". Also, especially with DIII's, there are often anomalies--a whole bunch of guards listed over 6' and one guy listed at 5'9". Check his stats, see if he plays. If you have hops, that matters too.</p>
<p>College "A" is the right choice! Always go for that one. If you don't believe me, take a hard look at the rosters for these DIII school -- how many seniors do you see? One or two or even sometimes none are not unusual. The question should always be, "which school would I pick if I couldn't play?" Still, if you can do both, that's great.</p>
<p>I'm a Brit hoping to study in the U.S. but was wondering exactly how common rugby is out there, and to what standard it is generally played</p>
<p>Well I'm 5' 10'' have a really good 3 shot, and got good hops, i can dunk.</p>
<p>haz1905 - My dad is British (but has lived in the U.S. since the 1950's) and played rugby in his university days. Up untill about 20 years ago (I'm an old fart) it was extremely rare to come across anyone who knew what rugby is. If it hadn't been for the Andes plane crash and the resulting bumper sticker (rugby players eat their dead) and the follow-up bumper sticker (it takes leather balls to play rugby) no one here would yet know what it is. However, the bumper stickers made it a bit popular and there are a number of schools with rugby teams now. I don't think the play is first class by any means, but improving.</p>
<p>The more important question for you is if there are any rugby scholarships. Take a look at:</p>
<p>for D3 hoops check out this web site </p>
<p><a href="http://www.d3hoops.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.d3hoops.com/</a></p>
<p>with some hunting you can find conferences that are the right fit athletically and can work to individual school web sites for the ones that are the right fit academically</p>
<p>How important is size in DIII sports? </p>
<p>The coach at College A told me that I would most likely have to move to outside linebacker, despite playing as a DE for most of high school. I was sorta shocked, I never thought 6 feet 215 pounds was "too light".</p>
<p>But does it really matter that much? Size has never really been a problem for me and how well I play(in fact I've been playing line for most of my HS career under 180lbs), I don't see why it should matter in college. Sure it would be preferred to have a bigger guy, but there are many things that are much more important than size in sports.</p>
<p>haz1905- Rugby is not very common in the US, I don't think. But there are some college varsity rugby teams. One college you could try is Vassar College, a DIII school. The rugby team there is filthy. The coach there is very approachable, he's called and invited me for a visit to the school, although I've never actually played rugby before! But the team doesn't just play US teams, every other year they travel on tours to England and Europe to play some college teams there.</p>
<p>Eh, 6', 215 is on the smallish side for a college DE, just based on height/weight and never having seen you play I'd also probably play you on the outside line. My high school team's DE this past year were 6'5", 248 and 6'3" 225, and the latter is nowhere good enough to play college football (6'5" 248 was in Sports Illustrated this past month, though).</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>For a DIII school? Our best DE last year was 6'3 225 and he's playing at Army next year.</p>
<p>That kid wishes he could play DIII, he was just there to take up space :)
I think he's going to Bridgewater State, but I know he won't be playing football there. The kid who's 6'5" 248 is only a junior this year, he'll go somewhere big.</p>
<p>many thx ICFT, the info has proved useful. Thank u</p>
<p>I have been filling out a lot of recruiting forms for tennis even though I am not sure of my chances of getting on the school's teams. A lot of the forms ask essay type questions, do my responses get looked at by adcoms, and if I am not wanted for recruiting will this hurt my chances of getting in on academic grounds?</p>