<p>Hi. This is my first time in the athletic recruits sub-forum, so I apologize if this has been covered before. My S is a senior in HS. He is playing his sport for the first time ever this fall, and so far he is really excelling (might be beginner's luck). Let's say that over the next few weeks he continues to excel, is it possible for him to be recruited to play in college, or is it too late at this point (because all the recruited athletes have already been pegged)? </p>
<p>cross country? His times are his times and coaches don’t care if he’s been running for a month or 6 years. He still has a chance for lesser D1s, D2 and D3 schools. Any other sport? Not much of a chance. That’s my take on it, for what it’s worth.</p>
<p>Thank you sidelines…that’s what I suspect. He’s a football kicker. He has played soccer for years, and when his school needed a football kicker, he rose to the occasion. And so far, so good!</p>
<p>Well, he missed all the summer recruiting camps, but kicker might be an exception. 45-50 yard field goals are what they are; it’s not like they require the context that the other field players require for a legitimate evaluation. You know, if he’s making all/nearly all of the PATs and has a good percentage of success at decent distance than there’s no harm in making contact with the coaches at the schools he’s interested in. There’s a great article in Sports Illustrated this week about how unique kickers are. Good luck.</p>
<p>Football coaches LOVE former soccer players for kickers. I would start sending emails to coaches, get some game footage taped. I do know that there are different rules for football recruiting, especially what kind of footage that can be sent (I think it has to be official game footage or something like that). If nothing else, they may redshirt him as a freshman. We had a player at our school that started kicking at the very end of his junior season, last couple games, that ended being a HOT recruit senior year (former soccer player turned football player junior year). He ended up running track in college though.</p>
<p>I think that only applies to video posted on recruiting websites. If you want to put some practice kicks on youtube or vimeo and send the coach a link, that’s okay.</p>