Being proactive in the recruiting process is a must. Coaches are trying to evaluate hundreds of athletes each year, and the easier you make it for them to recruit you, the better your chances getting a scholarship will be. If you can’t think of a reason to update a coach, check out the list below. Is there something that we missed? Do you have another reason to update a coach?
The 50 Reasons You Should Contact College Coaches Now
1. Share you new highlight video with them on YouTube
2. Make sure they know your travel ball club team schedule
3. Let them know you will be attending their camp
4. When you receive all-league, all-region, all-state honors
5. When you establish a new personal best
6. When you beat a higher ranked opponent
7. When you get new combine numbers
8. When you get your SAT or ACT scores
9. The end of the semester/quarter to update coaches with your grades
10. When you are done with your season
11. When the school year is starting
12. When the school year is finishing
13. To wish them a happy holiday
14. When one of their athletes receives a prestigious honor
15. When they have a big win
16. After they win a championship
17. When you want to schedule an unofficial visit to their school
18. When you have submitted your application to their school
19. When you have decided to accept another scholarship offer
20. To let them know when another program has offered you a scholarship
21. When you have calculated how much your family will be able to pay for college
22. Letting them know how your summer time training is going
23. When you have game film from your best games of the year
24. When you have developed a new skill
25. If your team has won a championship
26. To ask for advice on what you should work on in the off season
27. When you have a new reference for them to contact
28. To thank them for their evaluation of your video
29. To establish a time you can call them
30. To find out what tournaments they will be attending in the spring and summer
31. To find out where you rank in their recruiting class
32. To ask if they are going to offer you an official visit
33. To ask if they are going to offer you a scholarship
34. To see what camps or combines they will be working at over the summer
35. To see if you can get tickets to their home game
36. When they receive an award or coaching honor
37. At the start of their season
38. At the end of their season
39. After they sign a major recruit
40. When you have signed up for the NCAA Eligibility Center
41. When you have signed up for the NAIA Eligibility Center
42. If you have narrowed down your list of potential schools
43. If there was a natural disaster near their campus
44. If the university gets a national honor
45. If a different team at the school wins a championship
46. To confirm when you will be visiting campus
47. To ask where you rank after they sign a new recruit
48. To see if they need more film on you
49. Just to say hello
50. Because you should try to always learn more about the program and university
Do you have trouble contacting coaches and have questions about what to do next? Leave your questions in the comments section below or ask us on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+!
is it accessible to students in africa who wish to do athletics in America?
Athletes from Africa have been able to find scholarships in the past. The biggest problem for athletes from Africa are meeting the academic requirements. Please let me know if you have any questions.
What if you have an athlete who is very talented, but painfully shy. How do you get them to open up and take the lead in contacting coaches.
Barb, this is a fantastic question and a great challenge as well. What I have seen in my experience is that most student-athletes start out quite shy. I believe it is a lack of understanding how to sell or market themselves. Although there isn’t a full proof method of bringing one out of their shell I have found that the overall process ends up bringing them out in the end.
Coaches are experts at getting athletes to talk to them, interact with them, etc. afterall they are salesman, very well paid salesman. If your son is struggling to start out conversations have him hide behind a computer screen at first. This takes face to face nervousness away and allows the student-athlete to build a relationship he is comfortable with thus allowing him to shed his shyness as well.
Is it possible for athletes from Australia to get a college position in a college in America with a full Scolarship ?
Yes. Hundreds of athletes have come from Australia to play here in the US on scholarship. What is your sport and what year in school are you?
Basketball and I’m in year 12.
Great. Are you currently on our college coaches database? You can search for schools and get the contact information for every coach in the country. We can help you put together then information you need when contacting coaches. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.
Am 4rm Nigeria, pls hw can i get a soccer school in America? Hw can i get in touch wit a Coach?
Hello, thank you for your comment. Please take a look at our soccer scholarships page. This will help detail the recruiting process in the United States. Then ask us any questions you may have.
http://www.athleticscholarships.net/soccerscholarships.htm
What about a high school coach singling out a kid for major verbal abuse? Utilizing other/younger players that are not qualified in front of this kid? I know this comes off as a disgruntled parent looking for playing time. Even the other kids on the team are mystified by this coach’s behavior. I really am at a loss as to what needs to happen here–it certainly is ruining this kid’s chance to play on in college (he’s sick of the abuse and therefore the game
as well). He is a 2014 grad, 6’1 218, fields well, hits well in the top division in this state.
These situations are very tricky and you need to make sure your son doesn’t let the situation get the best of him. Most important is that your son approach the coach and find out a way to work together. If you feel it is a complete lost cause, they you need to consider leaving the team. In addition, if you aren’t already playing travel ball, I would strongly suggest you do. Many college coaches look more closely at the travel ball numbers then high school. Good luck.
My son is a senior, he has been accepted to school at Liberty University, Oklahoma State, waiting on reapply from Notre Dame and Oregon. Offered 19,000 for Wesley University. But, nothing about his football. He has sent out a game tape and individual one to them all except Wesley. He has had a visit from Emory and Henry, but they can’t give him a scholarship.Even the schools that have accepted him and offering him money to come there. No coaches are contacting him. Is the deadline for them to do that over. We don’t have money to contribute to his education, but he is an great athlete. Can we contact the coaches? He really just wants to walk on, so the pressures isn’t there because they are paying for his education and playing football. So, does he need to find out about the walk-on terms each school has. I have tried contacting several and can’t get a reapply back, and no one to tell me. What should I do next? Thank you for your time.
The vast majority of DI schools are done recruiting. There might be opportunities to walk-on, but that means he would have to go to the school and pay his own way.
If he wants to walk-on, he should call and email the coaches himself. Let the coaches know he is planning on attending the school and wants to know if they offer walk-on opportunities. Once you know more, he can make his final decision. Best of luck.
Hello thanks for your time, I was wanting to no if you can give me some names and email adresses to coaches that have a golf team. I really want to get a hold of them and ask them some questions and show some video of me to see what I can do to work on. I want to know how good I have to be to get in a great D2 or D1 school. Once again thank you for your time.
There are over 500 different schools with a men’s golf program at the DI and DII level. You should create a recruiting profile by clicking on the Athlete button on our website. Once you have your profile created, you can search for schools and get the email address directly from the search tool. Good luck.