Thursday, November 28, 2013

Help Me Please With Recruiting

A huge number of high school athletes need some sort of college recruiting help without delay.

For whatever reason, these student athletes are not getting recruited and for the most part, no one knows who they are.

The majority of student athletes accomplished lot of the right things through the summer; participating in camp, playing with a travel team, working on their skills in order to get better and to be the best high school student they can be but somehow, somewhere, something went wrong and from now on they may be looking for college recruiting help that's not out there.

It is typically already happened for some high school ballplayers who may have given their all and were left with nothing to show because of being overlook.  

How often maybe you have learned about an athlete who’s got the overall game but have not gotten any offers?

It happens on a regular basis.

Why is that some superior athletes miss the opportunity? One never knows. Most of the time at the end of a season, during the high school athlete’s senior year a lot of people think this is the time that they can should start the recruiting process.

Huge mistake!

They are simply so wrong! That’s the moment the recruiting process need to be coming to an end!

All I know is the fact that thinking about starting the recruiting process at the end of your senior season is a huge mistake and you will wind up going nowhere.

Who cares or knows why this happens--it just does, all of the time to an enormous number of kids.

Who cares that these athletes give their all only to get nothing back?

I see it and hear regarding the college recruiting mistakes made by parents, student athletes and high school coaches repeatedly.

College programs just don’t find players by means of newspapers.

Someone must tell these college coaches about these kids time and time again.

That’s how it works or these kids will have to be seen somewhere again and again to get recruited.

That’s what would need to happen.

There are millions of more things a high school student athlete must do to keep their name out there on a regular basis, but there will always be another athlete out there looking for college recruiting help and they won’t get it.

That’s precisely how it is. I would personally bet that there's a high school in this country at this time where none of the athletes will have a chance to go to a college to play their sport whatsoever.

I would personally bet that there's a school which has, let’s say, 1,000 or even more student athletes that after they play their last game in high school, their athletic career will come to an end.


That’s real!

Saturday, November 2, 2013

The Question Has Always Been When Does The College Recruiting Process Began For High School Student Athletes?

There is a huge debate often mixed with a high level of confusion on when the college recruiting process should began for high school student athletes.

A large number of athletes begin to develop during the seventh and eighth grades to the point where certain private schools will start to recruit middle school aged student athletes because of their potential.

I believe the recruiting process actually begins when a student athlete enters their freshman year of high school.

When a student athlete enters high school, this is when academics count towards graduation and admittance to college. Going from middle school student to high school student is a totally different environment where there is a great deal of adjustments.

Academics play a critical role in the entire college recruiting process and student athletes who enter their freshman year of high school need to hit the ground running when it comes to their academics.

Failure to maintain strong academic standards throughout high school will result in student athletes being a non-factor in the eyes of college recruiters. If you have bad grades college coaches do not want to know your name, regardless of how great you are athletically.

The ninth and tenth grade year for high school student athletes should be to focus on academics and to develop even stronger athletic potential.

Regardless of the sport, the student athlete needs to spend a great deal of time developing their athletic skills, talents, and mental capabilities. Also during those early years student athletes need to put double the amount of time into academics, shooting for the highest possible grade point average.

Make no mistake about it, recruiting is year round; there are no off days or off seasons when it comes to the recruiting process.

Student athletes should play club ball during the summer months because this is the time for student athletes to be seen by college coaches.

It’s important to utilize the summer months as a time to gain exposure and to build up that exposure from one summer to the next until you have a large number of college coaches battling over offering a scholarship.

The college recruiting process in all its glory begins, in my opinion, when a student athlete enters high school as a freshman. Parents, student athletes, and high school coaches should work together in formulating a college recruiting strategy that can build momentum and they must maintain that momentum through to the senior year. To learn more about the college recruiting process take a look at Woods Recruiting.