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Your Senior Year and the College Recruiting Process

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Generally speaking, the senior year is suppose to be the where you find out where you’re going to play college sports.  I can tell you from experience there will be a huge number of student athletes who are very talented but are not going to be recruited. 

There are student athletes in their senior year who have very little to choose from when it comes to being recruited or have totally weak prospects for their college recruiting future.

Oftentimes, student athletes believe that if they are good enough college coaches will somehow find them.  That particular thought is ridiculous because names of student athletes just don’t appear out of thin air and end up on the desk of a college coach.

There are many student athletes whose high school careers could more than likely end at the high school level because something went wrong with the college recruiting process.

Think about this and see if it applies to you: student athletes who are seniors did not go to enough exposure events, combines or tournaments and did not perform at a high level athletically during your senior year.  You did not score high enough on one of the two standardized tests and therefore you are invisible to college coaches.  Maybe you have a high school coach who could care less about the college recruiting process and did not lift a finger to help you.  Maybe you did not network with enough college programs during your high school career.  These are just a few examples of things that some student athletes and their parents do not focus on when it comes to college recruiting.

If you’re a high school senior and you’re being under-recruited or not recruited at all, I don’t think there’s any hope to correct the problem.  The reason I say that is because scholarships are disappearing so that means there’s one less scholarship for you.  If it’s a division two program, they have very few scholarships to give and the rest is a financial package so the money that would go to you is slowly disappearing.  Some student athletes who were outstanding ball players could be forced to go the junior college route. 

There are some issues with the junior colleges, one of which is that they’re only going to recruit a player who can play division one sports and if you’re not one of those players then those junior college coaches will have no interest in you.

Another option would be to go to an NAIA college program or a division three program. The problem with that is there is very little money to offer to pay for your education.  And if you take out a student loan you could be paying that back for a long time.

If you’re a high school student athlete and you did not take strong and serious action early in your high school athletic career, more than likely your career will be over.

Now there will be some student athletes who believe that their athletic career will not end at the high school level.  Those athletes will continue to chase the college athletic dreams by going to prep school or junior college all with the hope that their athletic careers will continue.  All these athletes are doing is wasting time and setting themselves up for years of frustration.  If college programs are not recruiting then it’s all over; go somewhere and be a student, get an education and somehow, someway once you’ve gotten over the bitterness of losing your athletic career give back some kind of way to athletics.

Final thoughts: The college recruiting process does not always work out for each and every high school student athlete.  Some athletes are going to end up extremely disappointed on how it all turns out for them. For those who are reading this and are freshmen, sophomores or juniors in high school you still have time to develop a strategy to gain exposure to college coaches and get recruited.

If you waste one day by not contacting a college program, that’s a day wasted and can never be made up; that’s a day that was lost.  The student athletes who are working early in the recruiting process, just look at what is happening to the seniors you may know at your high school and other high schools in your area. How did it all work out for them?

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Are High School Coaches To Blame?

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There are many talented high school student athletes all over the country looking to be recruited by college programs, but what happens when talented high school athletes slip through the cracks of the college recruiting process?

Who is to blame if a talented ballplayer somehow becomes invisible to college coaches?  For as long as I can remember, it has been the role of high school coaches to assist their players with the recruiting process, but what happens if the high school coach screws up?  Who is to blame if one of that coach’s players ends up with no possibilities of being recruited for college or having quality choices of college programs?

This is a sensitive subject because you’re talking about high school coaches that, for the most part, do an excellent job with their players.  From where I sit, I’ve heard too many stories of talented high school athletes being misused and abuse in the college recruiting process so, are high school coaches to blame?

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The dream is over for many high school student athletes

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There are a large number of high school student athletes who will not be attending college in the fall.  Many of these student athletes are extremely talented but for poor performance in the classroom or lack of exposure to college programs, these athletes are not going to college.

Lack of preparation is a big reason why many talented players will end up working in a fast food restaurant or some other place because they did not take the time to invest into the college recruiting process.

Some of these athletes will try to correct the problem by attending junior college or  retaking the standardized tests with the hopes of gaining the attention of college coaches.

Student athletes miss out on college; this happens all the time.

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The Dream of High School Student Athletes

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The dream of many high school student athletes is to be the best high school athlete that he or she can be. You’re working really hard. You’re doing all the things you can as a player. You have achieved a certain level of success. Your dream is to just be the best.

Now all of a sudden you have achieved that goal. You have become the best that you can possibly be. You have honed your skills and now you feel that you could be a college player.

The game has become fun to you and you want to be recruited. You want to play college ball. You want to get that college education. You want to get that scholarship.

Your dream is to play at the next level which is college. You have, over the years worked on your game. During the summers, you played in the summer leagues, you went to camps, and you went to tournaments. You’ve done all those things because that’s what the real good players must do.

Like most athletes in high school, who will at some point develop a certain level of success and when that happens, you want to go to the next level. It’s only natural; that’s what this is all about.

There are many high school athletes who never achieve that level of success and they will never be college material, but for the millions of others out there, they want an opportunity to play in college and they deserve that.

College recruiting is very confusing and it’s a very complex situation. You need to have the right tools, the right materials, the right education, the proper understanding and the right guidance to achieve just a certain level of success when it comes to being recruited.

What is going to make you shine above another student athlete or what’s going to make you standout over another athlete who may have similar playing abilities, similar skills and maybe even similar academic achievements?

Sometimes, it’s being in a situation where you’re going to get the proper exposure to hundreds of college programs, where there’s going to be a proper amount of follow-up work done.

The more that a college program hears about you over the course of a year, 2 years or perhaps your entire high school career, will be a major plus for you.

Also remember that it could be the little things that set you apart from some of the other athletes.

Maybe you’re an inch taller, maybe you’re in better shape, maybe your grade point average is a tenth of a point higher than the next persons, maybe you scored well on the SAT or ACT tests, maybe you’ve written letters to coaches, maybe you’ve gotten your DVD to coaches, and maybe you’ve developed a great rapport with a college coach.

I believe the dream for many high school athletes is just to play in college. That dream can become a reality if you do a few simple and basic things.

Exposure is number 1. Number 2 is follow-up work. Getting your name out there and being able to be seen by college programs over the course of a year to 2 years is critical in your development.

To achieve your dream, you need to do all the right things because college programs are not going to give everyone a college scholarship. Most student athletes are not scholarship worthy.

It really comes down to talent and that’s how you’re going to get your scholarship. I would also focus on skill level; doing everything you can to become bigger, faster, stronger, and better. Work on your skill level.

Think about being a great student athlete and think about being an even better student athlete. If you can do that you will achieve your dream of being in college.