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Get Scouted Scouting CareersBecause the recruiting process is so competitive being a good, or even a great, high school athlete doesn’t guarantee you’ll be recruited.
If colleges don’t identify you early as a prospect, there is a good chance that you could be overlooked. Our very best advice: to maximize your recruiting opportunities, start the recruiting process when you are a freshman or sophomore. However, for some sports, it’s best to start the exposure process as early as the eighth grade! That way you can guarantee maximum exposure, which will help your chances of being recruited in the long run.
College Coaches are Evaluating Underclassmen Now
Because of the competition for athletic scholarships, college coaches evaluate players for several years to ensure they are making the best choices for their team. Hence why it’s important you assess your situation now. That way you can determine the best way to grab the attention of college coaches and keep them interested throughout your high school career.
Here are ten things that can affect your chances of being recruited:
- Playing at a small school
- Playing behind an established star recruit
- Competing on a team with a poor win-loss record
- Playing out of position
- Playing for an unsophisticated coach
- Changing teams often (high school or club)
- Injury
- Little to no promotion help from your coaches
- Being unaware of how the recruiting process works
- Taking advice from people who are not involved in college recruiting
How to Stand Out to A College Coach
Every year millions of high school student-athletes participate in sports. In fact, many of them play on club and travel teams. So, college coaches have a lot of good prospects to choose from.
What does all this mean for you?
Well, it means that you have to make your opportunities if you want to be recruited. If you don’t, you could be left behind. It means being smart, diligent and aggressively fighting for what you want.
You need to think as a college coach. If you were a college coach, what things would you look for in a future player? How would you find those players?
Additionally, you need to address if what you’re doing now is going to match what college coaches are looking for in a prospect.
College coaches have lists of potential prospects. Typically, coaches separate these prospects by position and then rate them. Some stay on the lists while others are dropped. It’s an ongoing process. But, how do you get on these lists in the first place? Likewise, how can you get on as many lists as possible?
Don’t wait for College Coaches to Find You
Time and again we’ve watched prospects and parents learn this lesson the hard way.
They wait for college coaches to find them, expect their high school or club coaches to do the work for them or expect to be recruited because they play club or travel sports. All those methods are inadequate in today’s real world of college recruiting.
In the end, it’s up to you to secure your status as a prospect. You have three choices to accomplish this goal:
- Promote yourself to a few coaches. About 10% of all self-promoted prospects receive scholarship offers.
- Depend on your coaches to promote you to a few colleges. About 20% of these prospects receive scholarship offers.
- Get help from a professional in the field. Getting help from a professional to promote you to as many colleges as possible on an ongoing basis. You need to find someone with the ability to edit, produce and distribute your video footage quickly upon a college coach’s request. This significantly improves your chances of being noticed, evaluated and recruited.
How Can NSR Help You Be Recruited?
First of all, promoting qualified student-athletes to colleges is what NSR does best. But, you ask, how does becoming an NSR athlete give you an advantage?
- Being able to contact every college coach in America with the touch of a button.
- By aggressively and continually promote your credentials and accurately describe your potential and abilities.
- We are extremely thorough in promoting our athletes to every coach in your sport in America.
You deserve a service which regularly communicates, and makes available, your profile and video to college coaches 24/7. You need the flexibility to reach out to the specific schools which you have identified as right for you.
This isn’t possible by just posting your profile on a random website or one targeted or wide-range promotional push. These are the limitations most recruiting organizations put on their unknowing clients. That isn’t the exposure athlete’s need.
With NSR you get it all. We provide everything to put you in the prime position to be identified, evaluated and recruited.
Finally, whatever you decide to do, do it now. Don’t wait. You won’t get a second chance to be recruited. If you delay the recruiting process, you could lose out on a once in a lifetime opportunity.
National Scouting Report is dedicated to finding scholarship opportunities for athletes who possess the talent, desire, and motivation to compete at the collegiate level. We’ve helped connect thousands of athletes with their perfect college.