Considering every level, there are just less than 2,000 women’s college basketball teams in the United States. However, there are more than 400,000 female high school basketball players. And of those, only [Read More]
With almost 400,000 high school softball players in the U.S., it might be hard to know where you stand as a recruit in the eyes of a college softball coach. That’s [Read More]
In the grand scheme of college athletics, tennis is a middle-of-the-pack priority for many athletic programs. In Division I, women’s tennis is a headcount sport, with each [Read More]
Thanks to media attention, most everyone is familiar with how the college football or basketball recruiting process works. But if you [Read More]
While the 5-star, top-ranked recruits get all the media attention on signing day, the majority of high school football players earn scholarships that aren’t reported on ESPN. [Read More]
Recruiting has changed.
College coaches are no longer recruiting just the student-athlete—they’re recruiting their parents, too.
“An increasingly large part of the evaluation process for us is evaluating the parents,” Pat Fitzgerald, head football coach at Northwestern University, told Coach & [Read More]
Unlike football or basketball, track and field is a team sport that’s focused on individual results. Therefore, it should be no surprise that the college recruiting and scholarship process is different as well. [Read More]
For a hockey player, trick shots make for good online content, and scoring lots of goals can draw attention to your profile. But, in the big picture, none of that is what a [Read More]
“Do you prefer recruiting multi-sport athletes or single-sport athletes?”
It’s one of my favorite questions to ask college coaches. Overwhelmingly, college coaches love adding kids to their program who competed in multiple sports during high school. Here are five of the biggest [Read More]