is is the second of three articles in a series about steps you need to take for
college recruiting Maglia
Roberto Pereyra , during the all important junior year of high
school. If you aren t being heavily recruited by the second half of junior year,
you need to take the initiative to get on the radar screens of coaches at the
programs you re interested in. Take some comfort in knowing that most kids are
in this situation. Only a very small percentage of athletes get heavily
recruited early in high school. College coaches are all going after the same
kids. Once those kids make up their minds, there are lots of spots for the next
tier. If you re a next tier kid, you need to have your information ready to go
when that time comes. Here are six things you should start doing during the
second half of junior year: 1. Repeat the ACT or SAT to bring your scores up.
Unless you ace these tests the first time you take them, you should take them at
least one more time. Most kids improve at least a point or two, if for no other
reason than they now know what to expect and may have done some test preparation
in between. Make sure you indicate what schools you want the testing services to
send your scores to. You can have them automatically sent out to a few schools
for free at the time you take the test, or if you d rather wait to see how you
score first, you can pay to have them sent out later. 2. Finish your college
list. You should be finished with your list by the end of junior year. Some
people say you should contact 100 coaches, others say 20 is plenty. Use your
intuition and know that the more schools you contact, the better your chances of
finding a good fit and a coach who is interested in what you have to offer. On
the other hand, it s easy to get overwhelmed with this process so choose a
manageable number. When your list is fully narrowed down, you will only have
about 5 7 schools that you are seriously considering and will want to visit.
Your task between now and the fall of senior year will be to narrow from the 20
100 on your initial list, to the 5 7 that will make the final cut. 3. Fill out
the online athletic questionnaire for every school on your list. This is an easy
way to initiate contact with the schools you re interested in. Go to the
athletic page on the school s website and click on your specific sport. There
will be a link to an athletic questionnaire. Go ahead and fill it out and send
it in. It will probably get you on a mailing list but it s an easy way to get
your feet wet. Understand that lots and lots of kids will be sending these in so
don t get your hopes up of anything spectacular happening as a result, but it
will start the ball rolling. 4. Register with the NCAA Eligibility Center
(formerly NCAA Clearinghouse). Go online to the NCAA Clearinghouse and register.
You will have to fill out some information and pay $50. When your end of junior
year grades are in is probably a good time to make sure you start this process.
Have your high school guidance counselor send in a transcript of your final
junior year grades. When you graduate, you will have to send another official
transcript from your school. You should also indicate the Clearinghouse as one
of the locations where you want your standardized test scores to go. When you
are registering for these tests and looking up the college codes for the schools
you want your scores to go to, the Eligibility Center is 9999. Note that you
only need to register with the Clearinghouse if you plan on playing for the NCAA
in Divisions I and II. Division III recruits and NAIA and NJCAA (junior college)
recruits do not need to register. 5. Figure out how you re going to get your
information out to coaches and do it. By the end of junior year, you need to let
coaches know you re out there and you need to give them enough information about
you so they can decide if they re interested. Please refer to my
article Maglia
Patrice Evra , College Recruiting Tactics for High School Athletes
that Coaches Will Notice, for in depth suggestions on how to do this. 6. Visit
some colleges on spring break. If you can talk your parents into it, you should
try to visit some colleges on spring break. They don t even necessarily need to
be ones that you re interested in although it s a much better use of your time
if they are. Your objective at this point is to try and pinpoint the college
characteristics that you like and don t like so you can go back to your list and
start to narrow down. If you pick two or three schools, one large, one small,
and three different environments (urban, suburban, rural), those criteria alone
will be enough to help you start narrowing down. It s helpful to do this before
you start sending your information out to coaches so you can streamline that
process. You are welcome to reprint this article. However, please credit me as
the source with the following: Laurie A. Richter, author of Put Me In, Coach: A
Parent s Guide to Winning the Game of College Recruiting. Author's Resource Box
I am the author of Put Me In, Coach: A Parents Guide to Winning the Game of
College Recruiting. Find it at http:www.RightFitPress, or
http:www.putmeincoachbook. I successfully navigated recruiting with my son. The
book is for athletes who want to take charge of their own recruiting.Article
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