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 Use a college sports recruiting service
There is a great variety of different recruiting services for college athletes, both online and offline. When choosing any recruiting service you should consider:
• Price: There are services that charge a fee and there are ones that are free. Be careful though, because more money doesn't always mean better quality. Define beforehand exactly what you are getting for what you pay. If a service is free, find out how they are making money.
• Customized mailings: College coaches don't want to be mass-mailed a random collection of profiles and will throw these away without looking at them. Find services that allow college coaches to specify criteria before being sent perspective athletes. This means offline ones that form personal partnerships between the service and coach, or online ones, that have specific search forms organized for use by the college coaches. This way, the coaches only see those athletes they want, and are more likely to spend time actually reviewing the profiles they obtain.
• Detailed stats: The more college coaches know about who you are, the more of an informed solution they can make. Athletes Advance provides the ability to enter your academic information and detailed game-by-game stats. From this, season averages are automatically calculated and displayed. This gives college coaches the ability to get an in-depth view of your athletic career to see how you perform beyond just your season totals.
• High school coach: Your high school coach is the person who knows your athletic background the best. A college coach can get a better idea of who you are through this perspective. That is why approval of stats and coach testimonials by your high school coach is included. It is very useful to have the involvement of your high school coach throughout the recruiting process.
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