Here is some information on NCSA to Help You Get Recruited
The most important thing you need to know is that no coach will get you a scholarship. It is up to you and your parents to take an active role in your future. Here is the NCSA website. This is the one I recommend.
This is another website I found just recently: berecruited.com. Two girls just got scholarships from this site in Bakersfield, one from Liberty High and one from Frontier High. I talked to the father of one of the girls and he was impressed with the help they received.
Just to let you know my two high school children had an interview with them. The cost ranges from $900 to $2400 depending on the package you choose.
I would recommend just creating an account for this site. Fill out as much as you can, then send me the logon and password. I can fill out the coaches’ portion and see if we can fix up the application form. I would not pay the scout until the junior year of high school. This group has a 90% placement rate into college with a scholarship. I will probably pay for the $1500 as it seems the biggest bang for the buck. This of course depends on where they want to go to college and how dedicated the player is.
Things to think about: The high school players need to keep their GPA above 3.5 which seems to be a magic number. It can be as low as 2.5 but they look on it in a negative way. Take the SAT test as many times as you can to achieve the highest score possible. SAT scores are extremely important to the recruiter.
The players need to know where they want to go to college and their major. If they’re not sure, at least know where they won’t go. That too is extremely important. The rest of the stuff that they mentioned in our interviews, like videos, race times and high profile tournaments, we will work on this year when we start the new season.
If you have college coaches hitting your site, have the player contact them a.s.a.p. Coaches will not deal with the parents. I’m told they want to talk with the players to see if they are mature and level headed enough. Athletes can talk with them, email or send letters or videos. I was told that they like to build relationships with potential scholarship candidates. Even if the coach doesn’t sign them, they will gain practice communicating with the coach and learn what coaches are looking for in a scholarship candidate. It won’t hurt for them to try this.
Most importantly, if you get a hit on your profile with them, and you have a Face Book \ Twitter account, KEEP IT POSITIVE. Avoid drama in high school, clubs, with friends or parents. College coaches are dropping potential athletes just because of this. They believe that if players have to vent this way then they are not mature enough to make the college team.
Just to let you know my son (KC Clifton) had a bunch of colleges looking at him, not for his skill alone, but because of his 4.2 GPA. He is now attending UNLV and we got him a $44,000.00 scholarship. It took a lot of emails over (50 a week) and a lot of our time and hard work to figure it all out.
Lastly, there is a good book called Athletes Wanted. I have read this book and it is a wealth of information on recruitment.
This is just a start and by no means a complete guide to college recruitment. My hope in posting this information on the Bombers website is to help my players begin to formulate a plan to achieve their goals.
Thanks
Kenn Clifton
Bakersfield Bombers
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