Junior and Senior Softball Recruiting Head Softball Recruiting Coach Britt Pascale

Britt Pascale – Head Softball Recruiting Coach University of Nebraska 4 year letter winner 2 year team captain High School Coach Won a State Championship DI College Coach Head recruiting coordinator, Won a Conference Championship

Outline Your Recruiting Process -Previous contact from coaches What a coach is really saying – Form Letters Vs. Personalized Letters Where are coaches at in their recruiting process – How Find out where coaches are at in their recruiting process Mapping out next steps

Your Recruiting Process Have you had contact from college coaches? – s, Phone Calls, Camp Invites – This will help develop your list of top schools Juniors: If you have not been ing or calling coaches now is the time to do that! Seniors: It is very important to follow up with the schools you have been talking to or start to narrow down your offers to your top choice.

What a Coach is Really Saying If you are receiving letters from coaches that are camp invites and not personalized s or letters chances are that coach is not interested and may not even know who you are. Form Letters: if you receive a letter and can replace your name with any of your teammates name that is going to be a form letter. – Coaches have software that has the ability to send the same to thousands of student athletes with the click of a button. Most of the time the s are camp invitations to drive up the attendance and make money for the program. Seniors: If you are receiving generic camp invitation to coaches you have never spoke to before that is going to be a mass . – Look for s or letters from coaches that are personalized to you. Also, Phone calls from a coach is a huge indicator or interest.

What a Coach is Really Saying Indicators of interest : Unofficial and Official visit invitations, hand written letters, phone calls, and coach calling your listed references to get more information on you. OFFERS!

Where Coaches Are At In Their Recruiting Process Division 1 Schools are going to be done with their 2012’s and have offers out to their 2013’s. Majority of Division 1 schools are recruiting 2014’s right now From Big Ten School: Hey Britt, Thanks for the …in our crazy recruiting world…we have completed recruiting for 2012, 2013, 2014…can you believe it??? NOW…that is crazy…BUT there are some really good ones in the bunch. I hope you are doing well… Rhonda

Where Coaches Are At In Their Recruiting Process Division 2 Schools are also going to be just about done with their 2012’s and onto offering their 2013’s Division 3 and NAIA Schools are going to still be recruiting for their 2012’s and 2013’s. They will be making offers to their 2012’s at this time JC schools will be continuing to recruit their 2012’s through the summer.

Finding out exactly where coaches are at in their recruiting process ASK! The easiest way to find out where a coach is at in their recruiting process for you Grad class is to ask! – Seniors make a phone call and send an – Juniors send an or phone call – Making and Receiving Phone Calls Webinar Coach Request: List of different schools and what the coach is looking for in their recruiting classes.

Mapping Out Next Steps Seniors – Follow up with all coaches you have been in contact with and find out what the next steps in the process is and if they need anything else from you. – Ask the coach to take an unofficial visit – Look at the Coach Request’s for any opportunities that you may be a perfect fit for – Call Coaches to find out where they are at in their recruiting process!

Mapping Out Next Steps Juniors – Begin to follow up with those coaches who you have had more personal contact with – Try to get on campus to take unofficial visits – Call and coaches to see where they are at in their 2013 recruiting process. ( Are you on their prospect list?) – Get to any camps and clinics the coach suggests in order to give you a further evaluation – Look on the coach requests for any new leads

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