This is for any college coaches- a question regarding recruiting:
1.) Do you appreciate when athletes come to you when they are interested in a school? For example, sending you some sort of "running resume" sheet with a written interest in your school.
2.) Would it be acceptable for someone who perhaps just finished their sophomore year to approach a coach as in question #1 with a general interest in the school?
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I think most coaches appreciate it. see this article: http://www.newsday.com/sports/highschool/ny-hshome1229,0,7766677.story
It is normal to visit colleges starting in the spring of your junior year. Set it up to take the usual college tour and arrange it so that you can visit with the coach at the same time you take the tour. You will learn about the college and the coach and his or her program. You will also give the coach a chance to learn about you. There is no sense in waiting until the fall of your senior year to start visiting colleges. You will have to pay for the visit if it is in your junior year, but that's nothing when you consider the number of trips you may be making to and from the school if you end up going there.
Most college coaches appreciate an athlete expressing interest. However, you may not get much response until near the end of your junior year, as most coahes are concerned with the recruiting class for the upcoming year. One of the toughest things in college recruiting is reaching a prospect that you've had no contact with. If you don't meet a kid at a meet or a camp, or know his/her coach, it's tough to contact them. You can send mail to the high school, but not all schools deliver mail to students and ones who do usually give it to the coaches. Some coaches are great at handing out mail, while others throw it in the garbage, especially if it's not from a high profile school. But, if a prospective student-athlete contacts me, I can get his/her mailing and phone info and be able to recruit him/her. I also feel it's a better investment of my time on a propsect who has contacted us. He/she already has a preliminary interest in our school, so my chances of landing him/her are already a little better than others. I hope that helps.
It would be LOVELY. The thrill a coach gets from a possible recruit expressing their interest is directly proportional to the speed of the prospect and inversely proportional to the number of injuries the prospect has suffered. A female prospect who runs a 4 minute mile, for example, would thrill a coach more than an often-injured girl who runs the mile in 5:35.
The thrill increases proportionate to the grade level of the prospect as well. A senior girl who runs a 4 minute mile would create a greater thrill for a coach than a freshman girl who runs a 4 minute mile.
The degree of thrill is directly proportionate to the number of events the prospect runs well. If that same girl can run a 13 minute 5k as well as her 4 minute mile, a mild heart attack should accompany the advanced degree of thrill.
However, there is a down side to telling a coach anything at all. As the accomplishment level of the prospect increases the health maintenance level of the coach decreases. For example if that girl with the 4 minute mile and the 13 minute 5k also runs the 10k under 30 minutes the coach will most likely suffer a major heart attack with the thrill and be dead when the prospect enrolls.
Gerry the Jogger wrote:
It would be LOVELY. The thrill a coach gets from a possible recruit expressing their interest is directly proportional to the speed of the prospect and inversely proportional to the number of injuries the prospect has suffered. A female prospect who runs a 4 minute mile, for example, would thrill a coach more than an often-injured girl who runs the mile in 5:35.
The thrill increases proportionate to the grade level of the prospect as well. A senior girl who runs a 4 minute mile would create a greater thrill for a coach than a freshman girl who runs a 4 minute mile.
The degree of thrill is directly proportionate to the number of events the prospect runs well. If that same girl can run a 13 minute 5k as well as her 4 minute mile, a mild heart attack should accompany the advanced degree of thrill.
However, there is a down side to telling a coach anything at all. As the accomplishment level of the prospect increases the health maintenance level of the coach decreases. For example if that girl with the 4 minute mile and the 13 minute 5k also runs the 10k under 30 minutes the coach will most likely suffer a major heart attack with the thrill and be dead when the prospect enrolls.
Gerry, please back away from the computer and check yourself into the nearest looney bin
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I don't think it's an awful idea at all to have a Soph who has run decent times express an interest in schools. Granted, they may not get a reply, but they may get a reply from that school in a year...