Recruit Me continually looks for free and inexpensive resources to help you get recruited and to get an athletic scholarship. I came across a app called Virtual Dugout. The Virtual Dugout app is a platform for high school baseball players offering honest information on college recruiting, showcases, equipment and travel teams. This app caters to baseball, but there are some resources on the app that could help with other sports. There are many ways to find colleges and there are some email templates too. Building your college contact list and doing research on colleges and sports programs is a major part of your recruiting process.
This episode, Epi 383, is Part 1 of a 2 part series that introduces you to the Virtual Access App. Recruit Me has no affiliation with the Virtual Dugout App.
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Episode 382 is going give you an expanded look into the key points found in the interview with an ex-college baseball player and a current professional baseball player, Shawn Goosenberg. Shawn was a teammate of my son Parker at Northwestern University and now plays in the Chicago White Sox organization. Go back and listen to Episodes 380 and 381 to catch part 1 and 2 of the interview that covers Shawn's background, how his high school coach and his travel coach helped him, how he got to Northwestern, and you also get advice on how to prepare for college and how to adjust to college.
This episode pulls out key points from the interview and I'll go more indepth on how Shawn's advice can help you in your recruitment.
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Welcome to Episode 381 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with an ex-college and current professional baseball player, Shawn Goosenberg. Shawn gives you advice on getting recruited, preparing for college and college sports and he gives you his favorite memories about playing college baseball and his college experience. Both episodes 380 and 381 are give not only college-bound baseball players some great advice, but anyone in any sport looking to play their sport in college at any level.
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Today you get Part 1 of a 2 part interview with an ex-college baseball player and now a member of the Chicago White Sox organization. Shawn Goosenberg finished his summer with the Birmingham Barons, the Double A affiliate of the White Sox. Shawn moved from the Single A Winston-Salem team to the Birmingham team at the end of the season. Shawn was a teammate of my older son Parker at Northwestern University. Shawn and Parker were 2 of 7 recruits to the Wildcats. Shawn played 3 seasons at Northwestern before being drafted in 2021 in the 19th round. Shawn was a 2019 All-Big 10 Freshan Team selection and a 2019 All-Big 10 3rd Team selection. The 2020 season was cancelled due to COVID and Shawn was named 1st Team All-Big 10. He played 2B and Shortstop in college and excelled as 1 of the best hitters in the Big 10 conference.
This episode covers Shawn's background, when and how he started his recruiting journey, how his family, his high school coach and his club coach helped in his recruitment, how he did camps, showcases and tournaments and how he ended up at Northwestern.
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Welcome to Episode 379 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, The World's Longest Running Recruiting Education Podcast. This week I discuss The Fall Sports to Winter Sports Transition 2023. I will cover:
Check out the end of the episode for Section #8 of the Recruiting Checklist that is found in The Athletic Scholarship 24 Month Planner & Journal
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Anxiety and panic effects a majority of recruits and their families at some time during the journey. It could be caused by not knowing when or how to start the process. Or, that college coaches are not hanging out in the stands watching you, or, that you are not getting recruited by the college or the level of colleges you want to play for.
Back on October 22, 2019, Jon Fugler, the founder of Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, published Episode 168. Jon gives you 3 helpful strategies to curb some of the anxieties and panic that can creep into a recruits mind.
Learn what Jon had to say and what I have to add to this review of this episode and these strategies for how to handle the inevitable feelings of anxiety and panic as you navigate your recruiting journey. Happy Halloween!
I came across EducatingAthletes.org, a 501C3, Non-Profit organization that helps direct potential student-athletes on all aspects of football recruiting and recruiting in general. The video I first saw was a young man in a Northwestern polo talking about their recruiting plan. This certainly caught my eye since my oldest son, Parker, played baseball for Northwestern from 2018 to 2022.
Listen to today's episode to learn a little about college football recruiting and to learn how this resource has videos that can help you on your journey.
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I decided to go back and find a past episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast that Jon Fuglar, the founder of Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, had published and give you a fresh look at a recruiting subject. Jon's wisdom about recruiting over the past 20 years has been very useful throughout the years and as you will hear it is useful today. Go to Recruit-Me.com to listen to all the past episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast or listen on your favorite podcast app.
Jon's Checkpoints are mainly for Juniors and Seniors in High School, but can be used for Junior College student-athletes looking for a 4 year school or for a college athlete wanting to transfer. Here are the 3 Recruiting Checkpoints: #1 Do You have a valid school list to pursue? #2 Do you have 10 college coaches pursing you? #3 Do you have at least 5 schools that are "right fit" possibilities?
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This episode, Episode 375, is the 2nd part of a 2 part series that covers 25 General Mistakes When Choosing a College. This series was taken from an article I found on the Collegebasics.com website. The article is named, 25 Common Mistakes in Choosing a College. This article listed common mistakes made by students when picking a college. These are mistakes if a decision is made based on only 1 of the common mistakes listed. This episode covers numbers 13 through 25 of the article. The Athletic Scholarship Podcast takes these individual mistakes and relates them to an athletic student-athlete and the episode also encourages you to combine multiple subjects to research and help you to make a "right fit" college decision.
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Episode 374 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is taken from the collegebasics.com website and a article called 25 Common Mistakes in Choosing a College. I was searching for common reasons to pick a college, but this article caught my eye. This episode covers the first 12 of the 25 Common Mistakes listed by collegebasics.com that a student makes if they just consider 1 or 2 subjects as reasons to go to a particular college. This, Part 1 of 2, takes the 12 mistakes and relates them to a student-athlete and some of the similiarities and differences that being a student-athlete can make.
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Today's episode comes from NCAA.org, NAIA.org and NJCAA.org websites. We walk through Recruiting Calendars. You do not have to memorize your sport or your preferred level of play's Recruiting Calendar, but by knowing where to find it and to know the basics about your sport's Recruiting Calendar you will save yourself some stress by knowing whether college coaches can contact you. Learn about Quiet Periods, Dead Periods, Evaluation Periods and Contact Periods. Learn how Recruiting Calendars help balance the recruiting process and how NCAA Division 1, Division 2, Division 3, NAIA and Junior Colleges direct college coaches to recruit you.
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Welcome to Episode 372 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This episode is review of the interview with Karl Barkley from D3Direct. I take out some of the key points the came out of episodes 370 and 371. Listen to this 14-plus minute episode and hear more about these key points:
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Episode 371 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is an interview with D3Direct's founder Karl Barkley. This is Part 2 of a 2 part interview that will introduce Karl, @D3Direct and the NCAA Division III level of college sports. Karl covers a social media gameplan, when to use social media, what to post on social media. The he covers positives of D3 sports and the different levels of D3 sports. Listen in to find out what D3Direct provides to you, the prospective college student-athlete and how to find D3Direct online.
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Episode 370 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is an interview with D3Direct's founder Karl Barkley. This is Part 1 of a 2 part interview that will introduce Karl, @D3Direct and the NCAA Division III level of college sports. Karl covers his recruiting journey to Swarthmore College, a D3 college basketball program, and we start to cover using social media in your recruiting journey. Listen in to find out what D3Direct provides to you, the prospective college student-athlete and how to find D3Direct online.
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The whole goal of Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is to give you many, many free and inexpensive recruiting resources to help you to make the "right fit" college choice for you. Episode 369 takes you through Steps 5 and 7 of the 7 Steps to Athletic Scholarship, found in the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System manual. Steps 1 through 4 and Step 6 covers how to find the right schools to contact and how to contact those schools and coaches. Today I cover how to Track Your Communications and how to use your tracked communications information to Make Your School Choice Wisely.
You can make your own Communication Tracking Chart or you can use the already assembled The Athletic Scholarship 24 Month Planner and Journal, written by Recruit Me's founder, Jon Fuglar. There is link in the shownotes below to get you more information on this book.
Listen to this 15 minute episode to help you manage these 2 very important parts of your recruiting journey.
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Episode 368 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast gives you 15 different posts I found that will help in your recruitment. There are thousands and thousands of recruiting social media posts out there. I like to point out that Recruit Me has been around since 2002 with its founder, Jon Fugler, and I purchased Recruit Me from Jon in 2020. The Recruit Me philisophy of "college coaches want to hear from you, the Student-Athlete" is confirmed many, many times over in many social media posts. Here are just a few of them to help you.
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Episode 367 is the 3rd episode in a 3 part series about the 3 Top Questions about Recruiting. This episode answers the question of What to Do to Get Recruited. Walk through writing an Introductory Email, building your Player Profile and your personal Recruiting Questionnaire.
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This episode is part 2 of a 3 part series on Top Questions. Today I hit on How to Start Your Recruitment.
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Episode 365 is the first episode in a 3-part series about the Top 3 Questions about Recruiting. The Top 3 Questions about Recruiting are: #1 When Do I Start My Recruitment? #2 How Do I Start My Recruitment? #3 What Do I Do to Get Recruited? Today's episode gives you answers, not just 1 answer, but multiple answers to many different situations a high school student-athlete can be in.
Whether you are just starting high school or if you are already an upperclassman, this episode gives you direction on When to Start.
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Episode 364 is an opportunity for you to hear about the ups and downs of one college baseball career. The goal of this story is to let you know and prepare for your ups and downs that, most likely, will happen to you, no matter your college choice. Parker, my older son, college career had plenty of ups and downs through COVID, injury, coaching changes and wins and losses. Use this episode to prepare yourself for your 4 years.
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Episode 363 is the 4th episode in a 4 part series about what to do each year of your high school career to get recruited. This episode highlights items a Senior in high school needs to do whether the student-athlete has already committed to a college program or whether you are still looking for an opportunity. Go back and listen to episodes 360, 361 and 362 to learn about the first 3 years of your high school career. Your Senior year you still need to pay attention to your academics, your testing, and your athletic strength and skills. Finalizing your Eligibility Center information, signing a National Letter of Intent and applying for college entrance and for scholarships are just a few of your Senior year assignments.
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Episode 362 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is Part 3 of a 4 Part Series of What to Do Each Year of Your High School Career. Today we jump into your Junior Year. Hear about how your Junior year is "Go Time". Your maturity, your skills and the opportunity to talk to coaches makes your Junior year critical for your future college decision
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Happy Independence Day! Episode 361 is the 2nd episode in a 4 part series about What to Do Each Year of High School. This episode covers What to Do Your Sophomore Year of High School to get recruited. This picks up and builds on your Freshman year and continues to give you items or assignments to do your Sophomore year. By doing these items you can save, money and anxiety in your more fast-paced Junior and Senior years.
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Welcome to Episode 360 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This week's episode, What to Do Your Freshman Year of High School, is the 1st in a 4 part series that gives you items to do each year of your high school career. There are 2 answers to the question of when to start your recruitment and one is as you enter your freshman year of high school and then if you are already in high school, the answer is today. Recruit Me likes to start talking to student-athletes and their family as the student-athlete enters his or her high school career. Because grades, the types of classes you take and your education about recruiting start your freshman year, then you can build a foundation to a strong recruiting campaign. Listen in to hear the steps you can take your freshman year of high school to get you started and ready for the ever quickening upperclass years of high school.
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Welcome to Episode 359 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This episode is a celebration of the 3 year anniversary of me, Brent Hanks, becoming the owner/CEO of Recruit Me and the host of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. In June of 2020 I purchased Recruit Me from its founder, Jon Fuglar. I have had a great time bringing recruiting education to student-athletes and families.
This episode is a review of the top 10 listened to episodes since June of 2020. Here are the top 10 I will review in this episode:
I give little tidbits from each episode and invite you to listen or re-listen to each episode. Thank you for a great 3 years and I am look forward to many more.
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