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The Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship Podcast with Brent Hanks

This is the podcast for parents and athletes that explores every aspect of recruiting and athletic scholarships. It’s coaching you can apply to your family’s athletic scholarship pursuit. Recruit-Me Owner & CEO Brent Hanks is your host. You'll hear practical insights that you can apply from Brent and other recruiting experts, college coaches, NCAA officials and college planners.
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Nov 6, 2024

Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Andy Allanson, Ex-MLB catcher and Athletic Lead for the Elite Academic Academy in Southern California.

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Oct 29, 2024

Episode 430 is part 1 of a 2 part interview with ex-MLB Catcher, Andy Allanson.  Andy is now the Peak Performance Athletic Lead at Elite Academic Academy in southern California.  Elite's Peak Performance is one of the many offerings at Elite Academic Academy.  There are links to Elite Academic below.  Andy brings you information this week on his college and Major League background, what Elite Academics does and how the athletic department helps student-athletes and he provides some very helpful information on how you can prepare to be an athlete.  

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Oct 22, 2024

Today I highlight an X post from @SportsForceBB about their option on the new NCAA Scholarship and Team Roster rules starting in the 2025-2026 season of sports.  This post talks mainly about college baseball, but the new rule will affect other sports and level of college sports and recruiting.  You will get the 5 points that the @SportsForce BB post presents, plus you will get how the new NCAA rules change the number of scholarships and the number of players a team can support.  Just because the number of scholarships is expanding, that does not mean every school will be able to fully-fund all the new scholarships.  Let's get ready to navigate the new recruiting paths coming quickly.

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Oct 15, 2024

I came across 2 posts on X on social media that I will cover in this episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  The 1st post was about the announcement that the National Letter of Intent will be eliminated by the NCAA Division I and Division II levels.  I will give you the actual announcement and what the NLI was and how it might effect recruiting.  More news on the changes will be covered on future episodes.  The 2nd post I can across was from a Head Coach of a NAIA level baseball team.  The post said the Head Coach just wants prospective student-athletes to contact him directly and not to pay someone else to sent a mass email. Listen in to hear some of the comments from that post and to hear my input.

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Oct 8, 2024

A goal of Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is help student-athletes find their "right fit" college and college sports team.  I would challenge the athlete to research and understand as much as possible about what their college experience will be like.  Also, I challenge them to try to find a fit and give themselves at least 2 years to their sport.  Listen to this episode to hear about some questions you can ask and get some exercises to do to help you find your "right fit" college.

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Oct 1, 2024

The goal of Recruit Me, LLC and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is to help guide you to a "right fit" choice of a college for you.  There are things I see and hear about in the recruiting world that are great successes, but there are things that upset me or make me sad.  I covered  in Episode 424 and 425 some pitfalls in recruiting journey.  Pitfalls that happen during the recruiting journey and pitfalls that rear up after the student-athlete commits.  Today I talk about commits committing to a level of play that is too high.

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Sep 24, 2024

 

Get definitions of verbal commitments at all levels of college play and why there is a risk to an early commitment for a High School Student-Athlete.

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Sep 17, 2024

Welcome to Episode 424 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  I'm Brent Hanks, the host of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, the Owner/CEO of Recruit Me, LLC and the father of 2 college baseball players.  Our family's recruiting started back in 2015 and today's episode covers 3 of many things that make me sad in the recruiting world.  Listen in and don't make me sad.

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Sep 10, 2024

Episode 423 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is a look at the Recruit-Me.com website.  I want to show you the resources available on the website and that you are not going get strung out for hundreds or thousands of dollars to get all the information or the help you need to get a spot on a college team or an athletic scholarship.  The pages on the webiste are:

  • The Homepage
  • The FREE Recruiting Power Pack
  • The Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System
  • The Recruit Me Story
  • The Athletic Scholarship Podcast
  • The FREE Recruit Me Monthly Newsletter
  • Recruit Me Resources
  • Contact Us
  • Reviews

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Aug 27, 2024

Welcome to Episode 421 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  This episode is a review of Steps 1 through 3 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship from the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System found on Recruit-Me.com.  Episodes 414 through 420 cover each step, individually.  So, today I am going to give you some personal insights and tips for Step 1; Select the Right Schools to Contact.  Step 2; Write a Great Introductory Email and Step 3;  Create Your Own 1-Page Player Profile.  

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Aug 20, 2024

 

Episode 420 is Step 7 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship and covers the subject of Making Your School Choice Wisely.  Steps 1 through 6 setup this step.  Listen to how you pull together all your research and work to help you to make your "Right Fit" college choice.  

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Aug 13, 2024

Welcome to Episode 419 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, hosted by Brent Hanks, the Owner & CEO of Recruit Me, LLC.  Thiis is Step 6 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship.  Those 7 Steps are featured in the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System on Recruit-Me.com.

 

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Aug 6, 2024

Episode 418 covers the 5th step of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship.  The 5th step is Track Your Communications.  You need to have a plan and create a habit to make sure you collect all the information you need to make a "right fit" choice of the college and the athletic program you want to commit to.  Tracking your communications will keep you from getting confused about what you and a college coach talked about.  Tracking you communications will save you time, money and anxiety throughout your recruitment.  Listen and learn how to track you communications.

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Jul 30, 2024

Episode 417 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, the world's longest running athletic recruiting education weekly podcast, gives you Step 4 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Build Your Own Recruiting Questionnaire.  My name is Brent Hanks and I'm the host of The Atlhletic Scholarship Podcast and the owner of Recruit Me, LLC.  Go to Recruit-Me.com for more information.  

This week's episode gives you information on how to build your own, personal Recruiting Questionnaire.  It walks you through each line of your recruiting questionnaire and explain why you should include this tool in your recruiting toolbox.  

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Jul 23, 2024

Episode 416 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is Step 3 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Create Your 1 Sheet Player Profile.  You will get the chapter of the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System manual that walks you through the process to create your own Player Profile, which is your resume.  This document is the key to getting a college coach's attention and is the way you know you are ready to get recruited.  Filling out this template will impress your future college coach. 

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Jul 16, 2024

Episode 415 is Step 2 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship and it walks you through why writing a great Introductory Email is a critical part of your recruiting process and then gives you a model of how to write it.  Key points from this episode are:

  • Send a personal email to coaches
  • Your email should be brief.  Write it as a 1 page and with just a few paragraghs.  Then you can copy and paste it into your email.
  • Write a sample or "model" letter that you can personalize for each school and coach.
  • Have a couple of friends or family members read your sample letter and make suggestions.
  • If a coach does not respond in 3 weeks, then send your intro packets by mail or even call.

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Jul 9, 2024

Welcome to Epi 414 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  This is the 1st of 7 episodes that will cover the 7 Steps to An Athletic Scholarship from the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System.  This episode is a little shorter than normal and is a little later than normal.  I'm in Canada and my oldest son, Parker is getting married today!  There's alot going on. :)

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Jul 2, 2024

Welcome to Episode 413, the 2nd part of the Recruiting Weekly Tips. This week you get the recruiting tips that will hit social media on weeks 36 through 52.  Quick tips about recruiting and your recruiting journey like, information on showcases and ID camps, how to build a recruiting team, how grades effect your recruitment and how Recruit Me is for all levels and all sports.  

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Jun 25, 2024

Episode 412 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast gives you 35 short pieces of recruiting advice that I will soon publish on Recruit Me's social media sites.  Dig in and pick out the tips that will help you to get recruited.

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Jun 11, 2024

Welcome to episode 410, of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. In past, The Athletic Scholarship Podcast episodes I have referenced the cornerstone of Recruit Me, the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic
Scholarship System.  The Recruit Me 3.0 System includes a 200 plus page manual and includes a
workbook and worksheets. I have covered the Seven Steps to an Athletic Scholarship in various
past episodes, and also the 10 Myths about AthleticSscholarships and Frequently Asked
Questions about Recruiting. Today's episode are readings from the Recruit Me 3.0 manual. You
will hear what is on pages 81, 82 and 83 that cover the topic of Choosing the Right Camps and
Showcases during your recruitment and then the topic of Parent/Athlete Teamwork in the
recruiting process, from pages 91, 92 and 93. Then there is a reading from page 97 about Junior
Colleges, sometimes called JUCOs. And then on pages 104 and 105 of the Recruit Me 3.0 Manual,
you hear about the importance of academics in your recruitment. Find out more about the
Recruit Me 3.0 system on Recruit-Me.com.

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Jun 4, 2024

Episode 409 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is a review of the interview with Scott McCowan from episodes 407 and 408.  Scott, the father of a current D1 women's basketball player, gave us a look into his daughter's and his family's experience through Raegan's recruitment and her first year of college and college basketball at Western Illinois University.  Today's episode goes back and grabs a few key points from Scott's 2 part interview.  Key points about Raegan's recruiting journey, his advice and a look into their Transport Portal experience.  

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May 28, 2024

Episode 408 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Scott McCowan.  Scott is a past college basketball and football player, a past college basketball coach and is presently the father of a college basketball player.  His daughter, Raegan, just finished her freshman year on the Western Illinios Lady Leathernecks basketball team.  WIU is a NCAA D1 and Ohio Valley Conference level team.  

Scott and I cover how Raegan and the family navigated her recruitment to Western Illinios, how they had parameters to help pick the right fit situation, you will get some recruiting advice from Scott and then we end with Raegan experience in the Transfer Portal.  

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Raegan McCowan 

Western Illinois Women's Basketball

 

May 21, 2024

Episode 407 is Part 1 of a 2 part interview with a friend and past competitor from our high school days.  Scott McCowan is now an insurance agent in Lebanon, Missouri, but also the father of a current women's NCAA Division 1 basketball player and he is a former NAIA level basketball and football player himself.  Scott also coached college basketball after he graduated from college.  In this 1st part of the interview, Scott and I cover his background in sports, his current job and his family.  We then get into his daughter, Raegan's, experience in her recruitment to Western Illinois University and her 1st year of playing basketball at the NCAA Division 1 level.  Listen and step into the McCowan family's shoes and learn about recruiting.  

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