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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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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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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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May 14, 2024
Welcome to Episode 406 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast has goals of providing student-athletes and their families with as many free and expensive recruiting resources and advice sources as possible. Go to Recruit-Me.com to get started with Recruit Me by getting the FREE Recruiting Power Pack and then checkout the $39 Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System, a 200+ page manual, workbook and worksheets that guide you through the recruiting process and answer the When to Start? H'ow to Start? and How to Get Recruited? questions. This week's episode gives you Recruit Me's philosophy and also some other sources on social media that gives you 'recruiting journey' advice. The inspiration for this episode comes from a question from a high school student-athlete that is a senior in high school on how to get an opportunity to play his sport in college. One responder stated that emails to coaches don't work. In this episode we discuss how emails alone do not work, but that there are many combinations of tools to use to get yourself recruited. Thank you for listening to The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education. Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System FREE Recruiting Power Pack QRRecruiter.com promo code RecruitMe5 CollegeCoachesOnline.com promo code RM123 Listen to Past Episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast Baseball Bluebook Virtual Dugout App
May 7, 2024

Welcome to Episode 405 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  

Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter.  Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.  Back in September of 2023 I interviewed Karl Barkley from D3Direct.  Episodes 370 & 371 gave you a look it NCAA Division III sports and recruiting.  Karl and D3Direct also have a podcast, The Student Athlete Sessions Podcast.  The Student Athlete Sessions Podcast episode on April 23rd, 2014 had an interview with Logan Kosmalski, a former college and pro basketball player and the founder and co-owner of Pro Skills Basketball.  A particular quote from Logan Kosmalski caught my ear.  The quote was, "Looking back, I wish somebody could have talked some sense into me as a strong-headed, 17 year old."  

Listen to this episode to hear Logan's recruiting journey and his transfer from Baylor University to Davidson University.  Learn the lessons Logan wishes others to learn in there recruiting journey and decision.

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