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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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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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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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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Episode 404 compares an article from Indeed.com called How to Get the Job You Want in 8 Steps. I take the 8 steps in the article and compare it to the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship that is found in the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System. Listen to how Indeed's 8 steps compare to Recruit Me's 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship.
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Episode 403 has some inspiration from Episode 401. It made me think of reasons and advantages a student-athlete gets from playing a sport in college. I go back to my college sport experience and also lean on the experiences during Parker's, my older son's, 4 years at Northwestern playing baseball for the Wildcats and my younger son's, Sutton's, current status as an outfielder for the Columbia College Cougars. This episode gives you 4 advantages that playing a college sport gives you and highlights them so that you have more justification for persuing the opportunities ahead. Built-in friendships, academic opportunities and resources, gear and travel are covered in this episode.
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Episode 402 is a deep look into how many opportunities are out there for you to play your sport in college. I my observations through my college experience, my older son's college experience as a college baseball pitcher at Northwestern University and my younger son's current experience as a outfielder at Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri bring me to a conclusion that there is a place for you to play your sport. Hear about the NCAA Division 1, 2 & 3 levels, the NAIA level, the NCCAA level and the Junior College levels. I give you resources to search and learn about all the levels, the conferences and some of the teams at each level of play.
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A week ago I got a text from a father of a student-athlete that reminded me of Myth #1 About Athletic Scholarships. Myth #1 is one of ten myths listed and answered in the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System Manual. Go to Recruit-Me.com to get access to the ecruit Me 3.0 System for only $39. Myth #1 listed in the Recruit Me 3.0 is: If my child is good enough, the college coaches will find him or her. The truth, as stated in the Recruit Me 3.0 is: A very small percentage of high school student-athletes receive scholarships because the coach "happened to find them". Only the top-line elite athletes receive enough national media recognition that they are automatically recruited without having to make an effort. The other 99% or so have to take the initiative to contact the schools where they have an interest. Most schools recruiting budgets are limited and coaches rely on you to contact them. There is more on this myth in the Recruit Me 3.0 manual.
The text I got was asking why some local, small colleges and junior colleges hadn't contact his son or the son's coaches about him. The son, the basketball student-athlete, had just been named to an all-conference and all-district team as the high school basketball season had just ended. This episode talks about how college coaches don't have the time or money to prosect the many high school student-athletes in the area, the state or the region. Listen to Epi 401 to hear more about the text and the helpful recruiting information and advice.
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Welcome to the historic 400th episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. The Athletic Scholarship Podcast has been a weekly recruiting education podcast since 2015. The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is the world's longest running recruiting education podcast. You get a peek into the Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast as I continue to host the podcast and to provide student-athletes and their families with free and inexpensive recruiting resources that help you to save time, money and anxiety. This episode has an interview with Jon Fugler, the founder of Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. Hear how both orginated and hear some recruiting advise from Jon.
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Happy 400th!
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Welcome to Episode 399 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. We are on the doorstep of our 400th episode and this episode is a look back of one of the past episodes. The past episode in review is Episode 37 and is titled How Do You Rise to the Top. Jon Fuglar, the original host and founder of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast brings you 3 helpful points that were helpful in 2017 and are helpful today. Listen and learn the 3Ps, the 3 points, to help you to rise for the top of college coaches' radars.
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Bet on yourself has a lot of angles in your recruitment. This episode was inspired by me listening to another podcast called the Never Stop Getting Better Podcast hosted by a local football head coach at Nixa High School, Coach John Perry. Episode 78 of the Never Stop Getting Better Podcast was an interview between Coach Perry and the head football coach at the University of Missouri, Coach Eli Drinkwitz. During the interview there was a part that talked about how Coach Drinkwitz "Bet on himself" when he took a very low paying job at Auburn University over a higher paying high school head coaching job. This trigger me to relate how you, a recruit, needs to "bet on yourself" mulitple times throughout the recruiting process.
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Welcome to Episode 397 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. One of the most important, challenging and fun parts of the recruiting process is building your college school list to contact. Recruit Me's philosophy is that you need to recruit colleges to recruit you. There are free and inexepensive resources out there to help you to build your college school list and then do research on those colleges. Hear about the resources on the NCAA.org website, the NCAA.com website, the NAIA.org website, the NJCAA.org website, social media and sites and apps like collegecoachesonline.com and the Baseball Bluebook and the Virtual Dugout app. College team websites have multiple links like the roster link, the coaches' link, the schedule link and the conference link to help you to find schools to add to you college school list and do the research on the team and the school.
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Welcome to Epi 396 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. Here is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Wayne Woosley, the owner of QR Recruiter. Go to QRRecruiter.com. In this episode we cover the technologies affliated with QR Recruiter, the future of QR Recruiter and the many ways QR Recruiter helps you get recruited.
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Welcome to Epi 395 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This episode was delayed from last week. I missed publishing the episode because I was on a trip to Argentina and my computer would not power on, either on the plane or at the house we stayed in. I had planned on finishing the publishing on the 11 hour flight down there. So here is Part 1 of a 2 part interview with Wayne Woosley, the owner of QR Recruiter. Go to QRRecruiter.com. In this episode we cover the QR Draft Tag, the QR Team Roster and how QR Recruiter helps student-athletes and college coaches.
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Welcome to Episode 394 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. The Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System is the cornerstone to the Recruit Me business and to your recruiting success. Today I give you the older follow up information after you purchased the Recruit Me 3.0 System. These follow ups give you some great recruiting advice and tips.
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This part 2 of a 2 part interview with the father a college rower. Aaron Boutwell, an old friend from my college days at the then Southwest Missouri State, His daughter, Molly, in a rower for the Indiana University Hoosiers. Listen to last week's episode, episode 392 for the first part of this interview. This week Aaron and I cover Molly's rowing season and training, how scholarships and perks work in rowing, the levels of rowing and advantages of participating in a sport in college.
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Welcome to Episode 392 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. I get into the world of women's college rowing. This is part 1 of a 2 part interview with Aaron Boutwell. Aaron is the father of a current college athlete that is on the Indiana University rowing team. In this episode you will hear about Aaron and his connection to athletics in college athletics and how athletics affected his job career and even his future family. Aaron tells how his daughter, Molly, got into playing field hockey in high school and then how she got introduced to rowing in college. Then, he gets into some of the basics of rowing and Molly's role on her rowing team. Aaron and I also discuss the number of members on a women's college rowing team, the different levels of college rowing and the competition and training Molly compete in as a Hoosier rower. Listen in and learn about how rowing may be a way some can participate at a high level in a college sport.
Listen in next week to Episode 393, which will be part 2 of 2 of this interview.
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Episode 391 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is the 4th episode in a 4 part series about what each year of high school student-athlete should be doing here in January of 2024. Use your freshman year to prepare for the recruiting journey and to do research on both recruiting and research on colleges and college sports programs. Topics like:
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Today's episode, Episode 390 is the 3rd episode in a 4 part series. Episode 390 is called New Year Recruiting for the 2026 Grad which covers the Sophomore year of the 2024 high school student-athlete. The Sophomore year is a vital year for a potential college student-athlete to prepare for the most recruitable time, your Junior year. The Sophomore year is filled with research about colleges, college coaches and college programs, levels of play and how to contact them. You look into your own feelings and thoughts about what you want to have in a college experience. You start putting together your Introductory Packet information, the Introductory Email and the Player Profile to go along with your Parameters list and your College School list.
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Episode 389 is a 30 minutes long interview with Chance Potts. Chance is an ex-college athlete, the father of college athletes, a coach, a business-person and owner of One More Benefit, a Mental Fitness business. Today we hit on Chance's recruiting experiences and what mental fitnes is and how it helps you in your sport, life and recruiting.
Chance is a frequent guest on Coach John Perry's podcast, Never Stop Getting Better. Coach Perry is Nixa High School's Head Football Coach in Nixa, MO. Coach Perry and Chance have teamed up to create the One More Benefit company. .
Listen next week to Episode 390 to get the 3rd episode in a 4 part series on what a recruit should be doing right now in each year of high school in 2024. Next week's episode is titled New Year Recruiting for the 2026 Grad; The Sophomore Year of 2024.
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Episode 388 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is the 2nd episode in a 4 part series about what a high school student-athlete should or can do in there Junior year of the 2024 school year to get recruited. The Junior year is typically "Go Time" for most high school athletes in the recruiting journey. Most athlete's, especially boys, are hitting or starting their physical maturation and athletes are playing on a high level in their sport. College coaches can start contacting high schoolers and visits and offers are eligible in their Junior year.
I tell the stories of both of my son's recruitments as they happened during their Junior years. Both of son's were different, but the basics were similiar as they used there research, their coaches and their contact list to get to the colleges they played for and are playing for. Listen in to learn how a Junior year can be a big year in recruiting.
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Welcome to the New Year of 2024! Episode 387 begins the year with a look at what a Senior in high school, a 2024 Grad, should be doing to get recruited in their Senior year. Whether you have been in the recruiting process or are figuring out you can and want to play your sport in college, you will get vital information to help you on your recruiting journey.
Listen to Episode 387, New Year Recruiting for the 2024 Grad, Senior in 2024, and find out about:
Episode 387 is the 1st episode in a 4 part series of what the New Year, 2024, brings to the 2025 Grad, the 2026 Grad and the 2027 Grad.
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Merry Christmas to all The Athletic Scholarship Podcast and Recruit Me families. Today's episode is a review of all the 2023 episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. Please, go back and listen to all 51, 2023 episodes. You can Like or Subscribe on your favorite podcast app or go to Recruit-Me.com to listen to every 15 minute, weekly podcast. The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is the World's Longest Running Recruiting Education Podcast. As I close in on 400 episodes, I relish the opportunity to provide recruiting advice and education.
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Welcome to Episode 385 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. In the recruiting world there are many, many, many different voices you can get inidated with. There are tools and services that can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, but there are tools, like Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast that are free or inexpensive. No matter what tools you pick the key ingredient your recruiting sucess is YOU.