Logging on SportsRecruits for first time
As a high school age SoCal team member, you have access to SportsRecruits. SportsRecruits is like the Linkedin of college recruiting. Keep your profile updated with your volleyball resume and message coaches. Interested coaches will respond to you and/or your recruiting advisor. Who they message depends on their program's NCAA and NAIA rules. There's more [...]
The Importance of Post-Season Active Rest
Over the past six to eights weeks, I have been creating summer workout manuals for the teams that I work with during the school year. These manuals are meant to bridge the strength and conditioning gap between the time they leave for summer break and when they return for the fall semester. There is much [...]
What Worked for Me: Recruiting Questionnaires and Emailing College Coaches
SoCal Member Emma Doherty recently signed with William Woods University to play volleyball and study American Sign Language. She shared her process and the exact steps she took to achieve recruiting success. Many college programs will have a recruiting questionnaire, so the contact order of operation can be confusing. Do you send the coach an [...]
How to Email College Coaches
Sending an introductory email to a college coach can get your foot in the door with a program you’re interested in and give a coach the opportunity to conduct their initial evaluation of you. However, emailing college coaches as a means to get discovered isn’t as effective as it was five years ago. Coaches [...]
The Important Role of Highlight and Skills Videos in Recruiting
There is no denying the crucial role highlight videos can play for many student-athletes in their recruiting process. College coaches are extremely busy; it would be impossible for them to travel the country to evaluate every potential recruit. Highlight videos are a chance to get student-athletes in front of coaches and give them an unbiased [...]
Complete List of Extracurricular Activities: 100s of Examples
How do you like to spend your time after school? Did you know that how you choose to spend this time could be one of the most important ways you shape your future? Extracurricular activities are a critical component of your college application, and you need to impress colleges with your interests. But you might [...]
13 Steps to Being a Winning Sports Parent
If you want your child to come out of their youth sports experience a winner (feeling good about themselves and having a healthy attitude towards sports), then they need your help! You are a vital and important part of the coach-athlete-parent team. If you do your job correctly and play your position well, then [...]
What Makes a Good Coach?
#1) The very best coaches GET THEIR ATHLETES TO BELIEVE in themselves - good coaches inspire their players to do more than they think they can. In fact, all good teachers do this. They get their students to entertain possibilities that stretch the limits of their beliefs. Part of this involves building the athlete up [...]
5 Areas Sleep has the Greatest Impact on Athletic Performance
“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.” — Vince Lombardi The modern elite athlete knows that physical conditioning and good nutrition are critical in reaching peak athletic performance; however, sleep, while often overlooked, plays an equally important role. In recent years, it’s become clear that the quality and quantity of sleep obtained by elite athletes [...]