Recruiting Timeline - Freshman Year

  • Grades - focus & do well
  • Go see college games
  • Go to College camps
  • Play many sports

Recruiting Timeline - Sophomore Year

  • Grades - focus & do well - take challenging courses
  • Go see college games
  • Go to College camps
  • Play many sports
  • PSAT's
  • Research schools of interest
  • Begin to consider a broad list of schools

Things to consider:

  • Academics
  • Athletics
  • Size
  • Location
  • Rules: no phone calls

By March/April:

  • Send intro letter to schools of interest and include the following:
  • Contact information - complete, accurate
  • Academic information - complete, accurate
  • Athletic information - sports, awards
  • Other involvement - keep it short

Letter - write it yourself

  • Introduce yourself
  • Express your interest
  • What are you looking for in a school

Colleges Response:

  • Questionnaire
  • Return it with all the info you know; don't hide anything
  • Send updates for questionnaire with important info: grades, awards, test scores

Summer:

  • Play Lacrosse; go to camp
  • By end of summer: list of schools to coaches - top 10

Recruiting Timeline - Junior Year

Fall of Junior Year

  • Stay in touch/ show interest

Rules: 9/1

  • Written correspondence allowed/ no phone calls
  • - college coaches can receive but not make calls
  • Respond honestly
  • Visit top choices - notify coach early to set up a meeting

Following 1st semester/marking period

  • Send Transcript
  • Get a start on standardized tests - PSATs, SATs, SAT II's

Winter Junior Year

  • List of schools to coaches
  • Intro letters
  • High school schedules with #/ summer schedule
  • Respond honestly/stay in touch
  • Visit campus/arrange to meet with the coach
  • Send transcripts
  • Take standardized tests
  • Find out which are needed by the schools you are interested in
  • Send coach evaluatons to club coaches
  • Go to camp either @ a school of interest or where the coach will be workng

7/1 - Phone calls

  • Send updated transcripts
  • Be yourself/be honest
  • Ask questions, voice concerns
  • RELAX

Signing date: 2nd Wednesday in November/Letter of Intent

  • Be aware of early admission deadlines
  • Most importantly, if you want to take your visits - take them.  If a coach wants you that badly they will wait.
  • Recruiting process/purpose: to find the best fit for you!