COLLEGE RECRUITING TOOLS
Information and Resources to
help you get recruited
Listed below are a number of tools that will help you market yourself to college coaches and realize your dream of playing college sport. it is easy to be dazzled by all the hype surrounding college sport and the awarding of athletic scholarships but you must remain focused. Remember this is a marketing exercise and you are the product.
USE YOUR IMAGINATION.
Informative FAQs. This is a great place to start. Lots of good information and answers about the college recruiting process.
Target Letter Mailing examples. Write down some information about yourself: Your sport, accomplishments, goals, grades, list of universities and any other important information you can think of. Now sit down and compose a letter about yourself addressed to the head coach of your sport at the schools you have picked out.
Custom information sheet example to add to your athletic scholarship resume. The athletic profile or athletic information sheet if you prefer, can make a great attachment to the letter that you send to a coach. Think of this personal information as, "you at a glance".
How to write your resume. Your athletic resume is the single most important document that you will submit. This is what the coach will read; how you sell yourself in your athletic profile can make all the difference.
Personal Athletic Web Profile. Posting a Sports Scholarship Web Profile on the internet is another alternative. You can pay a college recruiting company to do this for you or you can do it yourself.
CD-R Web Profile. If
you don't want to post your Athletic Scholarship Profile on the internet
then consider "burning" a read only CD.