Make The Most Of Your Official Recruiting Trips

Did you know that you are allowed ONLY 5 Official Recruiting Visits? Do you have all of your recruiting visits scheduled with the coach that is recruiting you? Be sure to schedule your recruiting visits as soon as possible, so you can make your final collegiate decision. Have a lot of fun on your recruiting trip and BE SURE to make it a BUSINESS TRIP!

Years ago, when I took my recruiting visit to Stanford I had a great time. It was a ton of fun meeting great players from all over the country. Coach Green teamed me up with a great player on the team to show me around campus and Palo Alto. I had an amazing trip, and the key is that the entire time I stayed focused on keeping it a business trip.

Why is this important?

One the most important reasons to think of it as a business trip is because as soon as you leave campus, the coach is going to call your host into his office and interview him about you. He is going to be asking your host:

How was he during the weekend?

Did he keep his wits while he was around you?

Did he keep his wits about him during the weekend? Did he cause any problems while he was with you?

These are just a few questions a coach will ask his players, and my point is that the coach is going to grill the person he teamed you up with to make sure you seem to be a student-athlete that will fit into his program.

KEY STRATEGIES ON A RECRUITING TRIP:

1. Prepare ahead of time – visit with your coach and/or parents and write down any and all questions you have about the school/program.

2. Do the RIGHT Thing while on campus – typically the person you are teamed up with will take you to a party. DO NOT drink or do drugs (you shouldn’t be doing this anyways) on your visit.

3. Talk to as many people on the team as possible. Find out how they feel about the program. What they like and don’t like about the school, professors, student body, coaches and anything else you may want to know.

4. Also, be sure to talk to as many students as possible as well. You can learn a lot from talking to the student body.

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