College Softball Recruiting - Making It To The University Level

By Richard Adams


Are you looking to play college softball? Do you want to make sure you continue playing after your high school days are over? If so, you need to understand college softball recruiting process and how you can get ahead of your competition. There are hundreds of universities out there who need skilled and talented players. How do these schools find the players they need?

Here are some steps that are recommend you take to give yourself the best chance of actually getting a scholarship or an offer to play at the university level.

Put all your documents in order. You need to become really good at documenting all your success and accomplishments. Keep any articles or other documentation that show your accomplishments on the field. Arrange them in order from your oldest to your very latest achievements so that it is clear for the recruiters to follow them up.

Try to get as much game film as you possibly can showing you in action while playing your best. The more film you have, the more selective you can be about what game film you will send to a coach or post online for him or her to watch. Coaches want to see you in action in order to compare you to other university softball recruits they have on their radar and determine the level at which you are and your abilities as a whole.

Don't Burn Any Bridges. Just because you don't think you really want to sign with a particular school or at a particular division level, don't burn any bridges. You just don't know how the recruiting process will work out in the end and you don't want to burn any bridges so that your options remain open lest you end up regretting making that amateur mistake.

All of these ways should be noted and can help you with your goal of reaching the college level. However, the most important of these steps is most likely to keep in touch with the possible recruiters and market yourself aggressively. This is a fact often overlooked by high school softball players is that coaches from all across the country need talented players. Therefore, marketing and promoting your skills and talents to university coaches is not only good for you, it's a great deal for university coaches.

Stay In Contact with prospect recruiters. The most important advice is to keep the lines of communication open with coaches. Send them periodic updates on the progress of your team and your accomplishments. Don't make the coach wonder if you are still interested in playing for him or her. Staying in contact can keep you from falling off the radar of university coaches unnecessarily.

If you are fortunate enough to be among college ball recruits from around the country, you just might fulfill your dream of playing at university level. However, you need to take the five steps recommended above to give yourself the best chance of signing a scholarship offer or earning a roster spot with a non-scholarship school. If you are not currently being recruited to play and you think you have the talent to play college softball, you need to start marketing and promoting yourself to university coaches.




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