When narrowing down your college choices, one of the first questions you need to ask yourself is "will this college allow me to obtain my goals?" Your academic and athletic abilities, and the goals you have for each, will lead you to schools that are a good fit. Collegeboard.com is a great resource for your initial research, there you can enter specific search criteria and weed through your options. Further research on specific schools and their athletic programs will narrow down your list of potential schools. Let's go through the process:
- Assessment of your abilities- ask your coach or parent what schools they would recommend for you
- Basic Preferences- close to home? small college or large university? city or rural? potential area of study?
- Academics- compare your GPA and SAT scores to schools on Collegeboard.com
- Tuition- Do you qualify for other types of scholarships or financial aid? Are you willing to pay to attend certain schools?
- Athletic program- will you play as a freshman or will you need to work your way into the line-up? does the coach's philosophy match your style of play?
This should give you a good start on a list of potential schools. Now here's where you push your recruiting to the next level. Your list should have no less than 30 schools on it. If you have less than 30 then you need to go back and add a few schools that seem a little more or less challenging academically or maybe a higher or lower skill level athletically, or some formula of both. After your list has been established then it's time to start contacting coaches.
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