I must say I feel like there is a language all to itself used by coaches about prospective recruits.
My DD (rising sophomore) was to several summer "camps" in a sport she expects to play in college, D1 and D3 schools of varying selectivity and varying intensity in the sport.
How does one read the feedback? Are there any ways to look at these interactions, albeit that they are early (not so for D1 though) and divine the tea leaves?
I my DD case, the phrase "immediate impact player" was used by coaches. I believe they use this for top recruits that could start as a freshman. The coaches that used it were very interested. Of course coaches used the phrase " a good fit" for our program. Some used the phrase " watching your development" which we decided meant your not good enough at this point.
I don't know your daughter's sport but rising soph is pretty early for most serious recruiting that I've heard of except for maybe soccer and basketball. Agree that there is a lot of reading between the lines with emails from coaches. We didn't know it at the time, but any emails about her particular school, classes, dances, off season sports, etc are a good sign about their being interested in you. I think it's good to respond to all those emails as well.
in basketball we like to use the term (tweener) or in-between positions----like too small to play one position and not fast enough for another. Really, as a soph it's really early in the game unless she lead a team to a state championship or had an outstanding AAU season otherwise,,,,,,,,coaches are blowing a lot of smoke up there and still looking for the best talent that can get through the admissions process....
It seems like the buzzwords differ from school to school and seem communicated by people other than the coach at times, like the current students. This is going to be a bumpy ride.
