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online recruiting questionaires
wishivy
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What if they tell you they look forward to hearing from you soon and that they'll answer you any question, what should you tell more than you have in the actual questionnaire and how should you address the actual problem (if they want you on their team)?
I view these forms as a means to introduce yourself and nothing more. Once a dialogue is started, I would answer a coach's questions as promptly and directly as possible.
The online form (at least for rowers) asks a million questions. I’m sure my D would rather not have to fill one out if we can avoid it.
Ya know, I wonder what the online forms look like for other sports. Should take a look just out of curiosity.
I don't doubt that that is true! However, my son and I found for tennis that the tennis questionnaires tended to ask the same questions, so he saved his answers and was able to cut and paste them. I would be careful not to encourage my child to think that legitimate questions asked by a coach were somehow not worth his or her time to answer.
My son completed the questionnaire for each college in which he was interested, then emailed each coach to say that he had done so.
This response puzzles me. Every D1 school in every sport has an online questionnaire. Seriously? Kids would avoid this because it's a pain in the a**?? Coaches are doing these for kicks?
There's not a D1 coach in the country that's interested in anyone who is looking for shortcuts or not willing to make a 3 minute time investment.
It's not that hard. Seriously.
He can see which coaches are following his tournament results. Should he also be contacting these coaches directly to show even more interest? If the answer is yes, when should he start? He is our oldest, and the high school tennis coach has never had a player play in college, so he is not going to be any help at all in this process.
:rolleyes:
Have a nice day.
And I'm sure, when the time comes, my daughter will comply with any reasonable requirements presented by current or future coaches.
It is completely erroneous to assume that my tongue-firmly-in-cheek comment was based on a desire of avoidance of effort. C'mon, I wrote "a million questions." Some people took that seriously!?
Overall I suppose emailing the coach directly has had a 100% yield; however, some coaches did ask to make sure that she had filled out the online form.