<p>Can anyone give me info about the official visits for athletes. I’m headed for one next week and just wondering what to expect?</p>
<p>Also, what type of clothes should I bring (for a girl). What attire is expected to be worn. Are jeans and a shirt ok, or is a skirt expected?</p>
<p>Can anyone give a run down of their experiences on an official visit?</p>
<p>THANKS!</p>
<p>I would post on the college board where you are being recruited and title it “Question for Recruited Athletes”.</p>
<p>My athlete son [with Mom and Dad] met with a few coaches, and we crossed paths with many a girl recruit.
We typically found most potentials in what I’d describe as a moderate length skirt(for their age) with slightly less in nice slacks. Only a couple in short short skirts, and only a couple in jeans.</p>
<p>Naturally, dressing up in a skirt conveys a desire to impress(always a good thing) and can hint a maturity not always found in high schoolers. Dress slacks show this, too. Jeans at such an important meeting are just a half-step above sweat pants. Of those that chose skirts, most all the potential girls are young, athletic and had a trim figure well worth showing off, yet most chose moderate skirts.</p>
<p>I suspect they chose moderate length or nice slacks to appear more “tailored” and certainly gave a more professional appearance. Those in the shortest skirt were very attractive, but they, and those in jeans seemed a bit out of place given the time of day, and situation. I don’t know if either would give the proper impression. We approached this just as one might if it were a job interview; we saw many parallels.</p>
<p>I can only guess how effective each style was, or if it was even taken into consideration; but I report to you what I often saw.</p>
<p>I just don’t get it. I mean what matters is the person not the dress.</p>
<p>My son has been solicited by coaches in a vague way, like “let me know when you are coming down to visit.” I don’t know where this is heading as the visit is to occur in October but I’m not getting all flustered about it. Good luck to you!!!</p>
<p>Well, bhgrip, it absolutely is the person that matters. But how do we know the person? From a resume? From a photo? From a 10 minute meeting? That is why the clothes we choose often do matter. Not necessarily in the sense that dressing up proves a person is better than one that doesn’t, but in that the clothes a person chooses to wear do often say something about the person. They can show a respect for a situation, people being met, or even for oneself. Or similarly- can show a lack of respect for those things.</p>
<p>Think of an extreme example to document this. If a person attended a July funeral in bold red white and blue, many would think that failing to show proper respect for the departed, and survivors. Yet that outfit might be well suited for the same people- but at a picnic.
Or
a 25 yr old woman in perfect makeup, dress, with heels and hose might look great in a nightclub, but if her job was sitting at a pool in a lifegaurd chair? That too would seem inappropriate, and she would look unprepared for the job.</p>
<p>Clothes we choose are one of many ways others see and learn more about us.
My opinion!</p>