Merit aid for lacrosse playing daughter

Please do not use a recruiting service, your D does not need it. It is not worth the money at all, stay here on CC and posters can give you good guidance. These services talk a good game, stoke your fear levels, say they have coach contacts etc etc, but many of their emails go unanswered by coaches, some schools even have emails from those services go straight to the trash. I’ll stop there.

Your D needs to:

1)Talk to her coach and see realistically what levels and conferences she should target. She doesn’t need her coach to do anything on her behalf now. She should keep her coach in the loop.

2)Get her game and highlight film in order. She can put the film on a youtube channel (one that she creates), and pin a 2 min max highlight film on her twitter account.

3)Start filling out recruiting questionnaires on each team’s website. Cast a wide net.

4)Follow up the recruiting questionnaires with an email to all the coaches. The head coach, assistants, and recruiting coordinator (not all schools have that many coaches). Highlight her academics, test score, lacrosse stats, and relevant (strong) speed/strength measurements. Link to her twitter account and youtube video. Attach a resume (if she has one) and unofficial 6 semester transcript.

5)See if she gets any replies. Some schools’ recruiting classes will be full, others won’t be, but it will take time and effort for her to find these opportunities. Follow up in a week if she hasn’t received a reply.

6)Continue fleshing out the parallel second list of schools where she would not be a recruited athlete.

7)Stay in contact with the local D3 coaches who have expressed interest, if those schools interest your D.

Good luck and keep us updated.

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