Need Volleyball Advice!

squidge
Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:26:15 +0000

Volleyball recruitment starts earlier and earlier each year. We know players who have verbally committed as early as 8th grade, but that’s the extreme. As imafan says, all offers are verbal until the early signing period senior year. My daughter (rising senior) verbally committed a few weeks before her junior year started. Of her team mates, one committed early summer just after sophomore year, one during the summer before junior year, and then pretty regularly starting Fall of junior year. 6 of 10 were committed before the end of junior year and at this point, all girls have verbal offers and plan to decide by September 1. All plan to sign in the early period in November. (8 D1, 2 D2) There is a big push in vb to commit before your senior year, because just about all recruiting activity takes place during club season, which is Spring/Summer, so waiting til your senior club season can be very risky. You are definitely not too early, I would say you are some what late to vb recruiting, BUT that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of great opportunities out there! Make a list of schools she is interested in right now and reach out to them immediately. Have your D call the coaches directly and ask where they are in their 2013 recruiting cycle. Coaches are very straight forward and are not interested in wasting your time or theirs. She needs to be making these call RIGHT NOW - college games begin a few weeks and it will be tough to reach them. Talking to other schools will not cause her to miss out on opportunities she has now, but assuming she will want to narrow down her list and visit her top choices, you need to be knee deep in the process as quickly as possible. Feel free to private message me if you have any specific questions. We learned a lot helping our D through the process as well as watching all her team mates.