Newbie question- How do you start the recruiting process?

njcentconf
Thu, 21 May 2009 13:48:21 +0000

It depends on the school and your strategy. If you are looking at a recruited athlete at a Div 1 for a sport where there’s some scholarship money available, then you should be not too much below their middle 50%. If your strategy is to combine athletic and academic strengths and leverage for more money at a Div 2, then the scores need to be above the middle 50% as posted on the websites such as princeton review or college board. And if you are looking at a Div 3 and your strategy is to use the athletics to get in, then you need to be close to the middle 50%. It really varies by school. I’ve had smaller Div 3’s tell my daughter that her soccer combined with her #3 rank in her class would get her full tuition, and I’ve had highly selective LAC’s scan down a list of club soccer players at good tournaments and not even look for players on the field unless they had a 3.5 GPA.