Recruiting Etiquette: return ALL emails/telephone calls?

Momtothreegirls
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:32:43 +0000

Hi all,

my daughter is a rising senior and a D-3 level swimmer. She is active in the recruiting process in several D3 schools right now in which she is very interested. Of course, as I’m sure all others have experienced, she receives numerous emails from swim coaches at colleges in which she has absolutely no interest, and also some snail mail from them. She also received her first unsolicited phone call (voice message) yesterday from a college coach who was reaching out to her. I had initially thought we would treat these solicitations much as we treat the voluminous amount of college mail we receive - ignore them. But the phone message has us thinking that this is rude. Should she return the phone call even if she has absolutely no interest in this college? It was a fairly lengthy message. She was also thinking she could just email the coach and politely tell him she is not interested. What are your thoughts?

And what about all the emails? Those are less personal and don’t need to be returned, right?