Recruiting Etiquette: return ALL emails/telephone calls?

needscaffeine
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:49:42 +0000

I will be interested to hear the feedback about this. My son, also a swimmer, is very reserved and it is hard enough to get him to engage with coaches of schools he is actually interested in. He doesn’t answer unsolicited e-mail except for a couple that indicated that the coach was writing specifically to him and had done some research on him. S has not gotten any unsolicited phone calls. I think she should probably respond to the caller and let him know she isn’t interested or he may keep calling. I think an e-mail would be fine in this case. If it were S, he probably would not want to turn down the coach over the phone unless he absolutely had to. What do others think?