unofficial school visits, tours, demonstrated interest

345winter
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:08:48 +0000

This is all so helpful. Our son has been emailing just a handful of coaches, when I suggested another school he has some interest in he said he shouldn’t have too many schools, but I think he should have a longer list as you never know what will work out. His sport is rowing - I don’t know if that changes it because there are far fewer schools that have rowing?
I also had a question about the differences between recruiting for men vs. women. Son and a female rower have been sharing their recruiting news/ideas/etc with each other. I think that recruiting for men and women in the same sport is like apples and oranges. Is that accurate? There are more than a few schools that don’t even have men’s rowing (or it is a “club” sport, not NCAA sport), but do have women’s rowing.
And finally - son did very well at Youth Nationals - making the grand final - he seems to think that will make no impression on coaches. Any insight here? Maybe he knows more than I do!