Recruiting Timeline
Freshman Year: recruiting timeline
- Grades – very, very important!
- Watch college games
- Attend college camps at schools you might like to attend
- Play many sports, train with weights
- Play lacrosse outside of regular spring season
Sophomore Year: recruiting timeline
- Grades – very important- take challenging courses
- Watch college games
- Attend College camps
- Play many sports
- Play lacrosse outside of spring season
- PSAT's
- Research schools of interest
- Start a broad list of schools
Things to consider:
- Academics
- Athletics
- Size
- Location (weather, city, proximity to family)
- Rules: no phone calls
By March/April:
- Send intro letter to schools/coaches of interest and include the following:
- Contact information - complete, accurate
- Academic information - complete, accurate
- Athletic information - sports, awards
- Other involvement - keep it short
Letter - write it yourself
- Introduce yourself
- Express your interest
- State what you are looking for in a school
Colleges Response:
- Questionnaire
- Return it with all the info you know; be honest and forthright
- Send updates for questionnaire with important info: grades, awards, test scores
Summer:
- Play Lacrosse; go to camp
- By end of summer: list of schools to coaches - top 10
Junior Year: recruiting timeline
Fall of Junior Year
- Stay in touch/ show interest
- Play Lacrosse
- Contact College coaches, tell them which tourneys you will play
Rules: 9/1
- Written correspondence allowed/ no phone calls
- College coaches can receive but not make calls
- Respond honestly
- Visit top choices - notify coach early to set up a meeting
Following 1st semester/marking period
- Send Transcripts
- Start on: PSATs, SATs, SAT II's
Winter Junior Year
- List of schools to coaches
- Intro letters
- High school schedules with #/ summer schedule
- Respond honestly/stay in touch
- Visit campus/arrange to meet with the coach
- Send transcripts
- Take standardized tests
- Find out which are needed by the schools you are interested in
- Send coach evaluations to club coaches
- Go to camp either at a school of interest or where the coach will be working
7/1 - Phone calls
- Send updated transcripts
- Be yourself/be honest
- Ask questions, voice concerns
- RELAX
Signing date: 2nd Wednesday in November/Letter of Intent
- Be aware of early admission deadlines
- Most importantly, if you want to take your visits - take them. If a coach wants you that badly they will wait.
- Remember, that at the end of the day, if you break your leg, and you can never play again... you need to be happy where you go to school! Don’t pick a school just because of the coach (they may leave) or the lacrosse program (see above!)
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