October 3, 2021
Each year, we host over 2500 student-athletes and their families and speak with thousands more via email and phone. From September through November, the most frequently asked question we get as we speak with student-athletes and families has to do with the timing of our Headfirst Southeast camp in November: what are the types of… Read more »
June 16, 2021
Welcome back for the ninth and final part of the pre-camp curriculum before the live pre-camp webinar and Q&A. In this final part, we’re going to hit some key takeaways and then focus in on “defining the win” both while you’re at camp with us and in the recruiting process overall. Key Takeaways: Coach… Read more »
June 16, 2021
As you continue to prepare for camp by researching and building your school list, communicating with college coaches and developing your game, it’s also important to be prepared mentally for your time in a showcase setting. Although you’re still playing softball – the game you love and that feels familiar – there will still… Read more »
June 16, 2021
Over the last handful of years, more and more recruiting has been driven by video and analytics. The tools behind this change – like video, Blast Motion, Rapsodo and others – are incredibly valuable and useful for player development and college coaches are also now turning to them to help evaluate prospective student-athletes to… Read more »
June 9, 2021
In Part 2 of the pre-camp curriculum (“How to Stand Out to College Coaches at Camp”) we touched on different ways in which players could get their names highlighted on a coach’s recruiting list – and one of the ways was by standing out on paper with your objective measurements. For Part 6 of… Read more »
June 9, 2021
Effective communication with college coaches is the foundation upon which you’ll build a lot of your other recruiting efforts. If you are being diligent in your school research and in building out your list of qualities, your first touchpoint with your identified target schools is usually going to be email, prior to seeing them… Read more »
June 9, 2021
This spring, we were excited to have college softball BACK! Seeing our Honor Roll partner programs in action (and some of them making runs deep into the postseason at the D3 and D1 levels) was a fantastic return to the spring season. With this excitement, in late April we “sat down” with some of our… Read more »
June 2, 2021
We’re excited to be partnering again in 2021 with our friends at SportsRecruits to equip every enrolled Honor Roll student-athlete with a SportsRecruits profile. Digital profiles like SportsRecruits can help student-athletes gain efficiency in the recruiting process by hosting all of your information in one place, making it easy for you to send college… Read more »
June 2, 2021
A key piece to being efficient in your recruiting efforts is identifying your targeted list of schools, so that you can make sure that you’re maximizing your exposure to these programs. When building out a college list, there are a few foundations that we look to build on: You are looking for overall, holistic… Read more »
May 26, 2021
“How do I stand out to college coaches at camp?” is one of the most frequently-asked – and pressurized – questions that we get from student-athletes attending our events. The good news is that there are a lot of different ways to stand out to coaches at camp, and to grab their attention as… Read more »
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