They should hopefully be noticed when they begin high school. They need to be doing research all throughout high school and join the NCAA Clearinghouse as early as possible. LOR’s from coaches they personally know can be invaluable!
That depends a little on the sport. Newspapers are filled with headlines about football and basketball coaches offering scholarships to high school sophomores and juniors and even evaluating middle-schoolers who seem to have a lot of potential. But those stories are making news precisely because they’re not normal.
Recruitment begins with talent and it’s never too early to develop skill, strength, and discipline. As an underclassmen prospective athletes should become familiar with the recruiting rules for their sport by downloading a copy of the “NCAA Guide for the College-Bound Student-Athlete.” Students and parents should begin discussing the process with their high school and club coaches and looking at colleges that would be a good fit athletically. By junior year, students should be narrowing down options. Some students will have official campus visits or sign letters of intent as early as junior year and others may be forced by NCAA recruiting regulations to wait until senior year.
Typically the best time to start is late in your sophomore year or early in your junior year of high school. Starting then lets you be thorough in your search. It also gives you the opportunity to get ahead of the curve, before most college teams have locked down their recruiting classes. That said, many athletes don’t start until late in their junior or senior years. While this isn’t ideal, many such athletes have still been very successful with recruiting. Either way, the most important thing is to be organized and have a clear strategy on how you’re going to make a team.
In general, a lot earlier than the average student. Many college athletes will have been recruited although maybe not signed up from as young as 13 years old (especially for basketball, baseball and football). If you are a student athlete that is in a position where you have not been heavily recruited by college coaches for whatever reason, the best way to get seen is to start making yourself known. How do you do that? there are many opportunities ….
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