Got Volleyball?? Side Out!!
Got Volleyball?? Side Out!!
By: Krystal W. Abbott
Does your son or daughter want to play college volleyball? Follow these ten steps and you will be good to go!
1. Make an honest assessment about whether or not your child is or has the potential to play college ball. Talk to the coaches if you are clueless about it.
2. Help them create a volleyball resume with all of your contact, statistics, honors and volleyball accomplishment information. A photo should also be on the resume.
3. Network with your child's high school and club coaches and find out what assistance they will provide contacting college coaches and arranging for them to see your child play.
4. Help your child send out his or her volleyball resume electronically to at least 200 different college coaches. Send an electronic copy and a hard copy to the coaches of your top 25 university choices.
5. Obtain a copy of the "NCAA Guide for the College-Bound Student Athlete" athttp://www.ncaa.org/ so that you can become familiar with the rules, the eligibility requirements, NCAA Clearinghouse registration and the college recruitment requirements.
6. Establish a profile on Universityathlete.com and Recruitingregistry.com. Doing this will let coaches know who you are and that you are interested in playing college ball.
7. Try to attend summer college volleyball camps; especially at any universities your child is particularly interested in.
8. Notify college coaches, from the universities your child is most interested in attending, of his or her tournament schedule. If they are interested in your child on paper, they may come to see him or her in action.
9. Once you know that your skills are on par with where you need to be statistically (no later than your junior year in high school) a skills DVD with some game footage should be put together in order to showcase your child's volleyball abilities to the college coaches.
10. Check the college volleyball team websites where you are interested in attending and look for a Recruit Profile form. You can fill that out with your basic information. While on the website you can also look at the current team, see how many juniors and seniors there are (graduating folks), see where you may fit in, and see where the coach may have needs.
Other helpful sports and recruiting volleyball websites are as follows:
There you go!! Good Luck!!
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