MileSplit HQ - It's College Week here at MileSplit, with National Signing Day coming up tomorrow. What better way to celebrate the occassion than to look at how some ahtletes came to their decisions. A 10-part series crafted by CO MileSplit owner Alan Versaw, below is a highly detailed, step-by-step process of how you should go about getting to run in college. Also, be sure to send in your signing day pictures tomorrow, and you can be put up on the front page of MileSplit NY!
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College Recruiting Series #1 - The Eligibility Center
If you dream of competing in college as a scholarship athlete, your dreams begin at the NCAA (or NAIA) Initial Eligibility Center. Free content.
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College Recruiting Series #2 - Getting on the Radar Screen
It's often more difficult than you'd expect to get noticed by the college programs you want to take note. A little understanding of the process goes a long way.
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College Recruiting Series #3 - What Amount of Scholarship Should I Expect?
My grandfather's answer to the question posed in the title of this article would be to expect none and be delighted in what you end up with. There's a good deal of wisdom wrapped up in that answer, but it probably doesn't reflect a realistic assessment of why you took a second glance at this article.
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College Recruiting Series #4 - Visits and Contacts
For athletes who find themselves in the recruiting process, there are few--if any--sources of more confusion than the rules surrounding visits and coach contacts. I admit that I sometimes have trouble sorting it all out myself.
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College Recruiting Series #5 - The National Letter of Intent
The implications of signing a National Letter of Intent are often not well understood, but they should be. It is a legal document that is binding on both parties.
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College Recruiting Series #6 - Sizing Up the Coach
Don't feel badly about trying to "size up" the coaches during the recruiting process; they're doing the same with you.
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College Recruiting Series #7 - Questions to Ask
Most prospective student-athletes who go on a visit don't come with nearly enough questions to ask. Here are some questions you may want to think about asking.
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College Recruiting Series #8 - Transitioning from High School to College
The choices you make between now and August will have a great deal to do with how successfully you start out as a college athlete. Here are several things you want to give some attention to.
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College Recruiting Series #9 - The JCs and a Parting Thought or Two
In this installment of the series, I try to touch on some issues that have been brought to my attention during the process of writing these articles. Rather than try to rewrite this information into the original articles, I've included it in a "loose ends" kind of article here at the end.
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College Recruiting Series #10 - Self-Marketing 101
In today's world, making yourself stand out without appearing as if you're drawing undue attention to yourself is an important skill to have. That's probably no less true with trying to find a college track and field scholarship offer than it is anywhere else. So, how do you pull it off?