The College Athletic Recruiting Reference: A Quick Guide to Get Your Athlete Recruited

By Mark Phillips

The College Athletic Recruiting Reference explains the challenges and the steps in the college athletic recruiting process, college athletic associations and eligibility standards. The author shares resources and first-hand experiences in youth sports and the college athletic recruiting process.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Phillips
• Release date: Jan 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005504090

Mark Phillips

Mark Phillips was born in Southfield, Michigan. He fell in love with the written word at an early age, devouring the Hardy Boys mysteries. After graduating to adult books, Mark's influences were: Stephen King, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut and Elmore Leonard.Mark is the author of Beneath the Mask of Sanity and the sequel Beyond the Mask.He lives in Livonia, Michigan with his wife and their three children.

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The College Athletic Recruiting Reference:

A Quick Guide to get Your Athlete Recruited

By Mark Phillips

Copyright 2022 Mark Phillips

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Table of Contents

Title/Copyright

Introduction

Chapter 1- The Motivation: Why you should become a collegiate athlete?

Chapter 2- The Field: Understanding collegiate athletic associations

Chapter 3- Practice: Preparation for being recruited

Chapter 4- Game Day: Get recruited

Conclusion

Appendix A- Timeline

Appendix B- Other resources and links

Introduction

I grew up like many Americans kids in the 1980's and 1990's, I was consumed by sports and athletic competitions. Whether I was watching it on television, going to sporting events with my father or playing with my friends at the park; I loved sports. As a child, I dreamed of becoming a collegiate athlete. Unfortunately, those dreams never had a true chance of becoming reality.

When I started high school, I was obsessed with watching and playing basketball. As I started freshman year, I was determined to try-out for the basketball team. Somehow I was selected to join the freshman basketball B team (or more likely they just didn't cut anybody). I tried out again in my sophomore year but I was not selected for the junior varsity team. I was not selected because I had marginal grades, I did not get in basketball shape prior to try-outs and I had very limited organized basketball experience and skills. During my junior year, my friend and I joined the cross country team to get in shape for basketball or that what we told ourselves. We ended up really having fun during our time in cross country. During senior year we returned for another season of cross country. I really enjoyed running, hanging out with friends and the team camaraderie. Overall my high school athletic career was fun but unfocused and it did not prepare me for a transition into college athletics. I hold no false illusions that I was a superior athlete that missed my shot, but I am confident I could have competed at the collegiate level.

The main factors that stopped my athletic progression was not having the right guidance, my (and my parents) ignorance of the path to college athletics and I did not understand that participating in college athletics was an attainable goal.

As I became a father, I had dreams of my children becoming collegiate athletes. While I would never force my children to be a collegiate athlete, all three of my children are/or were high school athletes. And I would add, that they are/or were above average athletes.

My son participated in track and field, competing in long jump, triple jump and various sprint