Put Me In, Coach: A Parent's Guide to Winning the Game of College Recruiting

by Laurie A. Richter, Peri Poloni-Gabriel (Illustrator), Gail M. Kearns (Editor)

PUT ME IN, COACH is an award winning, must-have guidebook for parents and their student-athletes who want to be recruited to compete in athletics at the college level. Because of limited roster spots, only a handful of high school athletes will play their sport competitively in college and even fewer will get NCAA or NAIA scholarships. For your child to be one of them, you need a game plan, and the earlier you start, the better. If you are the parent of a student-athlete who is better than most in high school athletics, but college coaches aren't lining up at your door, you will find PUT ME IN, COACH indispensable. Advice and personal observations from 40 college coaches will help you understand how to market your child so coaches take notice, how to get money from any school even those that don t give athletic scholarships, how to identify the colleges that are the right fit for your child, how to understand recruiting from the coaches point of view, and how to make the right impression and get the most out of campus visits. PUT ME IN, COACH has won the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award and the Next Generation Indie Book Award, and was a finalist for the USA Best Books Award.

Genres: Sports

208 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2009

Reviews

[Jim Peterson · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent book! It was released in 2009 and is geared more towards football & basketball players, but the information contained inside is invaluable for parents and prospective student athletes as well. I am currently helping my son find a great fit for his college career in Cross Country & Track, and this book has keyed me into the dynamics of recruiting, NCAA rules & regulations that the coaches are supposed to follow, and given me the proper questions to ask as well as WHEN to ask them.

This is a definitive book for all parents & athletes who are considering sports in college at all levels, from Junior College through NAIA and all NCAA Divisions.

[John Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informative, little dated.


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