CJV RECRUITING PRESENTATION

SATURDAY DECEMBER 5, 2015

Chris Willis Davidson College – Head Coach

Everybody Has a Different

Story About Their Recruiting

Process Don’t get caught up in what has happened with your

teammates

Don’t think you are unique or special

Don’t think coaches will know who you are or magically discover you

Educate yourself on the programs and the process

Be proactive

Communicate with coaches (high school, club, and college)

Make yourself known and standout

Realize that your talent isn’t enough. Hard work, character, and diligence matter

Freshman Year

This is a great time to discover your love for volleyball, so play high school volleyball and another sport

Play club to see if it fits your commitment level and passion for game

Attend an overnight summer camp and local clinics

Attend your local college matches

Watch as much college/international volleyball on tv as possible

Play doubles!!

Communication from colleges is minimal (questionnaires and camp info). Your coaches can be a conduit.

Sophomore Year

Contact colleges and get on their radar

Play with a competitive club program that will challenge you

Get on college campuses to see what you like and don’t like

Research college programs: Richkern.com

Prepvolleyball.com

Attend camps of schools you’re interested in

Formal communication begins (phone calls, texts, emails), June 15/July1

PLAY!!

Junior Year

NCAA Eligibility Center (why?)

ACT/SAT (give yourself options!)

What club is going to help me reach my potential as a volleyball player?

Get honest assessments!

Narrow your schools down to 5 and get feedback from those coaches

Get to know the programs (academics, athlete experience, coaches).

Attend summer camps of schools in the mix. PLAY!

If you know, you know. Verbal Commit

Senior Year

Official visits (if necessary)

Apply to college(s)

Final Decision: Verbal Commit

Signing Day: National Letter of Intent

November

April

Get ready, because you’re not!

Jason Oliver High Point University – Head Coach

Video Guidelines

3-5 Seconds of text Identifing:

Players Name

Jersey Number in the video

Position

Grad year

Vital Statistics

Video Guidelines: Real Time

Highlights Specific to the

Athlete’s Position Outsides

Serve receive to attack and transition attacking

Blocking to attack

Defense

Serving

Setters All plays you can set. Show same sets together

Transition setting from serve receive

Defense and blocking

Serving

Middles Attacking in transition (Serve receive and blocking)

Serve and defense if applicable

Liberos Serve receive and defense

Serving

NO ATTACKING!

What to include…

Serving should be included, but not an emphasis

Include both sides of the court, preferably from behind baseline

NO slow motion plays

Identify athlete before the play or by number at the beginning of video

Not every touch has to be perfect Coaches want to see not only the result of the skill,

but how well an athlete moves, so stopping the play right before a skill is executed hinders a coach’s ability to truly assess that player’s potential

Unedited Game Footage

Recruiting videos do NOT have to be a fancy production. The best videos include accurate highlights according to player’s position, are posted on YouTube, Vimeo, or similar site, and sent in a personalized email. If a 6’1 middle who touches 10’3 starts her video with passing and digging, a lot of coaches won’t continue watching if they don’t know those stats.

Like a good book captures the reader’s attention from the first line, a recruiting video should capture a coach’s attention from the first clip.

Verna Julaton UNC Charlotte – Assistant Coach

Recruiting Terminology

Recruiting Materials/Electronic

Correspondence

Evaluation

Contact

Quiet Period

Dead Period

Recruiting Materials/Electronic

Correspondence – General Rule

Recruiting Materials/General Correspondence related to Athletics Allowed after September 1st of a PSA’s Junior

year in high school

Emails (and facsimile) Allowed after September 1st of a PSA’s Junior

year in high school. Must be private between sender and recipient

Text and Instant Messaging Allowed after September 1st of a PSA’s Junior

year in high school. Must be private between sender and recipient

Evaluation

Any off-campus activity designed to

assess academic or athletic ability

Any observation of prospect

participating in practice or competition at

any site

Contact

Any face to face encounter between a prospect or the prospect’s parents, relative, legal guardian(s), or institutional staff member/athletic representative during which ANY dialogue occurs in excess of an exchange of greetings

Any encounter that takes place on the grounds of the prospect’s institution, practice, conest, etc shall be counted as a contact regardless of the conversation that occurs.

Periods

Quiet Period When it is permissible to make in-person recruiting

contacts ONLY on the institution’s campus. No in person, off-campus recruiting contacts or evaluations may be made during the quiet period

Dead Period When it is NOT permissible to make in person

recruiting contacts or evaluations on or off the institution’s campus or to permit official or unofficial visits by PSA’s to the institution’s campus

It remains permissible, however, for an institutional staff member to write or telephone a PSA during a dead period

Resources: NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

700 W Washington Street, PO Box 6222,

Indianapolis, IN 46206

Phone: 317-917-6222

Fax: 317-917-6888

Website: www.ncaa.org

Resources - Websites

Information from Eligibility Center for

PSA’s:

http://web1.ncaa.org/ECWR2/NCAA_EMS/N

CAA.jsp

Guide for the College Bound Student-

Athlete:

http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdo

wnloads/CBSA.pdf

Maggie Malone Former Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator

Wingate University

DI vs DII

Division 1

Sponsor 14 sports

by NCAA

Full Athletic

Scholarships: 12

Division II

Sponsor 10 sports

by NCAA

Full Athletic

Scholarships: 8

Scholarships can

be a mix of athletic

and academic

money.

DII Scholarship Packages

Athletic scholarships can be split up between multiple athletes.

Athletes can receive packages of academic and athletic money. Counter: A PSA that must be counted against

your institutions financial aid limit. I.E: any athletic aid

Non-Counter: Scholarships that do not go against the team total. I.E: Pell Grants, state grants, student with excellent grades.

Communication with Coaches

July 15 before the PSA’s JR. year

Prior to this coaches can send camp

information, admissions information

Does this mean the

communication has to wait until

then? NO

Send emails, make them personal,

stand out

Send highlight videos/skills videos

Get on their radar early

Unofficial / Official Visits

PSA can take an unlimited amount of

unofficial visits.

This are unpaid visits to the university.

Suggest taking as many unofficial visits, as

offered.

PSA can take one official visit per D2 school.

This is a paid visit to the university.

Why DII???

Major of choice.

Its not the next 4 years, it’s the next 40.

Make sure to ask about major.

Small class size

Community

Still be involved clubs, sororities,

volunteer opportunities

Sydney Kunz, Jessica Raines, &

Alex Thompson

Current Student/Athletes

Queens University of Charlotte

Your Questions For the Panel

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BAD

QUESTION…SOMEONE ELSE IS THINKING

THE SAME THING YOU ARE…SO ASK!