January 23, 2025
One question that we get from a lot of families boils down to “Is now the right time for me to get recruited?” While there’s no single, clear-cut answer to this, we outlined a few key things to think about depending on your high school grad year. No matter where you are in your
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January 22, 2025
Welcome to the Coaches’ Corner! We sat down with Bobby Perez (Head Coach, Emory Baseball) to talk through what high-academic coaches need to see from student-athletes during their recruiting process – and much more.
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January 8, 2025
Welcome to the Coaches’ Corner! We sat down with Brian Hamm (Head Coach, Yale Baseball) to discuss the differences in high-academic recruiting – and much more. In this conversation, we discuss: How the high-academic recruiting process is different for both student-athletes and college coaches The difference in timing for selective admission/high-academic college recruits and
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October 29, 2024
Many parents and players who reach out to us with questions about our showcases also have questions about the recruiting process as a whole. To help as many parents and student-athletes as possible, we decided to address one of our most frequently-asked questions: What should I be doing right now to get recruited to play
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October 29, 2024
In the fall, a lot of students and student-athletes – especially juniors, but also freshmen and sophomores who are proactively getting ahead in the process – are starting to think about their college list. The ultimate goal of the college and recruiting process is to find the school that will be the best all-around fit
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With the busy summer season in the rearview, and with fall ball wrapping up, it’s time to put the finishing touches on your in-season work and look towards tackling recruiting proactively heading into next summer – and you can start by crossing off a few items in the college search process. From visiting campuses, to
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August 30, 2022
Headfirst Honor Roll Camps is excited to partner with Realplay to maximize your exposure to college coaches by providing you the option of verified video to share on any profiles, social media platforms, and importantly, with any college coaches on your list. Within 5 days of camp’s conclusion, you will have your video available — all
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August 11, 2022
Each year, we host approximately 2500 student-athletes and their families and speak with thousands more via email and phone. In August and September, the most frequently asked question we get as we speak with student-athletes and families has to do with the timing of our fall showcase (in California): what are the types of recruiting
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April 1, 2022
This is a guest post from Dean Stotz, former Associate Head Coach of Stanford Baseball (1976 to 2014). To help student-athletes get even more insight into the recruiting process and how coaches approach their task of finding the right recruits for their program, we’re going to feature thoughts from Coach Stotz over the coming months.
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March 16, 2022
This is a guest post from Dean Stotz, former Associate Head Coach of Stanford Baseball (1976 to 2014). To help student-athletes get even more insight into the recruiting process and how coaches approach their task of finding the right recruits for their program, we’re going to feature thoughts from Coach Stotz over the coming months.
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