February 23, 2022
Throughout the spring, Headfirst and our partners and friends over at Diamond College Advisory Team (DCAT) are once again hosting a series of webinars on the high-academic recruiting process. As we record and post each part, we’ll update this blog post with the video. Take a look through to watch all three parts below.
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February 1, 2022
With the spring fast approaching, it’s time for student-athletes to put the finishing touches on their hard work this off-season and cross off a few items in their college search process. From visiting campuses and building out targeted school lists to contacting college coaches and preparing for standardized tests, check out a few items that
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October 3, 2021
Each year, we host over 2500 student-athletes and their families and speak with thousands more via email and phone. From September through November, the most frequently asked question we get as we speak with student-athletes and families has to do with the timing of our Headfirst Southeast camp in November: what are the types of
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June 16, 2021
Welcome back for the ninth and final part of the pre-camp curriculum before the live pre-camp webinar and Q&A. In this final part, we’re going to hit some key takeaways and then focus in on “defining the win” both while you’re at camp with us and in the recruiting process overall. Key Takeaways: Coach
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June 16, 2021
As you continue to prepare for camp by researching and building your school list, communicating with college coaches and developing your game, it’s also important to be prepared mentally for your time in a showcase setting. Although you’re still playing softball – the game you love and that feels familiar – there will still
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June 16, 2021
Over the last handful of years, more and more recruiting has been driven by video and analytics. The tools behind this change – like video, Blast Motion, Rapsodo and others – are incredibly valuable and useful for player development and college coaches are also now turning to them to help evaluate prospective student-athletes to
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June 9, 2021
In Part 2 of the pre-camp curriculum (“How to Stand Out to College Coaches at Camp”) we touched on different ways in which players could get their names highlighted on a coach’s recruiting list – and one of the ways was by standing out on paper with your objective measurements. For Part 6 of
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June 9, 2021
Effective communication with college coaches is the foundation upon which you’ll build a lot of your other recruiting efforts. If you are being diligent in your school research and in building out your list of qualities, your first touchpoint with your identified target schools is usually going to be email, prior to seeing them
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June 9, 2021
This spring, we were excited to have college softball BACK! Seeing our Honor Roll partner programs in action (and some of them making runs deep into the postseason at the D3 and D1 levels) was a fantastic return to the spring season. With this excitement, in late April we “sat down” with some of our
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June 2, 2021
We’re excited to be partnering again in 2021 with our friends at SportsRecruits to equip every enrolled Honor Roll student-athlete with a SportsRecruits profile. Digital profiles like SportsRecruits can help student-athletes gain efficiency in the recruiting process by hosting all of your information in one place, making it easy for you to send college
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