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College Basketball Recruiting

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• Start your recruiting efforts in ninth grade (if you are older, you will do the same things, but will fit everything in a shorter time). Begin by familiarizing yourself with colleges that you think you might like to attend. You can do this by listening more attentively than usual when your friends, brothers and sisters, or parents talk about a college. Try to ask questions so you can learn more. If you live close to a school, even if you aren't interested in that school, you can go to sports events to get familiar with the level and style of play. Also start thinking about what types of schools you might be interested in -- where they are, how big they are, the academic level, etc.).
• Parents of ninth graders can use CBound to research schools. Go to the CBound Schools page and explore the information links for a school. Using the MySchools feature, you can keep track of the schools your athlete might attend. Familiarize yourself with how recruiting happens by reading the NCAA and NAIA guides for the College-Bound Student Athlete. Even better, purchase a CBound Gold membership and review the online DVD and timelines in CBound Resources.
• As a sophomore and older, get more active in the recruiting process by following what's happening in the programs you are interested in (CBound's MySchools makes this easy to do). If you have a college located close to you, attend sports events and take note of the environment, level of play, and coaching style. If you can, observe a practice. This gives you a feel what you like and dislike. Consider if you could see yourself there -- playing in the program, being at that school, or being someplace similar.
• Also beginning sophomore year or older, mail and call coaches (contact info is in CBound Schools. This starts a relationship with them. A coach may not be able to contact the athlete, even to respond to an email or phone message. Sports associations (NCAA, NAIA, etc.) rules restrict what coaches can do. But athletes can always call or initiate contact with the coach.
• Talk to former and current players and your high school or club coaches who are familiar with the college coaches and programs. And ask the college coaches themselves questions. Don't be intimidated. They want you to be interested. The CBound Resource Center has a list of questions to ask the coach and many more sample question is in the NCAA Guide for the College-Bound Student-Athlete.