Player Self-Evaluation Form

Athletes can receive non-recruiting materials from college coaches, such as questionnaires, camp brochures, and nonathletic institutional publications at any time – but most of the mailings during your sophomore year.

Getting mail is better than not getting mail, but getting mail only means they know about you. Getting mail does not mean a scholarship offer will follow. Most schools have 500-plus players on their mailing lists and sign around 25 kids a year.

You will also receive questionnaires in the mail – fill them all out. Look at each one of them as a job application – even from the schools you have zero interest in.

Ask Yourself: If they were the only one to offer you a scholarship, and it came down to them or you having to pay to go to school, would you mind having a degree from that school on your wall?

Along those same lines, a lot of questionnaires will ask you to rate your interest in their school or rank schools you are interested in.

• Put that school high on the list or at No. 1.
• You would never apply for a job at Coca-Cola and tell them you like Pepsi, Dr. Pepper and Sprite better.
• Create as many opportunities for yourself as you can by returning every questionnaire, ranking your interest in that school as high as possible, and remember it's a long way to Signing Day.
• You never know what school will be your new favorite.

A good quote to remember when talking to coaches early on in the process is: "I have dreamed my whole life of being a (insert mascot name here)."

Athletes can receive non-recruiting materials from college coaches, such as questionnaires, camp brochures, and nonathletic institutional publications at any time – but most of the mailings during your sophomore year.

Getting mail is better than not getting mail, but getting mail only means they know about you. Getting mail does not mean a scholarship offer will follow. Most schools have 500-plus players on their mailing lists and sign around 25 kids a year.

You will also receive questionnaires in the mail – fill them all out. Look at each one of them as a job application – even from the schools you have zero interest in.

Ask Yourself: If they were the only one to offer you a scholarship, and it came down to them or you having to pay to go to school, would you mind having a degree from that school on your wall?

Along those same lines, a lot of questionnaires will ask you to rate your interest in their school or rank schools you are interested in.

• Put that school high on the list or at No. 1.
• You would never apply for a job at Coca-Cola and tell them you like Pepsi, Dr. Pepper and Sprite better.
• Create as many opportunities for yourself as you can by returning every questionnaire, ranking your interest in that school as high as possible, and remember it's a long way to Signing Day.
• You never know what school will be your new favorite.

A good quote to remember when talking to coaches early on in the process is: "I have dreamed my whole life of being a (insert mascot name here)."