9 Simple Ways to Improve Your Chances of Playing College Baseball-Part 2

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I’ve already listed four of the nine things that you can do that will improve your chances of playing baseball at the college level in a previous post. These tips aren’t going to make a D2 player into a D1 player. They will give the D2 player a better chance at actually playing college baseball on … Read more

9 Ways to Improve Your Chances of Playing College Baseball-Part 1

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Here are nine things that you can do that will improve your chances of playing college baseball. These aren’t about improving specific baseball skills, although that may happen. It’s about giving you the edge over another player who has the exact same stats and ability ratings as you do. In other words, these suggestions aren’t … Read more

5 Financial Mistakes that Can Limit Your Chance of Playing Your Sport at the College Level

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So far I’ve covered college recruiting mistakes concerning signs that you don’t understand the college athletic recruiting process and mistakes players and families make about their ability and what it means. Today, I’m going to cover mistakes related to finances when looking for athletic scholarships. If it’s really about using sports to help pay for college, you need to … Read more

Must Reads about the Odds of Playing College Sports and Receiving Athletic Scholarships

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Just a casual browsing of my blog would reveal that I’m not anti-athlete. When my son wanted to play baseball in college, I spent a lot of time educating myself about the college baseball recruiting process and shared the information here. However, there’s a big difference between playing college sports and receiving an athletic scholarship.

The College Baseball Spreadsheet

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0 shares Share0 Share +10 Tweet0 Pin0 Share0 Too Many Players Worry About Colleges Finding Them… What They Need is to Find the Colleges that Will Recruit Them! How to find the colleges that will recruit you to play baseballThe fundamental fact of college baseball recruiting is that you can’t be recruited if the coach … Read more

DIY College Rankings Softball Spreadsheet

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Use the College Spreadsheet to find the schools that will recruit you to play college softball The fundamental fact of college softball recruiting is that you can’t be recruited if the coach doesn’t know that you exist. Gone are the days of a player being spotted at their local high school game. Too many players worry about … Read more

5 Ways to Get Smart About College Baseball Recruiting

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As you start the college baseball recruiting process, you need to know what you don’t know. And sometimes it feels like you would rather not know than try to make sense of all of the information out there. Not only is there so much information out there, so much seems contradictory. Since the recruiting process … Read more

How to Get Recruited to Play College Baseball

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So your first question is what would a homeschool mom know about how to get recruited to play college baseball? Simple, it’s like everything else in homeschooling–once our son decided that he wanted to play baseball in college we realized that we would have to figure out the process ourselves. A lot of what we … Read more