The Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship Podcast with Brent Hanks

Today you get Part 1 of a 2 part interview with an ex-college baseball player and now a member of the Chicago White Sox organization. Shawn Goosenberg finished his summer with the Birmingham Barons, the Double A affiliate of the White Sox. Shawn moved from the Single A Winston-Salem team to the Birmingham team at the end of the season. Shawn was a teammate of my older son Parker at Northwestern University. Shawn and Parker were 2 of 7 recruits to the Wildcats. Shawn played 3 seasons at Northwestern before being drafted in 2021 in the 19th round. Shawn was a 2019 All-Big 10 Freshan Team selection and a 2019 All-Big 10 3rd Team selection. The 2020 season was cancelled due to COVID and Shawn was named 1st Team All-Big 10. He played 2B and Shortstop in college and excelled as 1 of the best hitters in the Big 10 conference.

This episode covers Shawn's background, when and how he started his recruiting journey, how his family, his high school coach and his club coach helped in his recruitment, how he did camps, showcases and tournaments and how he ended up at Northwestern.

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Welcome to Episode 379 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, The World's Longest Running Recruiting Education Podcast. This week I discuss The Fall Sports to Winter Sports Transition 2023. I will cover:

• What a Potential College Student-Athlete should be doing as a High School Freshman or Sophomore if you just finished you main sport's season
• What a Potential College Student-Athlete should be doing as a High School Freshman or Sophomore if you are going into your main sport's season
• What a Potential College Student-Athlete should be doing as a High School Junior or Senior if you just finished you main sport's season
• What a Potential College Student-Athlete should be doing as a High School Junior or Senior if you are going into your main sport's season

Check out the end of the episode for Section #8 of the Recruiting Checklist that is found in The Athletic Scholarship 24 Month Planner & Journal

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Anxiety and panic effects a majority of recruits and their families at some time during the journey. It could be caused by not knowing when or how to start the process. Or, that college coaches are not hanging out in the stands watching you, or, that you are not getting recruited by the college or the level of colleges you want to play for.

Back on October 22, 2019, Jon Fugler, the founder of Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, published Episode 168. Jon gives you 3 helpful strategies to curb some of the anxieties and panic that can creep into a recruits mind.

1. Have a plan and stick with it.
2. Don't let one-offs sway you.
3. Journal your sucesses.

Learn what Jon had to say and what I have to add to this review of this episode and these strategies for how to handle the inevitable feelings of anxiety and panic as you navigate your recruiting journey. Happy Halloween!

I came across EducatingAthletes.org, a 501C3, Non-Profit organization that helps direct potential student-athletes on all aspects of football recruiting and recruiting in general. The video I first saw was a young man in a Northwestern polo talking about their recruiting plan. This certainly caught my eye since my oldest son, Parker, played baseball for Northwestern from 2018 to 2022.

Listen to today's episode to learn a little about college football recruiting and to learn how this resource has videos that can help you on your journey.

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I decided to go back and find a past episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast that Jon Fuglar, the founder of Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, had published and give you a fresh look at a recruiting subject. Jon's wisdom about recruiting over the past 20 years has been very useful throughout the years and as you will hear it is useful today. Go to Recruit-Me.com to listen to all the past episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast or listen on your favorite podcast app.

Jon's Checkpoints are mainly for Juniors and Seniors in High School, but can be used for Junior College student-athletes looking for a 4 year school or for a college athlete wanting to transfer. Here are the 3 Recruiting Checkpoints: #1 Do You have a valid school list to pursue? #2 Do you have 10 college coaches pursing you? #3 Do you have at least 5 schools that are "right fit" possibilities?

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This episode, Episode 375, is the 2nd part of a 2 part series that covers 25 General Mistakes When Choosing a College. This series was taken from an article I found on the Collegebasics.com website. The article is named, 25 Common Mistakes in Choosing a College. This article listed common mistakes made by students when picking a college. These are mistakes if a decision is made based on only 1 of the common mistakes listed. This episode covers numbers 13 through 25 of the article. The Athletic Scholarship Podcast takes these individual mistakes and relates them to an athletic student-athlete and the episode also encourages you to combine multiple subjects to research and help you to make a "right fit" college decision.

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Episode 374 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is taken from the collegebasics.com website and a article called 25 Common Mistakes in Choosing a College. I was searching for common reasons to pick a college, but this article caught my eye. This episode covers the first 12 of the 25 Common Mistakes listed by collegebasics.com that a student makes if they just consider 1 or 2 subjects as reasons to go to a particular college. This, Part 1 of 2, takes the 12 mistakes and relates them to a student-athlete and some of the similiarities and differences that being a student-athlete can make.

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Today's episode comes from NCAA.org, NAIA.org and NJCAA.org websites. We walk through Recruiting Calendars. You do not have to memorize your sport or your preferred level of play's Recruiting Calendar, but by knowing where to find it and to know the basics about your sport's Recruiting Calendar you will save yourself some stress by knowing whether college coaches can contact you. Learn about Quiet Periods, Dead Periods, Evaluation Periods and Contact Periods. Learn how Recruiting Calendars help balance the recruiting process and how NCAA Division 1, Division 2, Division 3, NAIA and Junior Colleges direct college coaches to recruit you.

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Welcome to Episode 372 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This episode is review of the interview with Karl Barkley from D3Direct. I take out some of the key points the came out of episodes 370 and 371. Listen to this 14-plus minute episode and hear more about these key points:

• Earning minutes
• Setting parameters
• Using your recruiting resources
• Social Media positives and negatives for recruiting
• Using Email
• Advantages of Twitter/X
• When to start posting form recruiting on Social Media
• Post authenically
• D3 Schools can be affordable
• D3 Sports are competitive
• and more

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Episode 371 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is an interview with D3Direct's founder Karl Barkley. This is Part 2 of a 2 part interview that will introduce Karl, @D3Direct and the NCAA Division III level of college sports. Karl covers a social media gameplan, when to use social media, what to post on social media. The he covers positives of D3 sports and the different levels of D3 sports. Listen in to find out what D3Direct provides to you, the prospective college student-athlete and how to find D3Direct online.

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D3Direct Instagram

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