The Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship Podcast with Brent Hanks

Welcome to Episode 360 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This week's episode, What to Do Your Freshman Year of High School, is the 1st in a 4 part series that gives you items to do each year of your high school career. There are 2 answers to the question of when to start your recruitment and one is as you enter your freshman year of high school and then if you are already in high school, the answer is today. Recruit Me likes to start talking to student-athletes and their family as the student-athlete enters his or her high school career. Because grades, the types of classes you take and your education about recruiting start your freshman year, then you can build a foundation to a strong recruiting campaign. Listen in to hear the steps you can take your freshman year of high school to get you started and ready for the ever quickening upperclass years of high school.

Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.

Recruit-Me.com

Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System

FREE Recruiting Power Pack

QRRecruiter.com promo code RecruitMe5

CollegeCoachesOnline.com promo code RM123

Listen to Past Episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast

Baseball Bluebook

Welcome to Episode 359 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This episode is a celebration of the 3 year anniversary of me, Brent Hanks, becoming the owner/CEO of Recruit Me and the host of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. In June of 2020 I purchased Recruit Me from its founder, Jon Fuglar. I have had a great time bringing recruiting education to student-athletes and families.

This episode is a review of the top 10 listened to episodes since June of 2020. Here are the top 10 I will review in this episode:

1. Episode 226 Unofficial Visits
2. Episode 272 3 Hard Things for a 16 Year Old To Do
3. Episode 218 Recruiting Definitions
4. Episode 207 The Recruiting Process, Your Freshman Year
5. Episode 270 Dollars, Dollars, Dollars
6. Episode 268 Hey, High Schooler, Do You Want to Play in College?
7. Episode 293 17 Frequently Asked Questions About Recruiting
8. Episode 291 Part 1 of 2 of An Interview with the Givens Family
9. Episode 273 Part 1 of 2 of An Interview with Randy Merryman
10. Episode 209 The Recruiting Process, Your Junior Year

I give little tidbits from each episode and invite you to listen or re-listen to each episode. Thank you for a great 3 years and I am look forward to many more.

Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.

Recruit-Me.com

Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System

FREE Recruiting Power Pack

QRRecruiter.com promo code RecruitMe5

CollegeCoachesOnline.com promo code RM123

Listen to Past Episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast

Baseball Bluebook

This week's episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, Episode 358, gives you insight on 4 different social posts that I found. One of the posts stresses that is 'up to you' to get recruited. The next post directs you to contact college coaches before you go to ID Camps, Prospect Camps or Tournaments. Separate yourself from all the other possible recruits. The 3rd post tells you about the frustration of a coach when student-athletes visit their campus and don't ask questions while on their visit. And the last post points out that it is an honor that playing a college sport at any level is.

Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.

Recruit-Me.com

Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System

FREE Recruiting Power Pack

QRRecruiter.com promo code RecruitMe5

CollegeCoachesOnline.com promo code RM123

Listen to Past Episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast

Baseball Bluebook

Summer is here! As the high school year ends, let's use the summer months to move your recruitment forward. In Episode 357 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast I give you 6 items that you need to do this summer. You may be able to do all 6 or just some of them. Listen to this episode to listen to all 6 items. These are not in any particular order of importance.

1. Contact college coaches
2. Send Videos
3. Follow-up with college coaches
4. Ask college coaches if they have an on-campus ID or Prospect Camp
5. Take campus tours; Official, Unofficial and Drive-Thrus
6. Listen to every episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast and use all of the Recruit Me resources

Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.

Recruit-Me.com

Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System

FREE Recruiting Power Pack

QRRecruiter.com promo code RecruitMe5

CollegeCoachesOnline.com promo code RM123

Listen to Past Episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast

Baseball Bluebook

Episode 356 is an Interview with Coach Barry Hinson from Oklahoma State University. Coach Hinson has been on The Athletic Scholarship Podcast as a guest before, Episodes 239 and 240 as he was on the Oklahoma State Cowboys Men's Basketball staff. Recently, Coach Hinson moved to be the Associate Athletic Director and OSU's 1st Director of NIL; Name, Image and Likeness. Barry helps us learn about how NIL has entered the scene in college sports. He tells how as he learned about NIL it pushed him to start helping the over 500 Cowboy student-athletes on campus. Coach Hinson talks about the big money deals you hear about in the media, but he also highlight how any student-athlete, in college and in high school, can work to make money as they play their sport.

This is episode is a little longer than the normail 15 minutes The Athletic Scholarship Podcast normally covers, but Barry's information about NIL, recruiting and general sports is worth the extra 10 minutes.

Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.

Recruit-Me.com

Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System

FREE Recruiting Power Pack

QRRecruiter.com promo code RecruitMe5

CollegeCoachesOnline.com promo code RM123

Listen to Past Episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast

Baseball Bluebook

Barry Hinson, Oklahoma State University Associate Athletic Director and Director of NIL

Episode 355 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is A Review of the Interview with a College Basketball Coach; Randy Stange. This episode pulls out a few key points of the interview with Coach Randy Stange. Coach Stange is the Head Basketball Coach at Sterling College in Sterling, KS. Sterling College is an NAIA level basketball team and Coach Stange just finished his 1st year as the Head Coach. Coach Stange did an interview for The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, Episodes 352 & 353 and we covered many subjects including Coach Stange's playing and coaching past. In this week's episode I grab some key points that we were not able to expand on during the interview. I'll hit on Randy's learning experience from not playing much his freshman year of Junior College and ask you how you will handle that situation. A point I bring up is how research about the colleges you contact and finally make a decision on needs to be researched and compared to your parameters list of wants and needs for a athletic and academic experience. I asked Coach Stange how a player wanting to be recruited would get his attention and Coach Stange gives you insight to how he looks at a player's video and how a high school coach's and a club coach's style and input lends weight to a recruit. Listen in to gain recruiting advice for not only basketball, but for any sport you are interested in.

Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.

Recruit-Me.com

Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System

FREE Recruiting Power Pack

QRRecruiter.com promo code RecruitMe5

CollegeCoachesOnline.com promo code RM123

Listen to Past Episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast

Baseball Bluebook

This episode, Episode 354 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, dives into how AI, Artificial Intelligence can help you in your recruitment. I downloaded an inexpensive AI App and asked, What is the best way to get recruited by any college coach? It was interesting to watch the AI App spit out it's steps to effectively get recruited. Well, the steps were not Ask AI's orginal thoughts. The steps to get recruited were gathered as the Ask AI App scanned the internet and accumulated the best practices from 1000s of sites. Since Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast are 2 the longest running recruiting education resources out there, I was proud to know that Ask AI mirrored the Recruit Me 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship very closely.

Listen in to hear the steps that Ask AI, Recruit Me, Keep Playing Baseball, NCSA and IvyWise all give you as free and inexpensive resources for recruiting.

Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.

Recruit-Me.com

Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System

FREE Recruiting Power Pack

QRRecruiter.com promo code RecruitMe5

CollegeCoachesOnline.com promo code RM123

Listen to Past Episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast

Baseball Bluebook

Welcome to Episode 353 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This episode is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Coach Randy Stange, the Men's Head Basketball Coach of the Sterling College Warriors. Randy played Junior College basketball at Hutchinson Community College and NCAA Division I basketball at Southwest Missouri State University, now Missouri State University. Randy and I met after his college playing days and he was a coach for the team and I was a student-manager for the Bears. You will hear him refer to me as "Manage" as that was my nickname as I did my managing duties along with the opportunity to play on the JV team and practice with the team daily.

Hear about Sterling College and about what Coach Stange looks for when recruits contact him.

Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.

Recruit-Me.com

Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System

FREE Recruiting Power Pack

QRRecruiter.com promo code RecruitMe5

CollegeCoachesOnline.com promo code RM123

Listen to Past Episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast

Sterling College Basketball

Randy Stange, Head Men's Basketball Coach at Sterling College

Welcome to Episode 352 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This episode is Part 1 of a 2 part interview with Coach Randy Stange, the Men's Head Basketball Coach of the Sterling College Warriors. Randy played Junior College basketball at Hutchinson Community College and NCAA Division I basketball at Southwest Missouri State University, now Missouri State University. Randy and I met after his college playing days and he was a coach for the team and I was a student-manager for the Bears. You will hear him refer to me as "Manage" as that was my nickname as I did my managing duties along with the opportunity to play on the JV team and practice with the team daily.

Hear about Randy's playing and coaching career and about the opportunities that his college playing days set him up for during his post-college career. We also start to get into Sterling College and will continue to talk about college advantages and recruiting advice in next week's, Part 2 of 2 of the interview.

Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.

Recruit-Me.com

Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System

FREE Recruiting Power Pack

QRRecruiter.com promo code RecruitMe5

CollegeCoachesOnline.com promo code RM123

Listen to Past Episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast

Sterling College Basketball

Randy Stange, Head Men's Basketball Coach at Sterling College

Here is the 2nd part to the Recruit Me Dynamic Duo of resources for you to make a great first impression as you contact college coaches. Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast teaches you, the student-athlete, the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship. Step 1 is Contacting the Right Schools and that is a big step that takes some time and researching and sole searching. Then, Step 2 is Writing a Great Introductory Email so you can make an impressive "handshake" with a college coach. The 2nd half of the Making a Great First Impression Duo is what I cover in today's episode. Step 3, Building Your 1-Page Player Profile. These two documents work together make you standout from other recruits as you pursue a spot on a team and a scholarship from colleges.

In this 15 minute episode I cover what to include in your 1-page, 10 section, resume-like document. The Player Profile is a difference maker to get you on the radar of a college coach. Listen today and then go to Recruit-Me.com and sign up for the FREE Recruiting Power Pack that includes a free template of your Player Profile.

Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.

Recruit-Me.com

Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System

FREE Recruiting Power Pack

QRRecruiter.com promo code RecruitMe5

CollegeCoachesOnline.com promo code RM123

Listen to Past Episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast

The Baseball Bluebook

NCAA Recruiting Calendars