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General
Softball Recruiting Advice:
NCAA
Softball: Where do You Best Fit In?
Other
College Recruiting & Athletic Scholarship Articles from the
beRecruited.com Network:
Junior Year & Earlier in High School
Senior Year in High School
The Big Trip: College Recruiting Trips
What College Coaches Want
Narrowing the List of Colleges
Marketing Yourself to College Recruiters
Choosing the Right College and University
The Lowdown on College Loans
6 Steps of Financial Aid
With Honors: AP & Honors Courses
Back to School
General Softball Recruiting Advice:
NCAA Softball: Where do You Best Fit In?
The
simplest recruiting advice: study and understand your specific sport on
a high school and a collegiate / NCAA level. High school softball is
unique from high school football – and as a “non-revenue” NCAA sport, it
certainly differs from NCAA football and basketball.
College softball recruiting is as competitive (and can often be more
competitive) than football or basketball recruiting.
The key to improving your college recruiting and scholarship chances is
being informed. Understand the landscape of your sport on a high school
and NCAA level and begin to understand where you fit within that
landscape. Do you fit in best in Division I, II, or III softball? And
how do your athletic goals fit within that? Do you have strong
geographic preferences and how will that impact your college choices?
As you begin to develop and mature academically and athletically,
consider your current skill-sets and where you intend to be as a
high-school graduate and as a college-graduate. Understanding your
personal, athletic, and academic interests and skills is crucially
important as you enter the college recruiting process.
Begin collecting information and data about universities, teams, and
coaches as early as you can because this is an integral step in setting
the academic, athletic and collegiate goals that will guide you through
the college recruiting process.
You can find complete softball statistcs for division I, II, and III
softball online at
http://www.ncaasports.com/softball/womens/stats. How do those stats
compare to yours? What do you need to improve to match statistics and
what are the various team's strengths and weaknesses?
While determining which teams might be good fits for your abilities and
talents, study the conferences and division layouts. Polls / rankings
are published during and after the seasons -- these polls are excellent
ways to study the landscape of NCAA softball. Take a look at final
2003-2004 division I softball rankings:
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The USA
Today/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division I Top 25
is voted on by 25 NCAA Division I head coaches representing
different conferences. Records are Final. First place votes are
in parentheses. |
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Rank |
Team |
Record |
Pts |
Pvs |
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1 |
UCLA (25) |
46-9 |
625 |
5 |
|
2 |
California |
53-13 |
599 |
2 |
|
3 |
LSU |
57-12 |
570 |
3 |
|
4 |
Stanford |
49-19 |
544 |
8 |
|
5 |
Florida State |
62-12 |
518 |
4 |
|
6 |
Oklahoma |
45-22-1 |
491 |
21 |
|
7 |
Washington |
40-19 |
466 |
7 |
|
8 |
Arizona |
55-6 |
451 |
1 |
|
9 |
Michigan |
54-13 |
427 |
6 |
|
10 |
Louisiana-Lafayette |
60-8 |
383 |
9 |
|
11 |
Georgia |
55-17 |
362 |
10 |
|
12 |
Oregon |
42-21 |
347 |
13 |
|
13 |
Alabama |
45-20 |
335 |
15 |
|
14 |
Nebraska |
45-17 |
314 |
14 |
|
15 |
Oregon State |
44-28 |
266 |
20 |
|
16 |
South Florida |
60-14 |
212 |
17 |
|
17 |
Illinois |
45-21-1 |
196 |
NR |
|
18 |
Tennessee |
55-16 |
182 |
11 |
|
19 |
Baylor |
48-17 |
163 |
19 |
|
19 |
Long Beach
State |
51-13 |
163 |
18 |
|
21 |
Hofstra |
38-20 |
113 |
NR |
|
22 |
Georgia Tech |
47-19 |
89 |
NR |
|
23 |
Auburn |
42-18 |
80 |
12 |
|
24 |
Southern
Illinois |
45-17 |
52 |
NR |
|
25 |
Fresno State |
48-20 |
48 |
16 |
Others
receiving votes:
Florida Atlantic 32, Texas A&M 21, Northwestern 14, Florida
14, Notre Dame 13, Creighton 11, Illinois-Chicago 10, Pacific
10, Michigan State 8, Tulsa 6, Seton Hall 2. |
Dropped out:
No. 22 Texas A&M, No. 23 Florida, No. 24 Notre Dame, No. 25
Tulsa. |
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Visit university websites and team sites and form a foundation of
academic and athletic information. You can access 1,000s of sites instantly
by registering with
beRecruited.com or manually by visiting NCAA.org.
Most importantly, start considering your academic and athletic goals
early in your high school career. Too many high school athletes start
the college recruiting process late in their junior years or early in
their senior years. This is simply too late. Take action early – you
will be more informed, better prepared, and better organized when senior
year begins. You train, practice and prepare for months and years before
a major athletic competition; and you shouldn’t treat this any
differently.
Read the series of articles published by the beRecruited.com Network as
they provide a detailed guide for your high school career that will
improve your chances of being recruited and earning a NCAA softball
scholarship:
Junior Year & Earlier in High School
Senior Year in High School
The Big Trip: College Recruiting Trips
What College Coaches Want
Narrowing the List of Colleges
Marketing Yourself to College Recruiters
Choosing the Right College and University
The Lowdown on College Loans
6 Steps of Financial Aid
With Honors: AP & Honors Courses
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