How to Contact College Coaches
Emailing College Coaches With Essential Data
Contacting college coaches can be an intimidating task. Sending the first email to a high program is a significant action if you desire to play collegiate sports. The first email is the first step to getting your foot in the door and giving the collegiate coach he opportunity evaluate your physical characteristics such as height, weight, and size, second, it provides the collegiate program the chance to analyze your statistical on the field performance data, third they can evaluate your academic information and lastly they can start the process of evaluating if you are a right fit for the program.
Coaches are now getting thousands of requests from possible recruits. These requests come in the form of emails, tweets, and whatever means players have access to. Not all are appropriate for the first contact, but parents and recruits don’t know the proper methodology, so they are left to their imagination.
Before you decided to email potential college coaches, you must first do your research and assess which possible programs are a good fit socially, academically, and athletically. Once you identify programs that are a good fit, you will then make a list.
9 Tips for Emailing a College Coach
Be Clear, Simple and Direct
Emails are an excellent resource to interact with a coach, but you must send each email with clear intent, purpose, and message. You must provide the college coach with valuable data, make yourself stand out while being short and to the point. Here is a “How to Email College Coaches” checklist.
Here is a checklist for your email:
- Clear introduction
- Show High Interest
- Highlight your sport, name and best traits
- Include Club, High School or AAU Team
- Athletic Information Position,
- Highlight Most prestigious award
- List your statistics in the best format. (For example, if you only had 400 yards rushing, this may not be good. But if you had 400 yeards rushing with a 9.0 yards per rush. Highlight the yards per rush instead of total yards)
- Academic Information including GPA, Grad Year, ACT score, SAT Score
- Be clear, concise and direct about why you are interested in their program
- List performance schedule
- Do they have any feedback for you?
- Ask if there any other upcoming events they will be attending?
Provide College Coaches With Video and Relevant Social Media Links
Let me be clear. Before providing links, be sure that you are representing yourself in the most professional manner you can. Stay away from music or videos that include nudity, derogatory language, controversial political content, and other information that may be interpreted as unfavorable. Again you never know who is watching your videos and your content. If you want to represent yourself as an athlete focusing on the necessary skills that will give evaluators the best possible outlook. We as a company, be in social justice but others may not have our perspective. So be mindful of this.
You must do your research
Go to the NCAA website and gather all of the contacts for your specific sport. There are thousands of collegiate programs that you can contact. Emailing every collegiate sports school may seem like a great idea, but not every collegiate sporting program will be an excellent fit for you athletically, academically, or socially. You must understand which schools are the best fit for you.
- Research the following topics regarding your school of interest
- Does the college athletic program offer academic studies of your interest?
- How many student-athletes do they have in your position currently on the team?
- Can you attend any sports camps at the school in the summer?
- What is the academic, athletic and cultural history of the college athletic program
- Are there student-athletes from your high school, city, club team, or area on the college team?
- Is it possible to get additional scholarship money from the school based on academics or culture?
Provide College Coaches the right email address, phone number, and home address
Be 100% sure that you provide the correct email, phone number, and home address. You do not want to create interest in your profile and then have the coach respond to a wrong email. This happens often. There is nothing wrong with providing alternative email addresses and phone numbers just for emergencies. You want to provide every means possible for a coach to contact you.
Make it personal
Make the email particular. Try to contact a specific coach or assistant coach that you connect with. Talk about something specif that the coach does or the team does that draws your interest and appreciation. Do be shy; this is an opportunity for you to create a lasting impression and make an incredible first interaction. You can talk about the teams’ defense, a particular game that made you want to play for the program, or that you were inspired by the coaches teaching style and coaching ideology.
Make sure you do not get an ERROR return email
The most common mistake is sending an email to a college coach and sending it to the wrong address or incorrect address. Be sure that your email is confirmed at the very least check your email to make sure that you did not get a “Return Sender, Wrong Address” message in your inbox.
Email address is best found on the collegiate team’s website under the coaches section. This is the best way to ensure and guarantee that the email address you have for the coach is correct. I do not recommend copying email addresses from books or thrid party websites because those resources may not be up today. It is favorable to play it safe and go to the collegiate sports website and copy the email from there website. Most collegiate websites will end in .edu.
Provide a Plan of Success
At the end of your “How to Email College Coaches,” email, provide a simple plan of success for your athletic career. Provide some insight into your athletic, academic, and life goals.
Let the college coach know what you will do next regarding your athletic, personal, and career.
Learn about basketball recruiting, soccer recruiting and football recruiting.
Follow up
Follow up every email and contact a coach with a subsequent phone call, text, or additional contact email to make sure the coach has received your data.
Edit You Email
Lastly, you must edit your email. Edit it again. Edit it again and again. Perfection is necessary. Use your spell check, grammar check, and read it out loud to your family or closest friends. Reading your writing out loud is the best way to hear and catch weird errors, wording, or grammar.
Sample email 1—Athletic-focused email
Dear Coach,
I have been a student in your program for some time.
I am impressed with your consistency, not only the winning percentage but also the number of players that graduate with degrees from your application.
You are one of my favorite college coaches so I wanted to reach you because I know I am a great fit for your program, and I would like to be considered for your upcoming full scholarship offers.
My name is “Billy Bad AsK,” and here are my athletic, academic measurables.
Athletic:
- Height
- Weight
- Speed
Academic
- SAT
- ACT
- GPA
Other Information
- Class of 2020
- Senior | Cornerback
- Big Time High School in Dallas, TX
- Video: www.youtube.com
- Phone Number:
- Social Media
I will be competing in football, basketball, and track during the next athletic season, and I would appreciate it if you would come out to watch me.
Signed,
Billy Bad Ask
How do you email college coaches?
Keep it clear, concise and personal Don't ask questions that can be easily found online Include your physical and athletic measurables Include your GPA Lastly include SAT, ACT scores
How do you write a formal email?
Subject line. Be specific, but concise Salutation. Address the recipient by name, if possible Body text Signature. Your email closing should be formal.
Should I include my other schools of interest when contacting coaches?
No, Keep it about the school you are writing and why you are interested in attending.
How do you start an email?
Hello, Good Day, Greetings, Hi Everyone