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Episode 238 is Part 2 of 2 to An Interview with Glenn Quick. Glenn is an Assistant Athletics Director and Academic and Career Counselor for Kansas University in Lawrence, Kansas. In Episode 237, Part 1 of the interview, Glenn gives us his background, what academic counselors do for an athletic program and how his professional life was changed as he attended college. This episode, Episode 238, covers a large amount of helpful information that will help you decide on a college and help to prepare you for college while you are still in high school and how not to get "Senioritis" in high school. He explains how an academic advisor helps a new college student-athlete in helping with choices of classes, balancing the athletic vs academic schedule and getting the student-athlete on track toward graduation. The Academic Advisor helps to balance classes, practice, games, training and travel. In this episode we get into some differences between high school and college. Click Here for Episode 238: Part 2 o 2 of an Interview with Glenn Quick. Glenn also dials in on a feature many universities have and that is Career Counseling. See some advantages a school can provide to a student-athlete with this department of their athletic program. Thank you to Glenn Quick for his time and valuable information. If anyone has any questions for Glenn, then email me at Brent@Recruit-Me.com. The end of this episode answers a question from the Q & A section of the Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System. Get the answer to this question from a parent. Question: Should we continue to send updates information to the entire list of schools that we have sent to or only those who have replied to us? Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System, only $127 FREE Power Pack  

This is Part 1 of an Interview with Glenn Quick.  Glenn is the Assistant Athletics Directory and an Academic and Career Counselor at Kansas University in Lawrence, Kansas.  In this episode we will find out what academic counselors do in general and how Glenn found his way into this area of athletic academic and career counseling. Hearing how, like many college students, your professional career may change as you take college courses and as you meet people throughout your college time.  This is a good lesson and an informational nugget that we get out of this interview.   I met Glenn in college at Missouri State back in the late 1980s.  I lost track of Glenn until we saw each other at the Missouri Valley Conference basketball tournament in St Louis in the mid 2000s.  We found out that our boys were the same age and that we both coached competitive baseball teams.  From there, we stayed in contact.  Glenn’s team came to Ozark to play in a wood bat tournament I put on and we saw each other and each other’s boys play throughout high school and summer ball.  Parker attended a Kansas baseball camp the summer after Parker’s sophomore year.   In this Part 1 of the interview, we, like I said earlier, find out what an academic counselor does on a college campus, when athletes meet with their academic counselors and in general how many times they meet a week. NCAA Guide for the College-Bound Student-Athlete NAIA Eligibility Center

If you know anything about the Real Estate business, then you know the most important thing is location, location, location.  Well, in the recruiting process location is important, but not the most important item.  It is many times not thought about as student-athletes and families look at and decide on a school.  The location of a college can positively or adversely affect a player's experience.  Being minutes from home, or 5 hours away or 15 hours away, are discussions a family needs to have throughout the recruiting process.  Relevant discussions and good discussions come from research.   This episode, Episode 236, tells you about the many questions you need to consider about location.  Our family, Parker, Sutton, Lori and I, all have examples of why location helped to make our college decisions or are going to help make a decision, in Sutton's case.  Lori, my wife, attended the University of Kentucky, and she knew she wanted to be away from home, but close enough to drive back home, a 4 hour drive.  She also had family very close to campus to help when she needed to be off campus, but not go home.  In this episode you hear how I considered the location in my college decision and how Parker's plan changed during his recruitment and how, again, Sutton is making his parameters known and how he is applying them to his school list.  Location will affect not only travel, but shopping, eating, entertainment and even down to laundry.  So let's get into location, location, location! Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System FREE Recruit-Me Power Pack CollegeCoachesOnline.com  RM123  

Episode 235 is called 3 Ways to Dig Into Recruiting Research.  The 3 ways covered are a deep dive into researching a team's or school's schedule, a team's roster and the team's coaches.  I will tell you how to do the research and why these 3 research items are important in your recruiting quest. I will walk you through a team's schedule and help you mine valuable information nuggets that will not only help you down the road, but help you now to build a list of schools to contact.  A team's conference and non-conference foes on the schedule gives you both team travel information and more school information on schools you may have never considered.  The travel opportunities were a part of Parker's decision to go to Northwestern University. The team's roster is a great way to analyze how you might fit into a program's plans.  See how the roster player's grade, size, stats and previous schools attended can paint a picture of your possible future at that school. Getting information on the coaches will help you  to formulate an introductory email that will get you attention from that school.   So learn how researching a team's schedule, roster and coaches' links can move you closer to the right college for you.  Listen at the end of the podcast as I continue the Q&A section, Appendix C of the Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System. Checkout the links below an listen to bonus audio from a Spfd, MO radio show that features Brent Hanks. Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System, Only $127 Recruit-Me Resources Recruit-Me FREE Power Pack Drury University Drury Baseball Schedule Brent@recruit-me.com 1st Hour of the "Sports Reporters" with Ned Reynolds 1/27/21: ESPN Radio Jock 96.9-99.9-1060 AM Springfield, MO: Recruit-Me Interview starts at the 9:00 min mark 2nd Hour of the "Sports Reporters" with Ned Reynolds 1/27/21: ESPN Radio Jock 96.9-99.9-1060 AM Springfield, MO: Interview with Brian Reynolds, Head Coach of Drury U Swimming 47:20-32:34 and Recruiting and Baseball training discussion by Brent Hanks, Recruit-Me and Brandon Mozley, Marucci Midwest Baseball        

Episode 234: Recruiting Can Be Like a Car's Gas Gauge was inspired by a 2+ hour drive to Columbia, Missouri I got to make to watch Sutton, my youngest son, play a high school basketball game.  I've always noticed how the gas needle on the gas gauge seems to stick to the full mark on the dash, but then it drops quicker than you expect when it get to one-quarter of a tank.  This is a great simulation of the recruiting process.  Listen to this episode to walk, I mean drive, through the tank of gas and the student-athletes recruiting journey.  Plus, you get an idea of what the drive from Ozark, Missouri to Columbia, Missouri is like.  Exciting! : ) Thank you for listening to The Athletic Scholarship Podcast and I invite you to listen to past episode for great, FREE recruiting education information.  Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to automatically get the podcast every Tuesday.  The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is listened to by 150-160 student-athletes and parents  weekly.  My goal is to get it up to 200+ listeners per episode.  I would like ask you to share this podcast with any student-athlete or parents that are going through or that are going to go through the recruiting process soon.  

I hope you had a chance to listen to Part 1 of 2, episode 232, An Interview with Paul Putt. Paul is a parent of 4 student-athletes. Last week's episode gives you the family's background and where all 4 kids are in their athletics and schools. We get into some great advice as Paul tells about his 2 oldest daughter's recruiting journeys and lessons the family learned. It is great to hear from someone that has been through not just one recruitment, but two. Part 2 of 2, episode 233, gets right into some great advice about making sure your student-athlete wants to play in college. Paul talks video, making a school list, how important it is for the student-athlete to be able to talk to coaches and the importance of academics. We get into the 3rd daughter's current recruitment and how club coaches are helping. The interview concludes as we discuss how being mentally and physically strong as you enter the freshman year of college is so important. Remember, if the student-athlete is going to a 4 year college, they will be competing against 21, 22 year old men and women. I want to thank Paul for all the helpful information he has passed on in these two episodes, episode 232 and 233. Please email me, brent@recruit-me.com, if you have any questions for me or Paul. Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System FREE Recruiting Power Pack Brent@recruit-me.com

Episode 232 brings you an interview with Paul Putt. Paul and Christy are parents of 4 student-athletes. Mikayla, the oldest daughter, played 2 years of D2 soccer and basketball and is now finishing college as a student in Colorado. Macey is currently playing volleyball at Arkansas State University in the Sun Belt Conference. Moriah is a high school junior and is in the recruiting process to basketball. Merek is their 6th grade son and is working on many sport right now. Paul and Christy both played sports in college at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, MO. Christy played basketball and Paul played baseball. Paul is currently an Athletic Trainer and Strenghth Coach and is the Director of Fitness and Wellness at Hickory Hill Country Club in Springfield, MO. You will walk through this family's recruiting adventures with the two oldest daughters in this episode, Part 1 of 2. We talk about reaching out to coaches, advice from a college coach, camp and video advice, how a lesson was learned from an email mistake, picking the right school and the hard conversation with your student-athlete about their commitment to playing a sport in college. This episode and next week's episode are great examples of how talking to families that have been through the recruitment process is so very valuable. Get some time stress saving tips from episode 232 and next week's episode 233. Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Scholarship System FREE Recruiting Power Pack

Episode 231 breaks us into 2021.  This episode, Polar Express Inspired Recruiting, is inspired by a Christmas break, COVID induced TV binge watching.  During the break our family had time to watch the movie, Polar Express.  There is a quote that made me think of recruiting.  Listen to this episode to find out the quote and how it impacts your recruiting journey. Email me the quote from this episode, brent@recruit-me.com, and enter for a drawing for 1 of the 2 books written by Jon Fugler, the founder of Recruit-Me.  The books are The Athletic Scholarship Playbook and The Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Planner and Journal.  I will give away 2 of each of these books from a drawing of emails I receive.  The drawing will be January 13th.   Recruit-Me.com Books Recruit-Me.com/system FREE Recruit-Me Power Pack Brent@Recruit-Me.com  

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and you are ready for the New Year.  I also hope Recruit-Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast has helped you and your family in your recruiting journey.  I would like to ask a couple of favors for 2021.  One is, please share The Athletic Scholarship Podcast with another family or 2 that will start in the recruiting process or is in the recruiting process.  The second, is to reach out to me by email, brent@recruit-me.com, or by writing a review on your favorite podcast app.  This year-ending podcast, Episode 230, is a 2020 Review of all the podcasts I have done since becoming the owner and CEO of Recruit-Me.  So starting with Episode 203 on June 23rd and going through Episode 229 on December 22nd, I briefly list the main points of each of the episodes.  The goal of this 2020 Review is to give you a reference that can help you find a subject that will help you as you go through your recruiting journey.  Subjects like what to do each year of your high school years, tips during COVID, definitions of various recruiting terms and a listing of all the possible scholarship opportunities.  There are interviews with a current college athlete, a former college athlete, a mindset mentor, a D1 college golf coach and a parent of a D1 soccer player.  Thank you for listening this year.  If you have not signed up for the FREE Recruiting Power Pack, then go to Recruit-Me.com to sign up or take advantage of the 2 great books that Jon Fugler wrote, The Athletic Scholarship Playbook and The Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Planner and Journal.  You can find out more information on Recruit-Me.com/tools.  If you have not take advantage of the Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System and the special new CEO price of only $99, please click on Recruit-Me.com/system.  This offer ends 12/31/2020.   Happy New Year!

Bringing in Jon Fugler for an interview makes for an information-packed and fast moving episode.  Episode 229, features Jon Fugler, the founder and former CEO of Recruit-Me.  I wanted to have Jon on to catch up and let you know some of Jon's inspiration for starting Recruit-Me, a recruiting education system.  he started Recruit-Me in 2012, after his twin sons played baseball for Air Force.   Listen in to see what Jon and his family have been doing since June and as he shares some of the basics of the recruiting process that worked for his family, thousands of families over the last 18 years and basics that will work for you today.  We hit topics like parental involvement, student-athlete involvement, the effects of COVID, the basics of contacting coaches, setting goals and game planning, and how making a college school list as a freshman and sophomore will lead to great results as a junior or senior.  Jon helps set the tone that Christmas break is a wonderful time to charge forward with your recruiting process.  Charge forward in 2021.  Take this 20 minutes to learn and re-charge yourselves for the upcoming new year.  Please listen and learn, plus share this episode and any of your favorite past episodes with a student-athlete or a family of a student-athlete that is in the recruiting process.  Next week will a year in review for 2020 and gives you a short refresher on each episode since June 2020. Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me.com/system Recruit-Me.com/tools Brent@Recruit-Me.com  7:23- 7:54 Comments about Parental Involvement 10:13 - 10:44 Let Coaches Know Your Interested 12:20 - 12:39 Take the Initiative and Get Out of the Starting Blocks 18:35 - 19:01 Recruiting is Year Round 19:38 - 20:05 Firsthand Advice    

The Christmas break is a great time cook up a college list.  It does not matter if you are a freshman or sophomore and are just getting started in the recruiting game or if you are a junior or senior needing to attention fast.  A college list is essential.  This episode, 228, is chalked full of great ingredients to help you "cook up" a great list.  This episode, A Recipe for Your College List; Ingredients Included, gives you the resources, I mean ingredients, to mix it all together.  So take 15 minutes to learn how you can use the holidays to get you going.  Also, you will hear Myth #8 of 10 about Athletic Scholarships.  Check out the links below for easy and free resources, oops, ingredients for you list.  Merry Christmas! Recruit-Me.com univsearch.com unigo.com/colleges/by-state collegedegree.com/allcolleges collegecoachesonline.com D1baseball.com NCAA.org NAIA.org NJCAA.org brent@recruit-me.com

Episode 227 covers 3 integrated topics that will take your recruitment to a higher level.  Visualization can propel, not only, your athletic performance, but also, your recruitment journey.  It may be easy to SEE how visualization can help you to play better, but how does it help in recruiting?  Well, that is where setting goals and planning comes into play.  Writing down goals, both long term and short term, helps you to chart out starting strategies and deadlines.  This 15 minutes is chalked full of stories and examples of visualization, goal setting and planning advice.  See how the Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal written by Jon Fugler, can help super-charge your recruiting progress. Recruit-Me.com/tools Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal PaigeTonz.com brent@recruit-me.com Recruit-Me.com/system    

In episodes 223 and 224, the interviews with Kevin Easley, a college athlete's father, we got some great information from a family that went through the recruiting process and is go through the recruiting process with their high school age son.  One of the many, many tidbits from the Easley interviews was that the family started looking up recruiting rules on NCAA.org.  Learning NCAA rules helped them to understand some recruiting lingo and helped them to understand why coaches did things certain ways.  From this advice this episode is going to cover Unofficial Visits.  Episode 226 will cover the rules for Unofficial Visits on travel, lodging, entertainment and the number of visits allowed.  You will also get a look into my own family's experiences on visits.  Don't forget about Myth #6 of Athletic Scholarships, that are found in the Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarships System. NCAA.org Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarships System NCAA Recruiting Calendars brent@recruit-me.com

In episodes 223 and 224, the interviews with Kevin Easley, a college athlete's father, we got some great information from a family that went through the recruiting process and is go through the recruiting process with their high school age son.  One of the many, many tidbits from the Easley interviews was that the family started looking up recruiting rules on NCAA.org.  Learning NCAA rules helped them to understand some recruiting lingo and helped them to understand why coaches did things certain ways.  From this advice this episode is going to cover Official Visits.  Episode 225 will cover the rules for Official Visits on travel, lodging, entertainment and the number of visits allowed.  You will also get a look into my own family's experiences on visits.  Don't forget about Myth #5 of Athletic Scholarships, that are found in the Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarships System. NCAA.org Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarships System NCAA Recruiting Calendars brent@recruit-me.com

Episode 224 is Part 2 of 2 from an interview with Kevin Easley. Kevin is the father of a D1 soccer player, a junior in high school that is in the recruiting process now and a up and coming 6th grader. Kevin's daughter, Jadyn, plays soccer for the University of Missouri. Part 1, episode 223, was a loaded episode, full of great advice and insight into Jadyn's early recruitment. It compares her recruitment between high school and club soccer. This episode, Part 2, reveals information about official and unofficial visits, what the Easley family did first to prepare for the recruitment process and what Kevin feels was the best tool that soccer players can use to help get recruited. He also found one of the most important questions a student-athlete should ask themselves before they make that school choice and her learned it from his 15 year old daughter. Also, Myth #5 of the 8 Myths about Athletic Scholarships is revealed. All 8 myths are found in the Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System found on Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System, Special Price $99 Free Recruit-Me Recruiting Power Pack The Athletic Scholarship Playbook The Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal Brent@recruit-me.com  

Episode 223 is Part 1 of 2 parts from an interview with Kevin Easley.  Kevin is the father of a D1 soccer player, a junior in high school that is getting recruited for soccer or football and a up and comer that is in 6th grade.  Kevin's daughter, Jadyn, plays soccer for the University of Missouri.  In Part 1 we cover how and when Jadyn's recruitment started, some benefits of playing in college, some differences between high school and club recruiting, differences between boy's and girl's recruitment and how Jadyn handled contacts and recruiting.  Learn about soccer specifics in recruiting and some general recruiting advice.  Both episodes 223 and 224 are filled with helpful information. Jadyn Easley, University of Missouri Soccer  Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System

Episode 222 promotes the free Recruiting Power Pack offered by Recruit-Me on Recruit-Me.com.  Not only does it shamefully promote it, but it gives you some great tips on recruiting to get you started.  Really, you may not even need to sign up for the free Recruiting Power Pack, it has so much information.  But, you really should sign up for the free Recruiting Power Pack, because it is FREE, and the episode does not give you all the information in the free Recruiting Power Pack.  You will get details on the 4 First Steps to an Athletic Scholarship.  Step #1 The Introductory Email Step #2 Creating a Player Profile or Resume Step #3 Complete Player Questionnaires Effectively Step #4 Keeping Coaches Interested No matter where you are in the recruiting process, you will get something out of this 13 minute episode.   The Athletic Scholarship Podcast has its first sponsor, Cody Hanks, with Southwest Missouri Realty.  Contact Cody at 417-860-9160 or codyhanks@swmrealty.com. Also, catch Myth #2 of 8 About Athletic Scholarships

This episode, 221, You Can "Manage" Your Way Through College, reflects on my college experience as a student-manager for the Southwest Missouri State Bears Men's Basketball team, now Missouri State.  I reference episode 219 and go into more detail of the different, but perfect way I got to experience college athletics.  I want to give high school student-athletes an alternative to playing their sport.  Hopefully, through Recruit-Me, a college playing position is possible, but there could be a circumstance that directs you to another path.  If you want to stay around your sport and get the great experience of being on a team, then a student-manager is a great possibility.  Just like playing, a manager has to balance the team's schedule and his or her academics.  A manager get many perks.  Travel, food, gear, meeting people and inside access to the coaches and players are just a few.  Cody Hanks 417-860-9160 codyhanks@swmrealty.com Missouri State Bears

Episode 220 is an interview with Myles Mensah.  Myles is the host of the Student-Athlete Combo Podcast and he is recent college graduate from Hofstra University in New York.  Myles played baseball for 4 years at Hofstra. Student-Athlete Combo is a podcast for aspiring student athletes, current student athletes, and parents to get insight on how to get the most out of their academic experience.  Student-athletes can have demanding schedules, but that doesn’t mean that you cannot score in the classroom also.  Myles and the Student-Athlete Combo will give advice, stories, and interviews with audiences to help them succeed before, during, and after your student-athlete experience. Student-Athlete Combo Podcast & Website Instagram @_sacombo Facebook facebook.com/studentathletecombo Twitter @_sacombo Brent@recruit-me.com

It's story time!  Listen to stories about the adventures high school and college sports can take you to.  Sometimes we wonder if all the fuss of sports is worth it.  This podcast has some "pick-me-up" stories to energize your journey. Brent@recruit-me.com Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me.com/system Recruit-Me.com/tools