Now that you have found beRecruited.com, the most common questions from high school athletes and their parents is how to best utilize the resources availble through the service. The Coach is here to provide you with a few tips:

1) Keep your profile updated: We have more than 9,000 college coaches who have registered for the site, and hundreds of college coaches every month. It’s important to keep the athletic and academic information in your profile as up-to-date as possible. Coaches use our service because it’s an efficient way to find athletes that meet the criteria of a particular program. You create the criteria with your profile.

2) Bookmark schools that interest you: By bookmarking a school, you notify any registered coach with our service that you are interested in that program.

3) College Profiles: Use our Colleges area of the site to search for colleges that fit the criteria that is important to you. We have recently updated and upgraded the information in this area, and have proactively asked our coaches to review the information about their particular schools. beRecruited registered athletes have often cited this area of the site as the most helpful in their process.

If you focus your initial efforts in these three areas, our history shows that beRecruited will be an effective tool for you.

The Coach

As either a high school athlete or the parent of a high school athlete who aspires to play for a collegiate program, it is extremely important to know and understand the steps that need to be taken to make sure that the athlete is eligible by NCAA Standards.

The Coach suggests that athletes and parents spend a little bit of time looking at the portion of the be Recruited Advice area focused on NCAA eligibility information. This information is also available on the right side of the Advice home page.

This year, the NCAA has decided to move what used to be called the NCAA Clearing House to Indianapolis, and it is now called the NCAA Eligibility Center. After looking through the information, if an athlete or parent has any further questions regarding academic or amateurism eligibility issues, they should contact the NCAA Elgibility Center. The contact information is:

NCAA Eligibility Center
Certifications Processing
P.O. Box 7136
Indianapolis, IN 46207-7136

Package or overnight delivery:
1802 Alonzo Watford Sr. Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Web address: www.ncaaclearinghouse.org

Eligibility center customer service
Representatives are available from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.,Eastern time, Monday through Friday.
U.S. callers (toll free): 877/262-1492
International callers: 317/223-0700
Fax: 317/968-5100

Welcome to beRecruited’s Advice section. We’ll bring information and advice on the recruiting process, college admissions, scholarships and a host of answers to other questions many student athletes have about applying to college. We’ll also regularly provide tips and pointers on how athletes, parents, high school coaches and college coaches can best utilize beRecruited, the largest online marketplace for collegiate recruiting in the world. beRecruited serves two audiences particularly well:

• High school athletes and their parents looking for collegiate athletic opportunities;
• College coaches looking for athletes that fit the academic and athletic requirements for their particular program.

There is an intricate technical infrastructure that facilitiates these connections. More than 6,000 connections between athletes and coaches happen daily. As part of our service is to help athletes, their parents and coaches understand the process. Our goal is to bring about much-needed efficiencies to the recruiting process.

This area will bring our registered users information resources, news, tips and other things designed to help with the process. We’ll encourage users to submit questions or suggestions of topics of interest by clicking here (or some type of “Submit Questions” button on the page). Please feel free to check back frequently or subscribe to this blog to get notified when we update this area.There are several things we want to stress about beRecruited:

• More than 90 percent of our service is free, which makes it a true, open marketplace for athletes and coaches.
• We don’t guarantee that using beRecruited will result in an athletic scholarship. There are more than 7 million high school athletes and less than one million college athletes.
• We feel that beRecruited is a key component in the recruiting process.
• The most important thing that an athlete using beRecruited should do (and this is straight from our +9,000 registered college coaches) is to keep your profile up-to-date with both your athletic and academic information.

Please be sure to check out some of the recruiting resources that you see on the right side of this blog. We’ll be updating that frequently, to give you the best information possible on the process.The Coach