Dad Prays, Learns about how Recruiting is in 2012, and has Success!
February 8th, 2012 - byBrad Taylor is a smiling parent. His daughter Callie has found the right fit for her to be a student-athlete at the next level. Callie is a golfer who has connected with an outstanding scholarship at D2 North Greenville University in Greenville, South Carolina, about six hours from their Ohio home.
This is what Brad wrote to Michael Brice of NCSA upon the conclusion of the recruiting process for them:
“Words can not express what an absolutely incredible experience this has been for our whole family. Your process took us from learning about the “new Experience” with the online help, to how to visit and talk to coaches, till now we narrowed the offers and finally accepted at a D2 Christian school….which was our ultimate goal. The offer was better than expected. And we give God all the credit, and we thank Him for leading us to you. Best money we have spent in a long time. God Bless,
Brad and Callie Taylor
Callie started playing golf when she was five. She has been an All Conference golfer who was 2nd runner up in State Sectionals. She shoots in the low to mid 80′s, has great promise, and was recruited by many coaches through NCSA. She ended up getting about 70% scholarship to start with for College. Besides being a very good golfer, Callie has focused on being an Athleader. She ran for Senior Class Treasurer and is honored to have been elected by her peers to serve during this, her senior year of high school. She earned membership to South Point High School math club, Mu Alpha Theta, and was chosen according to grade point average and class standing to participate in an engineering class, Project Lead the Way, during her Freshman year at South Point.
As I often do, I talked with her Dad so that he could share their experience to better inform you of what recruiting is like in 2012, where the online world can play such a pivotal role.
“What I liked, Charlie, is that there is so much information so that College coaches can do 1-stop shopping for everything on her Profile. You can see what College coaches look at her information, and how much. In our case we wanted to zero in on Christian Colleges and you can do that with your Search. We had over 25 that would view, mainly in the part of the Midwest (Ohio) we live in.”
“At first we were skeptical of doing something like NCSA. We stepped out in faith, though, and thought this could be a good thing.”
“We had six really valid offers. I have already told people I work with about it. A guy asked me how it went. His daughter is a sophomore track star. He said senior year they would start working on recruiting. I said, ‘No, start now. Get into it now and you will be amazed what College coaches will follow her now and come senior year it will really come together.’
“I did a swing video and sent out ten packages. Two or three sent something back that recognized they had received the packages and would stay in touch. I just didn’t know what I was doing them. What I found is that NCSA is such a structured tool. Someone like me trying to make an athletic resume for my child, I had no clue. The NCSA form walks you through. Like in golf, it has you put in information for 9 hole average, 18 hole, driving distance, average number of putts, greens in regulation, things I didn’t realize needed to be there for a College coach.”
“The power of Video is amazing. A college coach in Georgia basically made us one of the best scholarship offers purely based on seeing her video on NCSA. He saw her potential. At that point he had never met her, but made a big offer based on Video.” See Callie’s NCSA Golf Video here
“Another thing we learned from this is how many regional College coaches use NCSA to recruit kids near them. One good scholarship offer we had came from a school an hour and a half away from our home. The coach found her through her NCSA profile. Callie has had quite a bit of media coverage locally but the College coach did not know of her until he saw her NCSA Profile.”
“We prayed for over a year that Callie would know the right school. We have an older son at Liberty University and needed God to help us get scholarship help because we would have two in College at the same time. He really answered our prayers.” - Brad Taylor, parent of Callie
Thank you, Brad, for your insights. NCSA believes in helping to develop Athleaders like Callie. She has become one. This is what she has told College coaches about her future:
“I would like to give back to the game of golf by working with and teaching kids about the game and how to develop their game. It has taught me about good sportsmanship and the importance of honesty and integrity to the game. I feel these characteristics are important to success in life.” - Callie Taylor, soon to be a Division 2 women’s College golfer.
To Learn More about Building an Athletic Academic Resume for College Coaches
Charlie Adams
NCSA Athletic Recruiting Network speaker and recruiting expert
cadams@ncsasports.org
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