@Consultant love this!! You can’t always control the outcome but you can control the process. How hard you work. The competition you play against. How you take care of your body. In our case, it was a slow process of challenging himself against the best local competition, then against the best regional competition until the summer after sophomore year where he started seeing the best national competition. As he kept challenging himself, he realized he was holding his own and that’s when he knew he was a D1 prospect. But the gulf between a D1 prospect and a D1 player is bridged not only by the players present ability to produce (being a prospect is based only on projections) but by opportunity, adaptability (you could be an amazing 18 year old SS but if they already have an amazing 20 year old SS on the team you may have to adapt or wait your turn), and availability (are you healthy and able to play).