We went to a camp at a D1 to support a friend who's son was the assistant volunteer coach. Son was a sophomore in HS. The coach was very encouraging of our son and after the camp asked what other schools he was talking to listing off several D1s. I started laughing and said "honestly, we don't know for sure if he's a D1 or a D3 or has any skill whatsoever."
The coach looked at me like I was crazy and said "he's a D1. We'd like him to play here."
We walked outside and son had to sit down for a minute.
"Mom, I always believed I could do it, but it's the first time someone else believed it too."
It was an amazing moment and feeling.
Ironically, never heard from the school again, the assistant coach became a head coach at a D2 a year later and tried to recruit son.