We need some advice on the college recruiting process. I have a sophomore son who attends a great baseball school. The program has a lot of history in state tournaments and promoting players to D1, D2, NAIA, JUCO. He is pitching alot for his JV team and doing very well. He sometimes gets an inning or two on the varisty.
We want to start looking into different schools that he might want to attend, that are either close to home, in-state, have the degree program that he might want to study. We have started looking at where some of our recently graduated players are attending etc...
Player profile
GPA is 3.75
Graduates in 2013
6'3 165 has very good control and throws 4 pitches
His fastball is 81-82
We are going to try and put on some more weight the next couple of years and see if we can realistically get the fastball to 87-88
We are going to go to a showcase somewhere next year after his jr. season....since that will likely be after his first full year of varsity ball.
Of course if someone contacts us that would be great but from reading some of these threads it seems like we need to take a proactive approach. Should we located/contact schools at all levels, D1, D2, JUCO and so on? We want to have goals , but attainable goals.
I guess I'm wondering about his projection and how much better he can get from where he is now till his sr season and then what level he might fall into.
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