Skip to main content

Reply to "Offer experiences"

@RJM posted:

Daughter received softball offer late summer of post freshman year. It’s how D1 female sports work. The top, elite girls receive offers in 8th grade. The offer was on a visit in August. She had until April of soph year guaranteed the offer would still be on the table. She accepted in April. It’s hard to accept early. But girls don’t have a choice. The school was one of the best in her major.

With respect....no.  That's not how "D1 female sports work".

That's how softball recruiting used to work before the NCAA changed the rules in 2018.

Softball lead, and baseball followed, to make Sept. 1st junior year the opening point for first contact. The softball rules even make it illegal to circumvent the process via club or HS coaches.

So while there are still some softball players who verbally commit before 9/1 the number is down dramatically and it's rare to hear about early commits anymore.

*****

Just like in baseball, college softball coaches will keep offers - even full offers - open for the most talented players right up until the summer after graduation. Which means that the most talented softball players have a lot of choices while less talented players have less choices.

*****

Pre-2018 other "female sports" recruited later than softball, except for lacrosse. It was the womens and mens college lax coaches who first approached the NCAA in 2016 about limiting early recruiting. Softball copied the lax timeline after it was codified in 2017 and baseball agreed to go along with the softball timeframe. Most other sports have now followed suit.

https://www.flosoftball.com/ar...ber-1-of-junior-year

Last edited by SpeedDemon
×
×
×
×