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1st&3rd posted:

tequila,

Does your son have HA D3s that are actively recruiting him and had already seen him play?  If so, reach out to them and let them know the situation.  They may still want him.  While my son lost all HA D1 interest after he was injured and had TJ surgery every single HA D3 still wanted him.

Best of luck to your son and keep us updated.   

Hi 1st&3rd,
He doesn't have any HA D3s actively recruiting him that have seen him play in person. We live in a relatively small metro area, and he wants to go out of the region, so the schools he's interested in from an academic and geographic perspective would have never gotten to see him play around here. His summer team (B-team / big-name org) connections are regional for the most part, and they never have played in the big name tournaments other than a couple of the "national championships" put on by Premier Baseball each summer, so that hasn't been a very fruitful avenue. Hindsight being 20/20, I'd have helped him do this a little differently if we'd known what we were doing when the process all began. The stud team goes to all that stuff but he's not been with that squad, other than filling in a couple of times when they needed a catcher. No animosity there; we've been realistic about his talent for quite some time now and think it's pretty solidly in the lower-D2/D3/NAIA space if he wants actual playing time.

We thought we had it all set up beautifully for the summer, with some tournaments, a HF event that had multiple schools of interest, and a couple of other showcases/camps that were slightly more targeted, and then the plan went to hell in a hand-basket with the injury in his last couple of games in the HS season. So, long story short, he currently has one NAIA HC that has seen him and wants to start the recruiting process but would like to get him to a camp so the rest of his staff can participate, a handful of HA D3s that are expecting him at event X in the fall, and a regional D2 that has seen him at a camp that is still on the radar that have expressed interest but not started the recruiting process. He had initiated communication with all the coaches that were going to be at the original HF event, and had good dialog going with several, so he had to inform those of his injury and rescheduled plans, which was met positively for those who responded.

We'll see where it goes and I'll post out here as the process moves along. Thanks for the comments!

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