Son is currently a senior RHP at D3 school in a strong conference, team typically plays a tough overall schedule.
Played for a pretty well respected and well scouted club team throughout high school, and got lots of innings because he got outs and ate innings.
Tall skinny kid, 6' 1" as Frosh - 6' 3" as Senior - never more than 170 lbs in high school. Always commanded two good secondary pitches.
Frosh: 76 - 78 no recruiting interest
Soph: 78 - 80 no recruiting interest - son decides to focus on playing at high academic D3
Junior: 80 - 83 - One Ivy head coach sees him by coincidence at tournament, becomes quite interested due to in-game performance. Spends next two months contacting son, acquiring transcripts, test scores, passes info through admissions, tells son he's got thumbs-up on admissions pre-read and tells him he's on his list, exactly where he stands on his list (seemed like a 60/40 chance) and that he really likes him. This is the first and only D1 interest son garnered.
Attends Headfirst summer before senior season. Pitches at 80 - 83, multiple D3 coaches approach him.
Applies Early Decision to his #1 school, accepted.
Senior HS season, pitched at 82-84, barely misses Conference Pitcher of Year award in a strong league, was approached by two highly respected JC coaches who saw him while scouting someone else, son declined, sold on D3 school.
As it turns out, son has had a nice college career through three years, now sits 83 - 85, humps-up to 87 on a pitch or two, has thrown over 150 innings so far, about 120 K's, some ups-and-downs, but a lot of really nice outings against some very quality opponents, while also developing lots of interests outside of baseball.
This has been a nice thread to read, thanks to the OP for posting.