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Best of the 757 Baseball Showcase (open to 757 and 804 athletes)
The 2014 Best of the 757 Baseball Showcase ( www.bestofot.com/757/baseball/ ) at Harbor Park (Home of the Norfolk Tides) on August 23rd . The showcase is a great opportunity for high school baseball athletes in the 757 and 804 to gain exposure from VirginiaPreps.com, get a baseline for your measurables and add new skills. We have a great group of staff coaches, including --- Tim Hummel (Cape Henry), Sean Townsend (Great Bridge), Roland Wright (Western Branch), Chris Dotolo (Norfolk Academy),...
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South Carolina Gamecocks Baseball
Anyone checked out Wil Crowe; the true freshman pitcher for the Gamecocks? He is a true athlete! Great player and he's going to do big things for South Carolina!
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In The Box Academy Tryouts
In The Box Athletics is a performance facility in Sunnyvale (Just east of Mesquite) that mainly works with baseball players. Our goal is to improve players recruit-ability through increased athleticism. Think Michael Johnson Performance...
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Coaches Wanted for FCA Baseball Teams
Northern VA FCA Baseball is looking for additional 2014 Spring, Summer and Fall Baseball coaches for Travel Teams at the 12u, 14u, 15u and 17u level. Teams are located in Loudoun and Fairfax Counties, Northern Virginia. Teams are competitive...
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Collegiate Summer Team Coach Needed
Herndon Braves Collegiate Baseball team is looking for additional coaches for the 2014 Summer season. Team is an affiliate of FCA Baseball and is located in Herndon, VA. Teams plays in Cal Ripken Collegiate League (CRCBL). ...
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College Recruiting Q&A w/ Our Lady of the Lake University Coach Bryan Aughney
Bryan Aughney is the Assistant Baseball Coach/Recruiting Coordinator at Our Lady of the Lake in San Antonio Texas. Here is a Q&A by UnderRecruited Preps to help high school student-athletes learn about navigating the college recruiting process. Q: How does the college recruiting process work? We identify our needs as a program and then we go find what fits our need as well as our university and program. We know who we are, we know what kind of student athletes we can attract so we try to...
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When a player's age does not match the average for their grad year
Can anyone share your own personal experience in helping a player through the college recruitment process when the players age did not correspond to the average age of those in his grad year because academic acceleration (skipping grades in school or for some other reason finishing high school early).
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Rock Solid Baseball Tryouts
Rock Solid Teams out of Wilmington, NC is holding private evaluations for our Spring 2020 Season. Teams range from 9u-14u for travel baseball and 15u-18u for showcase. Private evaluations are held at our Coastal Athletics facility in Wilmington and are $40 per half hour. All of our coaches are ex-collegiate and professional players dedicated to taking players to the next level. Call us at 910-452-5838 or email info@rocksolidteams.net to set up an individual evaluation!
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The Unfortunate Side of Sports
I shared some information earlier this evening with a few posters on here privately, and I wish I could share more publicly, but I don't believe that I can do so due to health privacy. I know I have not been a frequent poster for some time, so while there are plenty who surely know who I am, I'm sure there are others who do not. So real quickly, I am a Certified Athletic Trainer working at the high school level. I have been a member here for close to 10 years I believe and I've read a lot of...
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Is Your School/Team/League Prepared?
Take one minute and watch this video. You'll never wonder why coaches should be required to maintain CPR/AED certification again. And you'll understand why we have the AEDs in the locations that we do. Because in the case of Sudden Cardiac Arrest, we don't have time to wait for EMS to arrive. Because that school had an AED and because that school's staff was trained in its use, and because that school had a Certified Athletic Trainer onsite, those parents watched their daughter die. And then...
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Baseball Playing Opportunities for Ages 17-26 via VMarlins
If you are a player looking to play collegiate, international, or professional baseball then look at all the avenues we provide and the results we have for those who participate in our program. Qualifications are as follows: Respect Others, Respect Self, Respect the Game. We have provided a weblink below to explore. Call anytime. Frank Fulton, GM VMarlins, 4344894544. http://www.vmarlins.com/If_This_is_You..php
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Private Tryouts for Ages 10U-16U
Pro Source Athletics is conducting private tryouts for 10U through 16U teams for this upcoming Spring/Summer. Be a part of a program that values the student-athletes by having a minimum GPA requirement, gets them involved in their communities, sends over 95% of it's graduates on to college baseball and loves to have fun and win! Contact Jeff@prosourceathletics.com for more information or to set up a private tryout. Jeff Breeding---469.569.9673 www.prosourceathletics.com
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Multi sports
Hi all, I'm new to the forum. I'm just reaching out to the community if anyone currently or had similar experiences. My son is a HS freshman and plays multi sports. We let him play the sports he likes, but his always been passionate with track field and baseball since middle school. Just a little background, he is well rounded kid , on top of his academics, and plays HS orchestra. His track and field events are 200, 400, LJ, TJ and HJ and made district meets. If it goes well he hopes to get...
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12U AA, 14U AAA ,17/18U Top level teams
Hi, Pro Source Athletics is looking for 3 12U AA players near Dallas, 2 14U AAA players near Dallas and 2 17/18U Pitchers for our top level teams this coming Spring/Summer. Contact admin@prosourceathletics.com or 972.242.1882 for further information. Thank you.
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Looking for a team in Indiana 18U
I broke my thumb last summer which kept me from being able to join a summer team. I am doing very well this high school season at Guerin Catholic, and have the eyes of a few smaller division one schools that want to see me in action on a travel team....
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Contact me we have one spot left 8 showcase tournaments - 586-764-9378
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Re: Multi sports
If you search you will find threads on playing multiple sports. My son played varsity soccer and baseball. He thought he was going to play varsity basketball after being the starting point guard on the freshman team. The varsity coach cut him from the program for never making “optional” workouts or playing summer basketball. The coach said he didn’t have enough time to put the proper focus on a third sport. In the summer he played travel baseball and attended a high end goalie day camp. In...
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Welcome to the forum. Yes, I would say most regulars here have had similar experience. Regarding multiple sports in HS, it is great to let them play the sports that they enjoy. Whether multiple sports is realistic or not and for how long depends on the talent of the student athlete, the size, strength and depth of the HS program and whether the sports cross over at the same time of year. HS sports usually demand full commitment at least to one sport at a time. Excelling in HS sports usually...
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RJM and CABBAGEDAD thank you all for the reply , and taking your time. You both are very helpful! Will just have to go through and see how far both sports goes and try our best judgement when it is time to decide which one. I'll continue digging post about multi sports. This forum is amazing.
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My son also plays multiple sports. He is a junior this year. Just this year he dropped basketball from his list of soccer and baseball. He has always played 3 sports. We found that basketball was the least favorite if he had to drop one and he has focused much of his winter season working on increasing his strength and focusing on pitching. It all depends on which one he sees himself at when it comes time to think about playing at a higher level. I have watched my son grow in both soccer and...
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Welcome. Good news: He is doing sports that require explosive development which translates well to baseball. Bad news: They are doing the same time of the year, and as far as my understanding on track it requires most of a full day to hang out for your heats. If he has national level skills in track he could keep up track and play summer ball to keep his baseball skills up in case he is one of the rare kids who could do both in college, or more likely he will probably have to chose one or...
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Baseball and track together will not work in college. The seasons conflict. The few college multi sport athletes generally play one sport in the fall and one in the spring. Usually football in the fall and baseball or track in the spring.
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Like anything in life, the greater you are the more options you have. Billy Hamilton 6.1-6.2 sixty types can do track & Baseball in college. If they insisted on it in the recruiting process, there would be a D1 that would step up and make it happen. for most mere mortals? No chance
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Re: When a player's age does not match the average for their grad year
Welcome to the site. Son was quite a bit younger. If you think about it, half of the kids trying to be recruited are younger than the average . Once you are shooting for college ball, you must be a very good player, regardless of whether younger or older than others in your class. He would be best advised to completely ignore that issue. The college recruiters don't care and neither should he. He is either a player or he isn't. He will either continue to work as hard as he can toward...
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Re: When a player's age does not match the average for their grad year
My kid is a very young 2022. He uses his age as fuel to work harder. The college coaches he interacted with did not care about his age. There was a microsecond consideration to repeat 8th grade on his part, but once he was accepted to his preferred HS, that was a dead issue (mom would not have allowed him to repeat 8th grade). From a purely selfish perspective, my wife is annoyed he won't be able to drive himself to HS school, so she is his morning uber as it is on the way to her work.
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Thinking about age is a waste of time. It can only become an excuse. My son has a May birthday. He was also a physical late bloomer. Through high school he competed against some athletes in his class who were more than a year older. The summer after 7th grade he started playing travel ball grade appropriate rather than his age group. Starting with post freshman summer he played up another year. If a kid is young and you want to change the situation 8th grade should be repeated before high...
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So I took my son to a new pitching coach a few years ago, a D1 pitching coach. Great guy, motivator etc. He's talking to both of us on our first visit and I mention my son is young for his grade (September b-day - most 2020's on his travel team are a full year + older). The guy gently ripped me apart (i was paying so I didn't get it full force). He said he only cares about whether a kid can compete and that fathers of kids who are young for their grade almost always tell him that fact. So I...
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My son is in the same boat. Late Sept bday. My wife and I moved him up a year entering grade school as we see that he can handle it academically and emotionally (and he is doing well as a freshman right now). We didn't even think about sports at that time, nor were we aware that people are doing the opposite (repeating a grade). So he has classmates that are 2 years older than he is right now. He is playing travel with his age group (not with his grade). I do find myself letting people know...
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I'm going to go against the grain here and say it can absolutely make a difference. My oldest son, non baseball, ended up in D1 athletics but got a bite from just one school. If he had taken a year, there is little doubt he would have been a state placer or champion given the year progression he made in skill level, physical maturity, and mental maturity. That would have given him more suitors, and provided him with more choices. Not only was he a year younger, but he was a late bloomer...
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Re: When a player's age does not match the average for their grad year
My son had a early Sept birthday. Most kids in the class behind him were a year older. You guessed it they all started a year later. One year we had him play with his age instead of his grade in the Fall. And while it was fun for him, it really did not help that much. I would have rather he played with his grade, looking back and face tougher competition. Played with his grade or up the rest of his HS/Travel Career. So much can happen from 8th grade to graduation. Plus I cannot imagine...
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Wech, no one is saying it can't make a difference. Most could argue that it would. But I don't think that was the OP's question and he doesn't say anything about possibly holding back a year. The points being made are.. 1. Once you are in the recruiting process, don't allow it to be an excuse. Every player will face many hurdles to jump. Will the player attack and fly over them or hesitate and get hung up? 2. Recruiters don't care. You either have the skill set they are looking for when they...
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TOTALLY agree on point 1. No excuses ever, in sport or life. Would never bring that up at any point if I were an athlete or parent. For point 2, it only matters to recruiters in that they are seeing most likely a more physically mature athlete, which only helps them project. Walking my initial point back a bit, if I were to really have the chance to so it again I would have done it when he started school, not between middle school and HS. We debated it for a millisecond but elected against...
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Yup, and agree I over-generalized on #2... that can be a factor.
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Re: When a player's age does not match the average for their grad year
To OP's original question though, do recruiters take the possibility that the kid is not physically as mature as other kids in his grade into consideration? For example, in looking at PG grades, they compare your metrics with other people in your grade, some of which could be 2 years older.
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It's individual to the recruiter/prospect. Here's another answer. Scout "Son, how tall are you?" Player "5'11" Scout "Nobody is 5'11". If I like you, you are 6'0". If I don't like you, you are 5'10"."
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Re: When a player's age does not match the average for their grad year
Bingo, exactly! It's all in the eye of the beholder. If you are skinny, and the RC doesn't like you, then you are deemed "undersized". If you are skinny and the RC takes a shine to you, then you are "projectable, with plenty of room to fill out".
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Re: When a player's age does not match the average for their grad year
Thanks! That's exactly the insight I'm looking for. And yes, my son is not only studying up a grade, but he is undersized even compared to people his age.
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Re: The Unfortunate Side of Sports
Very good, thank you for posting. While I am assuming these were actual accidents, that fortunetly doesn't happen too often but when it does its devastating. I have to tell you, I am amazed at how many people come to post here about their players injuries, and they haven't even reached college yet. I have been here for a long time and it seems like its rampid. Some of these minor injuries can turn into a lifelong problem. Athletes seldom feel 100 % healthy and it beginning sooner while they...
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Re: Is Your School/Team/League Prepared?
Wow, thank you for posting. I'll be forwarding that to our HS AD and principal. Glad she's ok.
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Gov, I think it's a very powerful message. I've probably watched that video over 10 times already. It has gone viral on the internet, that Facebook video has been seen over 6.3 million times already. In Texas, all coaches are required to maintain CPR/AED/First Aid training. Our school employs two full-time Athletic Trainers along with a full-time school nurse. We have 11 AEDs on our campus and have over 50 staff members trained in CPR/AED/First Aid. Our goal for the 2016-2017 school year is...
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Excellent post and point. It's something I will look into for sure.
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Yes, AED should be available everywhere. Our Men's Group at our church raised money and had one installed at our church. Fortunately it has needed to be used, but it is there.
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Great video. Ironically, I'm in Georgia (like the video) and our baseball field has an AED installed outside the concession window, so there's always access to it for practice, etc., even when concession is locked. All coaches are trained on the use as well. That video really makes a statement.
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Bulldog, This hit very close to home. My father in law suffered sudden cardiac arrest a few years ago. By the grace of a higher power, he happened to be with us at the time. He was supposed to be home alone. Due to training that my husband received in high school, he was able to start immediate CPR. We were in a restaurant and they did not have an AED. Luckily, the fire department was there in a matter of minutes and he received life saving AED treatment before the critical 5 minute mark. He...
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Keewartson was playing in a 14U tournament at a larger complex north of our city and located in the middle of nowhere. On the adjacent field a coach went down and it was a scramble to find 6-8 adults that could perform CPR on a rotating basis until an ambulance arrived. Sometimes it takes something like this to get AEDs installed, which this complex did after this incident. (The coach survived). Next time you are at a complex, check around for an AED. You may need to use it, and the newer...
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Bulldog, thanks for taking the time to post this. As Bulldog mentioned, all coaches are trained for these circumstances. However, there is always that question as to whether they will respond. In this case, it is apparent that the training took over. I have used my training two times albeit not at school. One was to save my Father in Law. PLEASE take the time to get trained and certified. On another note, AEDs are to be in places that are well marked and available to for use. However, as...
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We are looking into a program right now that would provide EKG, echocardiogram, and a carotid artery ultrasound, nearly free of charge! We are hoping it gets approved, because I don't want to have something happen and think about "could we have caught that?" Also, I have attached a blog post I wrote last spring about our AEDs on our campus.. http://ksi.uconn.edu/2015/04/0...rnal-defibrillators/
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269 seconds. That's the time it took for the CPR and the AED to do its job. 269 seconds from the time Claire collapsed until she woke up. An amazing story, read the teacher's account here! http://www.dedicatedtoallbetter.org/5035-2/ Want to know how the Lord was watching over her that day? Just 24 hours earlier her volleyball team was playing an away game at a school whose AED contained dead batteries. Had she collapsed just 24 hours earlier, she'd be dead.
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Re: College Recruiting Q&A w/ Our Lady of the Lake University Coach Bryan Aughney
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