Concerns about Contacting Coaches (2017)

While you may wait a little to "showcase" do not wait to correspond and show your interest. Fill-out recruiting questionnaires on line is a start, and getting a video together is a good idea as well. What you are seeing is the different timetables that each D3/NESCAC has. It's for that reason which makes the recruiting puzzle a "labyrinth" difficult to navigate when similar conference schools have different needs and work to recruit at a different pace.

While the Ivies are likely done recruiting 2016 and looking at 2017s, when my son went through recruiting of the high academics we found that some Patriot (and NESCACs) were still recruiting in the fall of senior year. Some of the smaller liberal arts HIGH academics were picking up players in spring senior year (Son's HS catcher landed a spot at one right before HS season).

You could also gain some knowledge looking at the heights and weights of those on the current roster of schools you are targeting. You can also gain insight into how many players are on the rosters. My 2015 is considered undersized as well; your assets are similar to his.  Keep working hard to get better, and keep up your grades. Good luck! Junior year is an important one.

Height and weight are overhyped here.  An Ivy coach once told son, "I've learned the hard way that speed with power are not correlated with high SAT scores - so, I have to recruit them separately".  I like your speed - thats a valuable commodity in the academic world.  Speed never has a bad game and never gets a day off.  Speed has a chance in every at bat and speed plays both offense and defense.  You're on the right track.  Get your name out by contacting coaches and giving them the events you think you'll play in next summer.  No one cares about high school stats anyway.

Please don't tell us you are thinking about committing to a DIII college before your junior season.  Why would anyone do that?

if that school wants you now, why wouldn't they want you in two years?  Surely, you think you will be even better in two years. You already have one plus MLB tool that DIs would be interested in.

Sorry if I didn't read your post correctly. Maybe I missed something.

No, that's a misunderstanding. I want to go Ivy/NESCAC...the specific D3 I contacted is not a school that fits that profile. Their interest merely prompted my concerns.