Letters are starting to come and we are filling out the info forms, etc. Does anyone have a cover letter format that is good to send in with the player profile? Just wondering how it should look.
Thanks in advance.
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Our first inquiry letters had a good picture in the upper left. On the upper right was a small box with son's name, year of grad, birthdate, school, position, left or right hitter/pitcher, ht and weight. The body of the letter was hand written for the initial "i am interested in your school." My son liked to add a "Go Cardinal!" or whatever the name of the team was for the school. We also formated a player profile with stats, phone numbers, references, etc. If it was a school of high interest, we'd send that along with the inquiry letter. We'd always fill out the questionaire that followed, though. I kept the player profile in my document folder in my computer and we'd update it. Once we got a league schedule, we'd send that and add showcases, camps, etc.
It's quite a little kitchen table business. Get a good filing system going. keep track of who wrote back, whether it was a personal response or whatever.
It's quite a little kitchen table business. Get a good filing system going. keep track of who wrote back, whether it was a personal response or whatever.
Old Pitcher,
Check out this page http://www.hsbaseballweb.com/players_parents.htm for links to several different types of letters, as well as lots of additional recruiting advice and articles that you may or may not have noticed earlier. Best wishes to your son!
Julie
Check out this page http://www.hsbaseballweb.com/players_parents.htm for links to several different types of letters, as well as lots of additional recruiting advice and articles that you may or may not have noticed earlier. Best wishes to your son!
Julie
There is a sample letter on this website, too. We followed it pretty closely, too.
http://www.hsbaseballweb.com/intro_letter.htm
http://www.hsbaseballweb.com/intro_letter.htm
An alternate approach:
I went down to the local stationery store and ordered some simple note cards with our son's name nicely engraved at the top. When he returned a questionnaire, it gave him an opportunity to write a short, personalized note to the receiving coach and attach it to the questionnaire. Later, they were also a vehicle for covering a season or showcase schedule or for acknowledging some sort of special correspondence he'd received from a program.
We appreciated the handwritten notes he received from coaches the most. Why wouldn't it also work that way in reverse?
Meanwhile, the note cards ended up serving double duty nicely as thank you cards, etc.
I went down to the local stationery store and ordered some simple note cards with our son's name nicely engraved at the top. When he returned a questionnaire, it gave him an opportunity to write a short, personalized note to the receiving coach and attach it to the questionnaire. Later, they were also a vehicle for covering a season or showcase schedule or for acknowledging some sort of special correspondence he'd received from a program.
We appreciated the handwritten notes he received from coaches the most. Why wouldn't it also work that way in reverse?
Meanwhile, the note cards ended up serving double duty nicely as thank you cards, etc.
Advice to me given by others was to Keep It Short. I have seen the numbers and they are staggering as to the sheer volume the recruiting coach receives.
We also made sure it was a personalized letter with comments about the particular school, why my son was interested, any family connections, etc.
We also made sure it was a personalized letter with comments about the particular school, why my son was interested, any family connections, etc.
Thank you all for the info. It helped me a lot.