June to September this year for your 2020..get your video reel done and post to youtube..send that to coaches in June..lineup your showcases and good luck.
Our experience, and we really didn't know what the heck we were doing. Son went to SB camp after sophomore year. Got some interest and then was ghosted or wasn't interested in school for academic reasons. Son started really targeting one HA school, ie had filled out recruiting questionnaire and had been in email contact with HC. This coach was not at SB. Emails consisted of my son saying "here are my stats, here are my grades, here's where I will be playing this summer" and coach responding "Thanks, keep studying hard."
Late summer before senior year, son attended HA camp at school he had been targeting for the first time. Can't really tell you why he didn't go before other than we were pretty clueless. Son says he showed well. Son sent a follow up thank you type email. Coach then reached out via email for latest scores/transcript. Several weeks later got an email invite for a ON. Son went on ON in Oct, fell even more in love with the school and loved the experience with the players. Not sure son even said more than a handful of words to the coaches.
Then coach sent an email that said they'd like to see son apply ED, but all admissions was solely up to Admissions Committee. It was short and cryptic. Much discussion over whether or not to do so as ED was a financial commitment by us and we still had no idea how interested coach really was in our son. In the end we allowed son to apply ED due to the "fitness" of the academics, ie it was his dream school irregardless of baseball. After application is in, son gets a LL. Cryptic brief emails between coach and son continue.
Son got in ED, and almost immediately got an email from Coach congratulating him. Conversations have now gone to text and are just as brief and cryptic......which I guess explains email style.lol
Kind of a weird journey for sure, but that was our experience.
Thanks for posting this. I’m beginning to think every HA recruiting experience is unique. Yours seems to have been much more low key than the two times we’ve gone through it.
Chico,
To Smoke's point...possibly every HA recruiting experience is unique. I'll give you another possible angle. My son was offered (early Spring junior year) by some D1 mid-majors (both very good schools including a public Ivy ) but neither offered an engineering major. We had been in touch with some Ivys that were showing serious interest in the early summer. At about the same time, a handful of D3 HA schools were reaching out to him in the early summer. Keep in mind it was extremely difficult for us to find a suitable situation that includes a quality engineering school and quality baseball program. At this point my son doesn't care whether it is D1, D3 or D17 baseball, he just wants the best engineering school he can find, and play baseball. My point in this is sometimes you have to create a market or name for yourself elsewhere to get what/where you want to go. It was very clear to us that the Ivy coaches were talking to the NESCAC coaches, and this led to his serious recruitment by some D3 HAs. His ultimate decision came down to the engineering school not the NCAA level. If things had not worked out at his first choice his second choice was a NESCAC and third choice was Ivy.
Just our experience in this crazy process. Good luck!
Thanks (again) to all--this has been helpful.
Did any of you find the PG Academic showcase helpful? We are in NC and most schools my son is interested in is are in the northeast or mid-Atlantic. His summer team will play in the WWBA in July and he is signed up for Showball academic in mid-July, but otherwise he's not likely to be seen by any schools outside the southeast. The PG Academic in in mid-June this year in Alabama. Did any of your sons attend that? Were HA coaches actually there or were data from the event useful? (Son already has a PG profile that shows him well, but those numbers are from 2018.) Coaches from some schools have texted / emailed just to say "keep me posted" and son has sent his spring and summer schedule to ~25 schools. So they know where to find him, but they aren't typically in our neck of the woods.
Any other recommendations for showcases (other than Headfirst and Showball) that get a lot of HA schools--especially ones that are fairly early in the summer?
Chico - go to HF in June also... then your son will have a blend of HA who will have seen him. The feedback we got was not many HA D3’s go to PG Academic because the academics of players are not as strong as HF or Showball. And PG doesn’t list the schools attending. I know Harvard’s Decker has attended, eventually recruiting a members son.
JHopkins, Midd, GTown, Ivy AC’s go to PG WWBA.... were there the previous year.
Ask the schools where their coaches will be this summer?
If you can spare the expense (and if there is still availability), the Stanford camp is exceptional. I have attached a list of schools that are attending/coaching. It's $1,100 but an awesome experience and my son made a lot of contact with coaches during that camp: http://www.stanfordbaseballcam...HS_Aged_Players_.htm
We also found that HeadFirst provided the most focused time to communicate directly with coaches so I recommend that camp as well. Good luck!
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