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use a generic email address that says who and what he is so it is not ambiguous.  Try:

John.Doe2014RHP@gmail.com

The easiest and most probable way for recruiters to obtain your email address without your sending it to them directly is through the registration information provided to showcase organizers.

 

Your son should certainly have his own email address, and it should become the focus of email correspondence from here on out. He can always forward correspndence to you that he receives.

 

If he doesn't already have one, I'd have him establish one with gmail or another similar service. A suggestion: Have him use his name in the email address, rather than something like "baller42." Why? Because it will cause his name to appear in the recruiter's "From" space when he checks his email. Chances are, the recruiter won't know "baller42" from "baller43," and the "baller" part certainly won't impress him.

 

Best of luck to your son!

Dolphin - this is great advice.  Because his email address will get bombarded after he takes the SAT or other tests, along with any personal email he receives, it's good to have a dedicated email for baseball recruiting.  I share access to the account with him so that we are doubly sure not to miss anything - but I try to get him to use it (I have sent an occasional email and was transparent that it was from the parent, it's better when it's from him).  We keep it very clean and don't use it for anything else.

 

Another thing you may know of already is Twitter, he should have a separate twitter account for baseball.  If coaches begin to follow him, you can post what tournaments, games, and fields you are at and if they are in the area they can stop by.  Again, we share access so that I can do a baseball update while he is warming up. 

I created an email account specifically for recruiting... sons name.travel team name.class year @Gmail. I figured the email name might make him more identifiable.

In our family, it's the kids who set up email accounts for the parents! I am feeling really really old right now.

 

(I agree that a discrete account identifying the player by name and class is the way to go)

My kid is 2017. We just bought his domain name 2 weeks ago and he has email through that which reads firstname @ firstlastname.com. He will use this for all communications with high schools and then can develop the site with videos, stats, links elsewhere, etc.  Hope it's not over the top, but it just made sense to keep it simple?

 

 

Meant to say communications with colleges.  Typing too fast today. 

Including the graduation year will help coaches focus and allow them to stay organized.

OK thanks..

 

I figured showcase registration was one of the main sources? How else do coaches get these emails?

 

We will set up a baseball email today....

I assumed they get the email addresses from the athlete questionnaire you filled out for the college - that's how a player initially "gets in the system".  Or a prior communication you may have had with them, or a camp at the school your player may have attended.  If these are not applicable, yeah, maybe from a showcase or tournament contact list. I didn't think about it that much, it's a good question, particularly in this day and age when people may have multiple email addresses.

Emails are tricky, since there are several mass marketed emails that coaches get when you register at any event.  Scoutware, PowerSource, FrontRush are all examples of mass emails that are sent and are not personal, even if your son's name appears in the email.   If you hover over the unsubscribe button you can usually see the name of the mass email marketer.  My son who is currently playing D-1 got SO MANY mass emails it was crazy.  A separate account just for baseball is helpful to keep track of everything.  And btw, don't put a ton of stock on the Sept. 1 deadline for Juniors, my son got two emails that day, but still ended up going D-1 with several offers.  It is also important for your son to reply to emails to the school he is interested in, even if it is mass marketed email, if he is interested in that school he should respond and start an ongoing relationship with their recruiting coach. 

What type of stuff/content is allowed on 9/1 emails for Jr's and how often??

We used this method and it worked great!

This may be obvious to some, but in our house the admin for the email accounts and owner of the computers is me.  When I added an email account, the default "reply address" was my name, even though we had set up a separate baseball account for son.  I had to search around through settings to reset the default so that the reply name showed up as my son.  THIS is a good place to add the position or the year he is graduating, since the actual email address may not get seen much, i.e. the email shows up in someone's box as from "Doug Smith 2015 RHP". 

Email is not checked as often as text messages, so I suggest you autoforward emails to your son's text reader, e.g., with Verizon we have son's emails forwarded to XXXXXXXXXX@vtext.com.