Finding it hard to get noticed, help me please

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Tmart..

Wander this website, lots of great things here...timetable, articles, postings, old postings...and more. Enough good information here for anyone...

Start researching schools that tweak your interest...on line, and in person if possible.

Talk to your coach and get some suggestions, guidence, feedback and suggestions

Construct a resume and letter of intro, get addresses and coaches names from team websites, use them to make contcat. Express why you are interested in their specific school.

Keep working your baseball skills, stregnth and speed.

That will get you started....

You're not far from the Perfect Game showcases, etc. in Iowa. You might check them out. We are in Wisconsin too - northcentral - and my son attended a Wis. showcase in Appleton in June run by Showtime sports (http://www.showtimesportscamps.com). There were a lot of college coaches from all over the Midwest there. They have tryouts in the spring at different sites around the state.
One other thing that we did that also brought attention is to attend the Pro tryout camps. I was surprised how much attention that brought and also gives you a pro scout who has seen you - you'll need that on the college questionnaires.
I also really believe that working hard in high school baseball matters. My son played at State as a soph and that started the process for us. He plays football and basketball too so we didn't use fall leagues or fall/winter showcases. BUt, others do and it works too.
Good luck!

Thanks a lot guys, im getting in to the showtime sports camp. and if there are any other good camps that you know of please tell me about them, remember that i live in the southern wisconsin area...thanks for the help

tmart2302: Move from 2b to ss, hit .100 to .200 pts higher than last year, hit for power, pick two showcases and go (PG and another one), go to as many college camps that you can, play for a quality summer team where the scouts are. Call the Colleges that you want to got to, send them your schedule, e-mail them you current stats. Use this site to ask questions, talk to players that you know that are playing college ball, find a pro scout to get on a fall ball scout team. Get good grades, be nice to your Mom. Take out the trash, and clean your room. Learn how to cook, and learn how to wash your own dirty underwear. Spend more time in the cages than time your girlfriend. Cut your hair and look like a ballpayer. Be ready to play, and never be late. Do this and you will get noticed.

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....Do this and you will get noticed.

Bull
Classic. The cold truth without condescention. Hopefully, I can use the quote with a proper footnote.

ILbaseball1

What is Kevin's last name from the ebaseball site?

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Originally posted by Bullwinkle:
... Get good grades ... Spend more time in the cages than time your girlfriend ...

Bullwinkle, that's so very, very good. I can't emphasize enough the grades thing. Granted, it takes a combination of all those things you mention to achieve the goal of playing baseball in a competitive D1 program. But, no matter how gifted you may be athleticly, no school is going to take a risk on a poor student ... especially with the new NCAA rules on graduation rates. They simply can't afford to impact the already meager scholarship budget. Athletic ability is what gets the initial interest in what you can contribute to a particular program ... the grades often determine whether that interest develops into qualitative disussions. Good grades maximize your choices, bad grades limit your choices.

Still working on the clean room thing

Bullwinkle

Good recommendations.

phonesteele,

Cleaning the room is the easy part - unfortunately the stuff usually turns up - somewhere else in the house where it was tossed.

Here's a funny one: you know how kids these days ask each other to homecoming, prom, etc., by doing something 'surprising' ... signs along the road, popping out of boxes, whatever?

My son got asked to homecoming by his girlfriend this way: she got into our house while he was at school and cleaned his room! He came home and didn't know what was up until he went into his bathroom and saw the signs, ballons, etc.

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My son has taught me everything I know about baseball ...

Me too.

Tyler,

I live just outside of Milwaukee, and have been throught this with both of my sons. It is difficult to get noticed if you stay passive.

If you are proactive it's not too tough.

Email me at darrells@wi.rr.comNOSPAM (remove the NOSPAM) and we can discuss whay we did with my sons.

Darrell