Athletes should email coaches after camps asking "What level do you believe I should aim for?" instead of asking if the coach likes them. A Division I coach's answer reveals their true interest: saying "Division I" means they're recruiting you, while saying "Division III" means they're not. One player got told by UW he was a Division III prospect, then used that exact quote to land serious interest from Division III schools.
How do you know if you're on a coach's watch list after you've attended an ID camp? And the answer is you'll never know that, and you'll never really know if you're being recruited by them until you literally know you're being recruited by them, in which case they tell you. After an ID camp, you must email them and ask them, what level do you believe I should aim for? Do not ask them, do you like me? What feedback should I get? You have to ask them what level, because if they tell you, I think you're Division I, and they're a Division I school, that's their way of saying we like you. If on the flip side they say, we think you should aim for Division III, and they're a Division I school, that That means they don't like you and you got an answer back and now you can go focus on Division III schools. We just had a student recently send some emails out and in those emails we said, "Coach, after seeing me at the ID camp, what level do you believe I should aim for?" And they told him, "We think you're a DIII player." But it was from UW, a really top Division I school. So we took the exact message that the coach sent and said, "Hi, Division III school. I just was at the UW camp. He thinks I'm good enough for a top academic DIII school. I'm reaching out to you because you're a school that I'd like to go to." And the UW coach says, "You're the type of school I can aim for." Now that Division III coach is way more more likely to respond to us and like us because we're being referenced by another coach who has seen us in person. If you want more help, comment 'call' and we can schedule a call with you and your parents.
