High school athletes should email college coaches in fall, when 75-85% of scholarship offers happen. Skip generic questions like "are you looking for me?" Instead, start with congratulations, express interest in attending games, then end the season by attaching your showcase schedule and asking to shake their hand in person.
Is the fall a good time to email teams or not? Most people think the fall is not a good time to email coaches because it's during the season. I would argue that 75 to 85% of offers happen during the fall. You should definitely still email them during the fall season. How come they're not responding to me then? I keep writing emails and I'm not getting anything. Well, it depends what you're saying in your emails. For example, if you are saying, hey, are you looking for me for the class of 2025? That's not really the question you want to ask during the fall season. So instead, you want to wish them good luck or say congratulations on a certain win. And then you want say to them, I'm looking to come to one of your games. Now, when you watch this video, it's going to be towards the end of the fall season, so you got to change it one more time. So this time what you want to say is congratulations or good luck throughout the email, and you should be doing that kind of regularly without asking any questions, just like, hey coach, congratulations. But then it's going to be soon time to send your showcase schedule. So when you send your showcase schedule, you want to say to them, may I briefly shake your hand in person if you're able to attend? So it's going to read like this towards the end of the fall season: Dear coach, Congratulations on such a great season. I really enjoyed watching XYZ. I understand that the season is coming to an end. My showcase schedules are coming around. I wanted to see if you were able to attend. Here's my showcase schedule. And then they will either respond or not respond based off of depending on if they can come. But we are going to be there and we've made a note of your schedule. If you want more help, comment, call, and we can schedule a call with you and your parents.
