A guide for student-athletes on contacting college coaches: text first, then email to confirm. Check iMessage bubble color to see if they have an iPhone. Even freshmen and sophomores should reach out if you have their number, though coaches can't offer scholarships to underclassmen before June 15 at Division I and II schools.
Dear Coach, I hope this finds you well. I really appreciate your email. I also sent you a brief text message introducing myself. The reason you want to get the text message is getting the text message is like, is better than email. You're more in a relationship with them. It's fantastic. So you want to email them that you have sent them a text message. Then before you send that email, right, so draft that email out, then you're going to go to your text You're gonna see if their phone number pops up blue. If it's blue, you know it's an iPhone. If it's green, it could still be a cell phone, but it's less likely. Then you're gonna text them. You say, "Dear Coach." Dear, extra, I don't care, it's a text. Extra polite all the time. Be too polite, always too polite. "Dear Coach, this is so-and-so. We exchanged emails earlier. I just wanted to briefly introduce myself. I hope you're doing well." Now I know some of you are like, "Well, I'm only a freshman, I'm only a sophomore." It doesn't matter. If they left their cell phone number, text them. Okay, they're human beings, they're allowed to talk to you. They're just not allowed to recruit you. They're not allowed to be like, well, we wanna give you a full ride if you're a freshman or a sophomore before June 15th. Unless it's a D3 school or an NAIA school, then they actually are allowed to do that. So text them no matter what, that's the bottom line here. Text them no matter what. Okay, that pretty much covers all of the types of genuine emails you're gonna receive and how to respond to them. Now, these are generic answers that I'm giving you, right? I don't know who you are. So if you would like more help with your situation, you know what to do. You're gonna call me. Link's in the description, link's in the bio, so that way I can properly help you get recruited. Talk to you soon.
