A guide to filming sports highlights for college recruiters. Always shoot horizontally with a wide view, capture every play because one unexpected moment can change everything, and use platforms like Veo, Trace, or Hudl to organize footage. The speaker's own game-winning carry sparked recruiter interest.
3 things to never do in your highlight video. Mom and Dad, your days of watching your kids are over. It is all about recording, recording, recording. I hope to God that you probably do not have one that looks like this, that you can use your iPhone. Make sure you film sideways, do not film vertical. Veo and Trace and Hudl are all good enough. You can hire your own professional videographer and make you look nice and fancy, but that's going to be separate footage because it's so zoomed in. The bird's eye view is the most important, and my system, we can zoom in, so don't worry too much about that. And then make sure, get every best moment. So that means recording every time. You never know when you're gonna score the banger. This is me getting carried off the field because my dad happened to be standing behind the goal, and literally this clip made the college coaches say, "Why did they pick you up?" And then I explained to them it was a game winner and I was kind of the captain of my JV team as a junior, and they were like, "What the heck? How did you improve so much?" and then I got recruited. So you gotta get every single moment on video. If you wanna know what should be in your highlight video, comment the word review and I'll look at your video for free.
