Alex Swenson covers recruiting strategy for college baseball. Target schools actively recruiting your position and understand their class needs instead of hoping. Build a strong highlight video, consider D2 and D3 opportunities seriously, and think beyond baseball about academics and social life.
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Be Talking about the 10 things I wish you knew about recruiting. In particular college baseball. Recognizing the value of D2 and D3 baseball. You getting the great experience of being a student athlete. Whether it's D1, D2, D3 is what you should be focused on as we go and making sure that you can find schools that you can have an opportunity to play at. Find schools recruiting your position. So not every school is recruiting your position, especially if you're a position player. Find schools that are recruiting your position. Again, don't just go to a camp randomly hoping that they're recruiting your position. Make sure you find out if they're recruiting your position and what their needs are in your class. Hope is not a good strategy. So you know, I see all the time. It's like again, if I'm good enough, they will find me. That's hope. Hope is how you get missed. Okay? Be proactive. Nothing wrong with hope, but you need to take action during this recruiting process to make sure that you are in a good spot and you are strategic with your approach. And again, you are proactive in putting yourself in the best possible position to play at the next level. Look at schools for the overall experience, not just baseball. Although being a student athletes, you're super busy. You're going to be in the weight room, you're going to be practicing, you're going to be traveling, you're going to have games, all that stuff. But you're going to, you're going to have a social life, right? It's important that you have that as well. It's nothing like being a regular student. But we want to make sure that you have a good overall experience and you're getting a good education as well. A good skills video is the best way for exposure. Think about this, right? The best way to get noticed, to be seen, to start getting communication going, is a good highlight video. And make sure it is a good highlight video. Let me know if you have any questions or if you would add anything down in the comments and we'll go from there. I'll see you in the next video. Take care.
