Alex SwensonRecruiting Advisor| This is a digital version of Alex

3 Questions To Ask College Coaches

1 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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A short advice video by Alex Swenson aimed at high-school athletes navigating college recruiting. Swenson recommends three specific questions to ask college coaches: (1) Describe a student-athlete’s day-in-the-life across seasons (fall, winter, spring, summer); (2) Explain the coach/program’s strategy for and approach to the transfer portal each year; (3) Describe academic support available to student-athletes (tutors, advisors, etc.). The clip’s purpose is to help recruits evaluate fit when communicating with college coaches.

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Here are three questions you can consider asking a college coach to make sure it's a good fit on your end. When you're going through this college recruiting process, really right now and going forward, a lot of high school athletes and coaches are going to be communicating figuring out if this is a good fit and you want to have some questions ready to ask them because this is a big decision. Number one is as a coach, what is the day in the life like as a student athlete in their program in the fall, in the winter, in the spring, in the summer, let them explain that you visualize and see if that's fits what you're looking for. Number two, in this day and age of the transfer portal, ask them what their strategies are and how do they deal with the transfer portal each year. And number three, academically, ask them do they have any support that they provide their student athletes in the program for academics that can be tutors, advisors, all those things. Those are three questions you can consider asking. Good luck.