A short YouTube video by Alex Swenson offering five practical ways for athletes to increase exposure to college coaches during recruiting: (1) craft concise, standout outreach emails with video links, (2) post on social media (1–2x/week) to showcase skills, (3) send short direct messages to coaches, (4) follow coaches on social media to trigger profile views, and (5) attend games, showcases, camps, and recruiting events that include decision-makers. Emphasizes concise communication and maximizing exposure to the right coaches.
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Here are five ways to help your exposure and get interest from college coaches in your sport going through this recruiting process. Number one, your communication and outreach. Every college coach checks their email multiple times a day. How are you standing out? And if you've done this in the past and you just haven't got any traction, you're probably doing some old tactics that just don't work anymore. You need to make sure you have a standout subject line. You need to have your email short and concise, not long, not your life story. Short and concise with the top information that the college coaches want with video. Okay, Number two, social media. This is a great way to showcase your best qualities as a player in your sport and get that out to college coaches in an efficient way. Posting one to two times a week, especially in season, can go a long way. And on top of that, which is number three, direct messaging college coaches. Keeping this short and concise, similar to your email, goes a long way. We've had a lot of traction with, with our athletes, whether it's email, social media, DMs, and then also following these college coaches on social media. This is number four. And this is underutilized. All right, following college coaches is a massive, really notification for those college coaches to help your exposure. What do I mean by that? Every time you follow a college coach, they get notified that you are following them. They click on your profile. Do you have a standout profile on your social media? Whether that's on X or whether it's on Instagram. Now that's getting more popular in recruiting. That is really important. And then lastly, number five, we gotta get in front of these college coaches eventually. Whether that's at games, showcases, recruiting events, combines, camps. You just need to make sure that you're going to the right ones with the right college coaches and to maximize exposure going through that. Because if you're getting in front of the wrong coaches that aren't the decision makers, it doesn't really matter. Maximize your exposure. Put your name out there. Because college coaches can't recruit players they don't know about. Good luck.
