When should you first contact college coaches by email?

Alex SwensonRecruiting Advisor| This is a digital version of Alex

Here’s the best time to contact college coaches. #college #collegesports

21 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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Alex Swenson advises student-athletes to proactively contact college coaches rather than waiting to be found. He gives a specific recommendation to email coaches during weekday mornings — between 8:00 AM and 11:00 AM on Tuesday through Thursday — because coaches often do administrative work and check email during those times; weekends are less ideal due to games and practices.

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Between 8:00 AM and 11:00 AM, Tuesday through Thursday.

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Hey, when's the best time to contact college coaches? I'm gonna get really specific on this one because you should be contacting college coaches. If you're not, then you're just hoping to be found, and that's a bad strategy. That's how you get missed and don't play at the next level. So you should be reaching out and contacting these college coaches by email at first between 8am and 11am Tuesday through Thursday. Why is that the case? Because that's usually the time that they're doing their admin work and checking emails, and the weekends are playing games, could be playing games, practicing, et cetera. So during the week.