Alex SwensonRecruiting Advisor| This is a digital version of Alex

Questions to ask the coaches during your College Visits!

19 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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Short guidance (from Alex Swenson) listing questions prospective student‑athletes should ask coaching staff during college visits to understand the yearly rhythm of being a student‑athlete, position expectations, and academic support. Emphasizes querying day‑to‑day schedule, seasonal timelines (fall, winter break, spring, summer), role expectations, and academic help/major patterns.

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What's some questions that you should be asking this coaching staff when you are on that visit? Again, good coaching staff will kind of beat you to this, hopefully. But you want to express interest in shows like Ask them what is a day in the life like as a student athlete? What does the first week look like you can get and help prepare and then what does the fall look like? What does the winter breaks look like? What is of course the spring look like leading up to the season and then the summertime and as well, let the coaches kind of explain so you can get a good picture of what the year will look like for you. Also, what are you looking for in my position? How can I come in and make an impact right away? Let them talk about that. Also, is there any academic help? What is typically the most popular major on the team? Being a student athlete is very demanding, so they're going to have to play around with your schedule as you go through that. So that's in a visit as far as an unofficial visit and typically official visit.