Alex Swenson breaks down what college scouts actually look for: strength and conditioning, athleticism, stats, game performance against good teams, grades, and character. Scouts will block recruitment if academics don't meet standards, and they're watching whether you're coachable and a good teammate.
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These are the six areas college scouts are judging high school athletes on. Number one is your physicality. It's the first thing that they see now. It's on a position by position basis, but we want to be strong in the weight room. We want to be working on our strength and our conditionings. The athletes at the college level are super physical. Number two is your athleticism, your actions and your projectability. They're not expecting you to be a D1 athlete right now, but athleticism helps them project out. What does athleticism mean? Is that, hey, your hands, your feet, how smooth are you? Do you make the game game look easy? All right, Number three is your metrics and stats. It's not the end all, be all, but there's certain athletic standards that you need to meet to get to the next level, depending on the level. Number four is your game performance arguably the most important thing, Right? Because for me, I wasn't a big metrics guy. I wasn't going to absolutely wow you, but I performed really good in the game. How do you compete in in a game, especially against good competition? Number five is your academics, of course. How well are you doing in school? Is that going to hinder them from pursuing you? As a former D1 coach, Scout and recruiter at a high academic school at Georgetown, where I coach, there was players that are really liked, but I couldn't recruit them because they didn't have good academics. And then number six, last but definitely not least, is your character. How are you as a teammate? Are you coachable? Do you check all these boxes, work on them and audit yourself, if you will, of where you need to improve? Good luck.
