{"id":4545,"date":"2011-08-02T13:55:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T19:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2011-08-02T13:55:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T19:55:05","slug":"the-importance-of-freshmen-entering-the-recruiting-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/the-importance-of-freshmen-entering-the-recruiting-process\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Freshmen Entering the Recruiting Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4547\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4547\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nicolette-Drost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4547\" title=\"Nicolette Drost\" src=\"\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nicolette-Drost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicolette Drost is a 5&#39;11&quot; volleyball player and rising sophomore. Think she&#39;ll have a recruiting advantage? Yep.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Put simply, for freshmen there is big advantage to entering the recruiting process as soon as high school begins.\u00a0 There are limitations, yes, but the benefits far outweigh those restrictions.\u00a0 Here are the benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Being recognized earlier.<\/strong>\u00a0 The first part of the recruiting process is to be recognized by college coaches and the earlier the better.\u00a0 With each passing day, a freshman prospect somewhere has a chance to steal the spotlight.\u00a0\u00a0Being in that position is more desirable than being unknown.\u00a0 That&#8217;s\u00a0just common sense.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Being\u00a0evaluated multiple times.\u00a0<\/strong> In early\u00a0allows\u00a0freshmen to be seen and evaluated over and again by college coaches.\u00a0 They can watch freshmen progress and get a feel for where they started and\u00a0how far they&#8217;ve come.\u00a0 Knowing this, most coaches will have the good sense to then predict\u00a0a\u00a0prospect&#8217;s learning curve, physical\u00a0upsides and\u00a0mental makeup.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Landing on more recruiting lists.<\/strong>\u00a0 The longer a\u00a0prospect waits to enter the process, the\u00a0fewer coaches that will see them perform in person.\u00a0 Time collapses the process in no one&#8217;s favor.\u00a0 It stands to reason that as time goes on and coaches move in and out of\u00a0various positions while adding new assistant coaches that the\u00a0eventual total number of coaches that have a chance to see a prospect rises significantly.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Visiting more campuses and watching more coaches and teams.<\/strong>\u00a0 As college recruit in search of the right program to join ideally wants to visit as many campuses as possible, see a large number of college teams play and observe lots of coaches do their thing.\u00a0 Waiting shortens that exploration process leaving decision making less optimum.<\/li>\n<li>Making the best final decision.\u00a0 Waiting puts prospects in the unenviable position of having fewer choices from potentially less palatable options.\u00a0 A freshman has the time to properly navigate the recruiting process.\u00a0 Years quickly turn into days and not enough of them when juniors, late in the school year, and seniors at any time of year decide to finally get going.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At NSR, we give freshmen a jump on the recruiting process every day.\u00a0 Over a period of four years they may get attention from hundreds of college coaches at every competitive level and from every size school.\u00a0 In this position, ninth graders have the luxury of time to explore, prod and learn instead of having to cram it all into six, twelve or eighteen months when catch-up is more the rule than the exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put simply, for freshmen there is big advantage to entering the recruiting process as soon as high school begins.\u00a0 There are limitations, yes, but the benefits far outweigh those restrictions.\u00a0 Here are the benefits: Being recognized earlier.\u00a0 The first part of the recruiting process is to be recognized by college coaches and the earlier the &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/the-importance-of-freshmen-entering-the-recruiting-process\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}