- Jul 9, 2010
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I was talking to a good friend tonight, who's DD is a jr in HS. She has been talking to a D1 school for a few months, been to some camps there, etc. Their recruitment of her has really ramped up over the past month. Last week, they asked her to come to campus to meet with the Head Coach. They are going next week, and I expect an offer is forthcoming (based upon the whole of her interaction with them over the summer and fall).
As we were talking, I asked him how it felt to be the parent of a recruited athlete. It was still a little new to him yet, and he still isn't comfortable thinking about it.
That made me start to think - when did you really know that your DD 1) had a shot to play in college, and 2) that it was real, and she was actually going to have the opportunity to live that dream.
For some people, I'm sure it happens it early. For the rest of us, it's probably more of a long process.
For me, I don't think I really started thinking she had a shot until I was talking to a coach that was watching her at a tourney in Fall of her jr year. I was very surprised that he had her name circled on the roster. I was talking to him about one of our other players, and we asked me about my DD, it took a second to register (he asked by her number, and I thought I heard him wrong).
Then, as we went through the ups and downs of the recruiting process, talking to different schools, coming close but missing at some, I really started to have doubts. Then, as new shcools showed up and started to talk to her, I started to think she had a chance again.
I think it only became real when we were on campus, at the SB field, and the coach asked me if I was comfortable with him being her coach for the next 4 years. He then asked her if she was ready to commit. She looked at me said "Dad, this is it, this is where I want to go". Hearing her say that is when it became real.
What's your story?
As we were talking, I asked him how it felt to be the parent of a recruited athlete. It was still a little new to him yet, and he still isn't comfortable thinking about it.
That made me start to think - when did you really know that your DD 1) had a shot to play in college, and 2) that it was real, and she was actually going to have the opportunity to live that dream.
For some people, I'm sure it happens it early. For the rest of us, it's probably more of a long process.
For me, I don't think I really started thinking she had a shot until I was talking to a coach that was watching her at a tourney in Fall of her jr year. I was very surprised that he had her name circled on the roster. I was talking to him about one of our other players, and we asked me about my DD, it took a second to register (he asked by her number, and I thought I heard him wrong).
Then, as we went through the ups and downs of the recruiting process, talking to different schools, coming close but missing at some, I really started to have doubts. Then, as new shcools showed up and started to talk to her, I started to think she had a chance again.
I think it only became real when we were on campus, at the SB field, and the coach asked me if I was comfortable with him being her coach for the next 4 years. He then asked her if she was ready to commit. She looked at me said "Dad, this is it, this is where I want to go". Hearing her say that is when it became real.
What's your story?
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