Earning a Baseball Scholarship - Developing a Plan of Action

It is important for high school players tochange very frequently and you do not want to
formulate a systematic plan of action whenaddress your correspondence to a coach that has
targeting schools for baseball scholarships. It isbeen fired recently or moved on to another
important to be organized, and keep notes on theschool!
contact they are making.An excellent "worksheet" page is to use the
As with anything in life, you must have a plan.EXCEL program and make and make cells (boxes)
I. Type out a Listfor:
It is important to make a "workbook" for yourUniversity/School
college baseball recruiting pursuits. Once you haveHead Coach
established the top schools you're interested in (IAssistant Coach
recommend not exceeding 40 colleges) categorizeMailing Address
them by levels and ascertain the followingContact Dates for when you have emailed the
information:coaches or sentcorrespondence.
*Head Coach and Email AddressThis makes it easy to look back through your list
*Assistant Coach (Recruiting Coordinator) andon a regular basis and keep consistent contact
Email Addresswith the schools. If you have a systematic
*Physical Mailing Addressapproach is will lead to a much more effective
There are numerous websites that list collegeand efficient results. This will also keep you more
baseball coaches and their email and physicalfocused on the process as you will have a visual
mailing address. It is important to actually visit theof what steps you are taking, and what steps
athletic school website to get the most currentneed to be taken.
information. Baseball coaches and email addresses