| With the start of the new high school season, it's | | | | making a big mistake. Most high school coaches |
| time to get serious about college baseball | | | | don't get active in promoting their players to |
| recruiting 2009. If your goal is to make it to the | | | | colleges. This happens because many of them |
| college level, you have take responsibility for your | | | | really don't understand the recruiting and |
| own recruitment. Don't leave your recruiting hopes | | | | scholarship process themselves. Even coaches |
| to your high school coach, unless you like being | | | | make the mistake of falsely assuming a player will |
| disappointed! | | | | be recruited by someone if they are good enough |
| The first thing you need to know about college | | | | to play at some level of college baseball. |
| baseball recruiting 2009 is that it's a very | | | | The biggest problem is most athletes do not |
| competitive process. It always has been, and it | | | | properly market and promote themselves to |
| always will be. There are thousands of kids playing | | | | college coaches. If you have the talent to play at |
| baseball all around the world who are eligible for | | | | some level of college competition, you must take |
| baseball scholarships. You must be considered a | | | | the initiative to market and promote yourself |
| well above average high school player and have | | | | during the college baseball recruiting 2009 season. |
| the talent to play baseball at the college level. | | | | You need to send letters and emails to college |
| Beyond the competition, some players struggle to | | | | coaches and let them know about you and how |
| get recruited because they play at a small high | | | | you can help their baseball program be successful. |
| school or in a region not known for producing | | | | If getting noticed during the college baseball |
| baseball talent. If you find yourself in one of these | | | | recruiting 2009 season is your goal, you can make |
| situations, you can still be recruited, but you have | | | | it a reality. You don't have to be an elite level |
| to take some steps to make sure your name | | | | player that every college coach in America |
| and baseball talents are known by college coaches. | | | | already knows about. You can simply be a very |
| Are you depending completely on your high school | | | | good player who becomes excellent at promoting |
| coach to promote you during the college baseball | | | | and marketing yourself. |
| recruiting 2009 season? If you are, you are | | | | |