If you are a high school baseball player, then, needless to say, you dream of one day playing baseball for a college team.
It is the dream of any, and every high school athlete to compete at the college level, and one day, hopefully play for a professional team.
Getting into a college team can often mean the difference between shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars on tuition, or getting a free ride on a sports scholarship.
College baseball recruiting, therefore, is a big deal that can make or break lives.
Unless you are a star player, you will have to work hard to make the college coaches stand up and take notice.
Star players, through their various exploits, happen to get noticed by coaches automatically.
But for the rest, it is an uphill battle getting the coach's attention.
When it comes to college baseball recruiting, it is imperative that you start early.
Don't wait until the fag end of your junior year to contact college coaches; hit them up as early as your sophomore year.
You can really be never too early in letting your name known among college scouts.
Your high school coaches are often the worst people to rely on when getting into a college baseball team.
They often have little influence on a college coach's decision, and little motivation to work for you in contacting them.
Do yourself a favor and contact coaches yourself.
Make sure that your athletic resume is up to date.
Complement it with a set of videos from some of your best games.
A resume is just a sheet of paper with some statistics and words on it; a video, on the other hand, is actual proof of your athletic abilities.
If you threw a 95 m.
p.
h.
ball in the last game, make sure that you have a video recording of it (get a cheap video camera and hand it to one of your buddies during a game).
At the end of the day, college baseball recruiting is a lot about marketing yourself correctly.
How well you do this will determine how successful you are in getting a good scholarship to a top college.