Marketing Yourself to College Coaches Pt. 1
Know what coaches want to see and show it to them.
Every college coach has a smartphone, laptop or PC therefore, marketing your athletic talents requires being familiar with technology. High school athletes must rely on marketing themselves to programs to establish communication and relationships with coaches.
Personal social media accounts: They need to be an advertisement of the great student athlete you are
Learn how to introduce yourself in-person and over the phone. Don’t depend on texting and emails as your only form of communication with a potential coach
Start a video library to showcase your skills. Considering uploading these videos to a personal YouTube page
For a more in-depth, detailed list of ways to market yourself to college coaches, purchase my 10-part video series on the College Recruiting process.
Betty Baird Kregor is an LPGA Master Teaching Professional and owner of StraightShot Inc., specializing in the DISC personality system to mentor and advise athletes of all ages and abilities.
In 2014, Kregor retired from over 27 years of teaching golf to consult athletes in the mental aspects of sport an serve as a "performance coach" for goals, scheduling, practice programs, college advising and more.
Her LPGA education in DISC profiling allows an athlete to maximize their performance with "self awareness" of their strengths and weaknesses. It is also an important tool in finding the right college fit. College athletic consulting is a service that benefits 9-12th graders in learning how to market their talents, schedule college visits and value the importance of academics.