The Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship Podcast with Brent Hanks

Episode 268 is named Hey, High School Student; Do you want to play in college?  As I explain in this episode I was triggered to develop this episode as I watched a college football game and the announcer was saying that one of the starting quarterbacks was with his 3rd team and this was his 6th year of college football.  The 1st thought I had was, Wow! That takes a lot of dedication to play 6 year...

This episode is packed with information about NAIA and JUCO eligibility information that will help you prepare as a high school student-athlete as you get ready to go to a NAIA or Junior College.  Listen to episode 266 to get NCAA Division I, Division II and Division III information, too.  Use the handy links below in the show notes to shortcut to find helpful information.  Recruit-Me and The Athl...

This episode is covering the NCAA Eligibility requirements and many definitions of the eligibility process.  I will walk you through the NCAA.org website and cover what to during your high school freshman, sophomore, junior and senior years to setup and fulfill your high school academics to be eligible to enter college.   This episode is coming in a late on Tuesday.  We had a busy Labor Day weeken...

Episode 265 is an episode that talks about the recruiting process as we enter a new school year, Fall Season 2021.  The season brings high school sports like football, volleyball, soccer, tennis, golf and cross country.  Listen in to see what you should do if you are a freshman or a sophomore in high school.  I then cover that if you are a junior and senior what actions you can take as games and c...

This episode explains how to use statistics to help get you recruited.  You will hear from some college coaches on what is important to them when you send stats to them.  They tell us what they are looking for.   This version of the show notes is short, as I am getting this episode loaded late on Monday night.  My wife had a neck surgery at the end of the week and we had a big Project Graduation f...

Episode 263 discusses the how, the when and the where a High School Student Athlete gets Exposure to college coaches.  Getting seen by college coaches is the most essential part of getting recruited, getting an offer and getting a scholarship.   Listen and find out when getting exposure is the best time during your high school career, find out where to exposure to coaches and how to enhance that e...

Episode 262 is the final episode in a 5 part series that gives you and inside look at my youngest son's, Sutton's, recruitment and the 6 steps that him and I navigated from the Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System.  Today's episode covers the last 2 steps of the Recruit-Me 3.0 System.  Step 5 is how to track your communications with colleges and coaches and Step 6 is how and when to send upd...

This week's episode covers the Recruiting Questionnaire.  Just about every sport, every college team has an online recruiting questionnaire to fill out.  The Recruit-Me process suggests that the High School Student-Athlete create his or her own Personal Recruiting Questionnaire and send it to all the schools on their list.  Remember, Step 1 was to Build Your School List.  Step 2 to Write a Great I...

This week's episode covers the Player Profile.  The Player Profile can be the 1 resource that can set you apart from 100s of other recruits.  Go to Recruit-Me.com to download the Free Recruiting Power Pack and see the Player Profile. Check out the new Hot Summer Special on the Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System.  Click below to get more information.  You get step by step instruction on whe...

Episode 259 is the 2nd of a series that will cover in detail what Sutton, my youngest son, and our family is going through currently in his college sports recruitment.  Sutton wants to play baseball in college and get that experience along with his college education.  Sutton is entering his senior year of high school and like 1000s of other student-athletes across the US and the world, the last 2...

Episode 258 is the 1st of a series that will cover in detail what Sutton, my youngest son, and our family is going through currently in his college sports recruitment.  Sutton wants to play baseball in college and get that experience along with his college education.  Sutton is entering his senior year of high school and like 1000s of other student-athletes across the US and the world, the last 2...

Filling out and registering on the appropriate NCAA, NAIA and NJCAA Eligibility Centers are often overlooked and not understood as a step of the recruiting process.  Here in Episode 257 of the Athletic Scholarship Podcast, I provide you with links to find the Eligibility Centers and what to expect when you start to fill out all the information needed.  I also tell you why you need to fill out the...

Episode 256 is an interview with a college student-athlete, my son, Parker Hanks.  Parker is entering his senior year academically at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.  I interviewed Parker a year ago on Episode 211.  I invite you to click on the All Episodes link below and listen to that episode.  Today, Parker and I talk about some of the challenges of the last 2 years with COVID, w...

Episode 255 brings up the issue of coaching changes and how they effect a student-athletes recruitment.  The main reasons I wanted to bring this up is that coaching changes happen very often and I do not want you to be surprised when it does during your recruitment or after you are playing at that college. There are ways to handle a coaching change and use it to your advantage.  Listen to this epi...

Thank you very much for a fabulous 1st year of my ownership of Recruit-Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.   This episode is a 1 year review of that 1st year.  I briefly tell you about how I became the owner and CEO of Recruit-Me. Then throughout the remainder of Episode 254, I let you know of some of the free and inexpensive resources that Recruit-Me offers you and I also bring you a brief d...

This episode, Episode 253, of the Athletic Scholarship Podcast is a hodgepodge of information about recruiting and about college life.   The recruiting information is a reflection of what my family is doing right now with Sutton.  Sutton is going to be a Senior, Class of 2022, at Ozark High School in Ozark, Missouri.  because of COVID roadblocks over the last year, we are now ready to start send h...

Part 2 of 2 of An Interview with Coach Rand Chappell is packed with helpful recruiting tips and insights.  Coach Chappell is the Head Basketball Coach at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, KS.  In Episode 251, Part 1 of this interview we cover the differences of the different levels of basketball play and recruiting, the COVID effect, JUCO advantages and scholarships and much more....

I love doing interviews for The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  Not that I am really good at interviewing, but the guests give hands-on and very useful recruiting information to you.  Episode 251 is an interview with the Head Coach of Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, KS.  Coach Rand Chappell has coached for over 30 years at the Junior College, NAIA, Division 2 and Division 1 level...

The Athletic Scholarship Podcast has hit a milestone.  The 250th episode is quite an accomplishment.  In this episode I will take this 15 minutes to honor and reflect on how the Athletic Scholarship Podcast started and give you a taste of some great information that Jon Fulger passed on in episodes 1-203.  Jon Fulger is the founder of Recruit-Me and the Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  I took over i...

Episode 249 includes 6 Psychological Challenges you might encounter in college.  There are probably many other subjects I could speak to, but these 6 came to mind.  These psychological challenges can effect both the college student-athlete and the family of the college player.  They can actually have some effect on your decision on a college and the sports program you choose.  As I say in the podc...

Attributes.  What are attributes? There are many ways to use the word, this episode, Episode 248, uses the Oxford Dictionary definition: a quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of some or something. So you are going to use your attributes and achievements to brag on yourself to college coaches.  This is an awkward part of the recruiting process, but telling coaches about...

Episode 247 is an interview I did for a podcast call Burger Bites.  Rance Burger is the editor for my local newspaper, the Christian County Headliner News, and is the director of communications for the Grip-N-Rip Baseball League.  The Grip-N-Rip Baseball League is one of the premier wood bat leagues for players ages 21 and older.  Rance does play-by-play, helps promote the league and also help to...

Episode 246 quickly runs through what you need to do now to get a college coach's attention at the end of your Junior or Senior year of High School.  After the COVID delays or cancelling of sports season in both high school and college there is going to be a rush as this high school season ends and the summer off-seasons begin.  College coaches may soon get to come to tournaments and showcases and...

Episode 245 in Part 2 of an Interview with Cameron Wright.  Last week's episode, Epi 244, introduced Cameron.  Cameron gives us a Track and Field prospective from a former All-American and Olympic High Jumper and a former college T & F coach.  Please go back and listen to episode 244 as we discussed T & F team sizes, the number of T & F scholarships that are available, how JUCO & International stu...

Episode 244 of the The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is Part 1 of 2 of an interview with Cameron Wright.  Cameron and his family moved to Ozark, MO about 2 years ago and I have got to know them through basketball, baseball and golf.  Cameron's middle child is the same age as my youngest son and they both play high school baseball and basketball together.  As I have got to know Cameron I found out h...