The Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship Podcast with Brent Hanks

Episode 418 covers the 5th step of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship.  The 5th step is Track Your Communications.  You need to have a plan and create a habit to make sure you collect all the information you need to make a "right fit" choice of the college and the athletic program you want to commit to.  Tracking your communications will keep you from getting confused about what you and a coll...

Episode 417 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, the world's longest running athletic recruiting education weekly podcast, gives you Step 4 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Build Your Own Recruiting Questionnaire.  My name is Brent Hanks and I'm the host of The Atlhletic Scholarship Podcast and the owner of Recruit Me, LLC.  Go to Recruit-Me.com for more information.   This week's episod...

Episode 416 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is Step 3 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Create Your 1 Sheet Player Profile.  You will get the chapter of the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System manual that walks you through the process to create your own Player Profile, which is your resume.  This document is the key to getting a college coach's attention and is the way you know...

Episode 415 is Step 2 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship and it walks you through why writing a great Introductory Email is a critical part of your recruiting process and then gives you a model of how to write it.  Key points from this episode are: Send a personal email to coaches Your email should be brief.  Write it as a 1 page and with just a few paragraghs.  Then you can copy and paste...

Welcome to Epi 414 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  This is the 1st of 7 episodes that will cover the 7 Steps to An Athletic Scholarship from the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System.  This episode is a little shorter than normal and is a little later than normal.  I'm in Canada and my oldest son, Parker is getting married today!  There's alot going on. :) Click Here to join the Recruit...

Welcome to Episode 413, the 2nd part of the Recruiting Weekly Tips. This week you get the recruiting tips that will hit social media on weeks 36 through 52.  Quick tips about recruiting and your recruiting journey like, information on showcases and ID camps, how to build a recruiting team, how grades effect your recruitment and how Recruit Me is for all levels and all sports.   Click Here to join...

Episode 412 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast gives you 35 short pieces of recruiting advice that I will soon publish on Recruit Me's social media sites.  Dig in and pick out the tips that will help you to get recruited. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter.  Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.     Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System FREE...

Episode 411 gives you insight into how the transfer portal effects the high school student-athlete. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter.  Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.     Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System FREE Recruiting Power Pack QRRecruiter.com   promo code RecruitMe5 CollegeCoachesOnline.com   promo code RM123 Listen to Past E...

Welcome to episode 410, of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. In past, The Athletic Scholarship Podcast episodes I have referenced the cornerstone of Recruit Me, the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System.  The Recruit Me 3.0 System includes a 200 plus page manual and includes a workbook and worksheets. I have covered the Seven Steps to an Athletic Scholarship in various past episodes, and also...

Episode 409 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is a review of the interview with Scott McCowan from episodes 407 and 408.  Scott, the father of a current D1 women's basketball player, gave us a look into his daughter's and his family's experience through Raegan's recruitment and her first year of college and college basketball at Western Illinois University.  Today's episode goes back and grabs a...

Episode 408 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Scott McCowan.  Scott is a past college basketball and football player, a past college basketball coach and is presently the father of a college basketball player.  His daughter, Raegan, just finished her freshman year on the Western Illinios Lady Leathernecks basketball team.  WIU is a NCAA D1 and Ohio Valley Con...

Episode 407 is Part 1 of a 2 part interview with a friend and past competitor from our high school days.  Scott McCowan is now an insurance agent in Lebanon, Missouri, but also the father of a current women's NCAA Division 1 basketball player and he is a former NAIA level basketball and football player himself.  Scott also coached college basketball after he graduated from college.  In this 1st pa...

Welcome to Episode 406 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast has goals of providing student-athletes and their families with as many free and expensive recruiting resources and advice sources as possible. Go to Recruit-Me.com to get started with Recruit Me by getting the FREE Recruiting Power Pack and then checkout the $39 Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scho...

Welcome to Episode 405 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.   Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter.  Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education.  Back in September of 2023 I interviewed Karl Barkley from D3Direct.  Episodes 370 & 371 gave you a look it NCAA Division III sports and recruiting.  Karl and D3Direct also have a podcast, The Student Athlete Sessions Podcast....

Episode 404 compares an article from Indeed.com called How to Get the Job You Want in 8 Steps.  I take the 8 steps in the article and compare it to the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship that is found in the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System.  Listen to how Indeed's 8 steps compare to Recruit Me's 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship. Select the Right Schools to Contact Write a Great Introd...

Episode 403 has some inspiration from Episode 401.  It made me think of reasons and advantages a student-athlete gets from playing a sport in college.  I go back to my college sport experience and also lean on the experiences during Parker's, my older son's, 4 years at Northwestern playing baseball for the Wildcats and my younger son's, Sutton's, current status as an outfielder for the Columbia Co...

Episode 402 is a deep look into how many opportunities are out there for you to play your sport in college.  I my observations through my college experience, my older son's college experience as a college baseball pitcher at Northwestern University and my younger son's current experience as a outfielder at Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri bring me to a conclusion that there is a place for yo...

A week ago I got a text from a father of a student-athlete that reminded me of Myth #1 About Athletic Scholarships.  Myth #1 is one of ten myths listed and answered in the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System Manual.  Go to Recruit-Me.com to get access to the ecruit Me 3.0 System for only $39.  Myth #1 listed in the Recruit Me 3.0 is: If my child is good enough, the college coaches will find...

Welcome to the historic 400th episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  The Athletic Scholarship Podcast has been a weekly recruiting education podcast since 2015.  The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is the world's longest running recruiting education podcast.  You get a peek into the Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast as I continue to host the podcast and to provide student-athlete...

Welcome to Episode 399 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  We are on the doorstep of our 400th episode and this episode is a look back of one of the past episodes.  The past episode in review is Episode 37 and is titled How Do You Rise to the Top.  Jon Fuglar, the original host and founder of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast brings you 3 helpful points that were helpful in 2017 and are helpful t...

Bet on yourself has a lot of angles in your recruitment.  This episode was inspired by me listening to another podcast called the Never Stop Getting Better Podcast hosted by a local football head coach at Nixa High School, Coach John Perry.  Episode 78 of the Never Stop Getting Better Podcast was an interview between Coach Perry and the head football coach at the University of Missouri, Coach Eli...

Welcome to Episode 397 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  One of the most important, challenging and fun parts of the recruiting process is building your college school list to contact.  Recruit Me's philosophy is that you need to recruit colleges to recruit you.  There are free and inexepensive resources out there to help you to build your college school list and then do research on those coll...

Welcome to Epi 396 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  Here is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Wayne Woosley, the owner of QR Recruiter.  Go to QRRecruiter.com.  In this episode we cover the technologies affliated with QR Recruiter, the future of QR Recruiter and the many ways QR Recruiter helps you get recruited.   Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter.   Get monthly tidbits of...

Welcome to Epi 395 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  This episode was delayed from last week.  I missed publishing the episode because I was on a trip to Argentina and my computer would not power on, either on the plane or at the house we stayed in.  I had planned on finishing the publishing on the 11 hour flight down there.  So here is Part 1 of a 2 part interview with Wayne Woosley, the owne...

Welcome to Episode 394 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  The Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System is the cornerstone to the Recruit Me business and to your recruiting success.  Today I give you the older follow up information after you purchased the Recruit Me 3.0 System.  These follow ups give you some great recruiting advice and tips. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newslette...