The Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship Podcast with Brent Hanks

This part 2 of a 2 part interview with the father a college rower.  Aaron Boutwell, an old friend from my college days at the then Southwest Missouri State, His daughter, Molly, in a rower for the Indiana University Hoosiers.  Listen to last week's episode, episode 392 for the first part of this interview.  This week Aaron and I cover Molly's rowing season and training, how scholarships and perks...

Welcome to Episode 392 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  I get into the world of women's college rowing.  This is part 1 of a 2 part interview with Aaron Boutwell.  Aaron is the father of a current college athlete that is on the Indiana University rowing team.  In this episode you will hear about Aaron and his connection to athletics in college athletics and how athletics affected his job care...

Episode 391 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is the 4th episode in a 4 part series about what each year of high school student-athlete should be doing here in January of 2024.  Use your freshman year to prepare for the recruiting journey and to do research on both recruiting and research on colleges and college sports programs.  Topics like: Academics Scholarships Creating good habits  Campus D...

Today's episode, Episode 390 is the 3rd episode in a 4 part series.  Episode 390 is called New Year Recruiting for the 2026 Grad which covers the Sophomore year of the 2024 high school student-athlete.  The Sophomore year is a vital year for a potential college student-athlete to prepare for the most recruitable time, your Junior year.  The Sophomore year is filled with research about colleges, co...

Episode 389 is a 30 minutes long interview with Chance Potts.  Chance is an ex-college athlete, the father of college athletes, a coach, a business-person and owner of One More Benefit, a Mental Fitness business.  Today we hit on Chance's recruiting experiences and what mental fitnes is and how it helps you in your sport, life and recruiting.   Chance is a frequent guest on Coach John Perry's podc...

Episode 388 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is the 2nd episode in a 4 part series about what a high school student-athlete should or can do in there Junior year of the 2024 school year to get recruited.  The Junior year is typically "Go Time" for most high school athletes in the recruiting journey.  Most athlete's, especially boys, are hitting or starting their physical maturation and athletes...

Welcome to the New Year of 2024!  Episode 387 begins the year with a look at what a Senior in high school, a 2024 Grad, should be doing to get recruited in their Senior year.  Whether you have been in the recruiting process or are figuring out you can and want to play your sport in college, you will get vital information to help you on your recruiting journey.   Listen to Episode 387, New Year Rec...

Merry Christmas to all The Athletic Scholarship Podcast and Recruit Me families.  Today's episode is a review of all the 2023 episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  Please, go back and listen to all 51, 2023 episodes.  You can Like or Subscribe on your favorite podcast app or go to Recruit-Me.com to listen to every 15 minute, weekly podcast.  The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is the World's...

Welcome to Episode 385 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  In the recruiting world there are many, many, many different voices you can get inidated with.  There are tools and services that can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, but there are tools, like Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast that are free or inexpensive.  No matter what tools you pick the key ingredient your recruit...

Episode 384 is part 2 of a 2 part series covering a recruiting resources, The Virtual Dugout App.  Listen to Episode 383 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast for Part 1 that introduces you to the Virtual Dugout App and the College Recruiting links on this App.  This episode covers the remainder of the tools that the Virtual Dugout app provides for free.  This resource is mainly for baseball, but it...

Recruit Me continually looks for free and inexpensive resources to help you get recruited and to get an athletic scholarship.  I came across a app called Virtual Dugout.  The Virtual Dugout app is a platform for high school baseball players offering honest information on college recruiting, showcases, equipment and travel teams.  This app caters to baseball, but there are some resources on the app...

Episode 382 is going give you an expanded look into the key points found in the interview with an ex-college baseball player and a current professional baseball player, Shawn Goosenberg.  Shawn was a teammate of my son Parker at Northwestern University and now plays in the Chicago White Sox organization.  Go back and listen to Episodes 380 and 381 to catch part 1 and 2 of the interview that covers...

Today you get Part 1 of a 2 part interview with an ex-college baseball player and now a member of the Chicago White Sox organization.  Shawn Goosenberg finished his summer with the Birmingham Barons, the Double A affiliate of the White Sox.   Shawn moved from the Single A Winston-Salem team to the Birmingham team at the end of the season.  Shawn was a teammate of my older son Parker at Northwester...

Welcome to Episode 379 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, The World's Longest Running Recruiting Education Podcast. This week I discuss The Fall Sports to Winter Sports Transition 2023.  I will cover: What a Potential College Student-Athlete should be doing as a High School Freshman or Sophomore if you just finished you main sport's season What a Potential College Student-Athlete should be doing...

Anxiety and panic effects a majority of recruits and their families at some time during the journey.  It could be caused by not knowing when or how to start the process.  Or, that college coaches are not hanging out in the stands watching you, or, that you are not getting recruited by the college or the level of colleges you want to play for.   Back on October 22, 2019, Jon Fugler, the founder of...

I came across EducatingAthletes.org, a 501C3, Non-Profit organization that helps direct potential student-athletes on all aspects of football recruiting and recruiting in general.  The video I first saw was a young man in a Northwestern polo talking about their recruiting plan.  This certainly caught my eye since my oldest son, Parker, played baseball for Northwestern from 2018 to 2022.   Listen t...

I decided to go back and find a past episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast that Jon Fuglar, the founder of Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, had published and give you a fresh look at a recruiting subject.  Jon's wisdom about recruiting over the past 20 years has been very useful throughout the years and as you will hear it is useful today.  Go to Recruit-Me.com to listen to a...

This episode, Episode 375, is the 2nd part of a 2 part series that covers 25 General Mistakes When Choosing a College.  This series was taken from an article I found on the Collegebasics.com website.  The article is named, 25 Common Mistakes in Choosing a College.  This article listed common mistakes made by students when picking a college.  These are mistakes if a decision is made based on only 1...

Episode 374 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is taken from the collegebasics.com website and a article called 25 Common Mistakes in Choosing a College.  I was searching for common reasons to pick a college, but this article caught my eye.  This episode covers the first 12 of the 25 Common Mistakes listed by collegebasics.com that a student makes if they just consider 1 or 2 subjects as reasons...

Today's episode comes from NCAA.org, NAIA.org and NJCAA.org websites.  We walk through Recruiting Calendars.  You do not have to memorize your sport or your preferred level of play's Recruiting Calendar, but by knowing where to find it and to know the basics about your sport's Recruiting Calendar you will save yourself some stress by knowing whether college coaches can contact you.  Learn about Qu...

Welcome to Episode 372 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  This episode is review of the interview with Karl Barkley from D3Direct.  I take out some of the key points the came out of episodes 370 and 371.  Listen to this 14-plus minute episode and hear more about these key points: Earning minutes Setting parameters Using your recruiting resources Social Media positives and negatives for recruiti...

Episode 371 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is an interview with D3Direct's founder Karl Barkley.  This is Part 2 of a 2 part interview that will introduce Karl, @D3Direct and the NCAA Division III level of college sports.  Karl covers a social media gameplan, when to use social media, what to post on social media.  The he covers positives of D3 sports and the different levels of D3 sports.  L...

Episode 370 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is an interview with D3Direct's founder Karl Barkley.  This is Part 1 of a 2 part interview that will introduce Karl, @D3Direct and the NCAA Division III level of college sports.  Karl covers his recruiting journey to Swarthmore College, a D3 college basketball program, and we start to cover using social media in your recruiting journey.  Listen in t...

The whole goal of Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is to give you many, many free and inexpensive recruiting resources to help you to make the "right fit" college choice for you.  Episode 369 takes you through Steps 5 and 7 of the 7 Steps to Athletic Scholarship, found in the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System manual.  Steps 1 through 4 and Step 6 covers how to find the righ...