The Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship Podcast with Brent Hanks

Welcome to Episode 343, which is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Brandon Mozley.  Brandon is an ex-professional baseball player, a ex-pro baseball scout and now the father of 2 sons, a 10 year old and a college student-athlete.  Listen to Episode 342, go to Recruit-Me.com or on your favorite podcast app, to hear about Brandon and his son Blake's baseball and recruiting background.  This episode...

Episode 342 brings you another great, 2 part, interview from a ex-baseball player, coach and scout.  Brandon Mozley, is also the Dad of 2 sons, Andrew 10 years old and Blake, a college baseball player at Nebraska.  In this episode, episode 342, part 1 of 2, Brandon gives you his background, Blake's background how he ended up a Missouri State University and the Johnson County Community College.  Br...

Episode 341 gives you 2 things I got from a great baseball coach that will help you to get to the next level.  The next level in your sport, your academics and eventually your career.   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...

Episode 340 takes you through the alphabet and gives you a helpful recruiting tip for each letter of the alphabet.  A is for Advice, B is for Basics, C is for Cast Your Net Widely and this episode covers all the letters, G for Grades, M for Marketing and U for Updates, all the way through Z for Zero, There is Zero reason to not go to Recruit-Me.com and take advantage of all the free and inexpensiv...

Episode 339 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Amy Sappington.  Amy is a Math teacher and is in her 5th year of teaching the ACT Prep Class at Ozark High School in Ozark, MO.  In this week's episode Amy and I will continue to cover many helpful ACT topics.  Amy discusses how she helps students to prepare for taking the ACT test, how scoring and super scoring i...

Welcome to Episode 338 of the Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  I had the opportunity to interview Amy Sappington about the ACT test.  Amy is a Math teacher and is in her 5th year of teaching the ACT Prep Class at Ozark High School in Ozark, MO.  This is Part 1 of a 2 part interview with Amy.  This episode will introduce Amy, give you her background and family's background.  She will explain that not...

This episode is the 9th episode in a series of Inside Looks into the NCAA, NAIA & NJCAA Websites.  Today we hit on the resources that these websites provide you for free.  This series shows off mulititudes the free websites provide.  The problem is that you can get on these websites and waste time going down a rabbit-hole.  So this episode directs you to Searching for Colleges and all the tools an...

Welcome back to the series of direct looks at the NCAA, NAIA & NJCAA websites.  After the last 2 episodes broke from this series with a year in review episode and a re-introduction to Recruit-Me episode, today's episode is the 8th in the website series.  Today we dive into the NLI or National Letter of Intent.  The NCAA.org covers the optional, but binding National Letter of Intent.  Because the N...

Happy New Year and Welcome to 2023!  The Athletic Scholarship Podcast wants to start the new year by re-introducing you to Recruit-Me.  Recruit-Me is a 1-man show with me, Brent Hanks, being the owner and CEO of Recruit-Me and the host of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  In this episode I give you my background in athletics, in college, in my career and in my family's experience in the recruitin...

The Athletic Scholarship Podcast and the Recruit-Me Education Company hope you had a great Christmas and are ready for the New Year.  Episode 334 is A Year in Review; 2022.  In this episode I go back and review the previous 51 episodes in 2022.  I hope going through each episode and briefly covering what each episode is and then bring out a key point or two in the episode.  The year of 2022 brough...

Here we are in the 7th episode in a series called An Inside Look at the NCAA, NAIA & NJCAA Websites.  Today we get a look at the new Name, Image & Likeness Policy, or NIL.  The NCAA.org, NAIA.org and NJCAA.org each have sections and webpages that introduce and cover the new NIL Policy.  This episode guides you directly to each of the websites pages to help save you time in learning about the NIL P...

This week's episode is the 6th episode in a series called An Inside Look at the NCAA, NAIA & NJCAA Websites.  This episode, episode 332 covers these websites to give you a direct look at What to Know Before You Go.  This title comes from a page of the NCAA.org website.  The purpose of this episode and this series is to save you time, money and stress as you navigate your recruiting path.  These 3...

This week's episode directs you to the Frequently Asked Questions sections of these 3 helpful websites, the NCAA.org, the NAIA.org and the NJCAA.org websites.  This the 5th episode in a series, An Inside Look at the NCAA, NAIA & NJCAA Websites.  Episode 326 covered Eligibility Centers, Episode 327 tapped into Academic Requirements, Episode 328 took you to Guides for the College-Bound Student-Athle...

Episode 330 gets you back to the series of An Inside Look at the NCAA, NAIA & NJCAA Websites.  Episode 326 covers the Eligibility Centers, episode 327 gives you Academic Requirements and episode 328 brings you the Guides for the College-Bound Student-Athlete.  Last week's episode, Episode 329, jumped out of the series for a look into what to do this fall to winter transition in your sport.  This w...

Happy Thanksgiving!  Episode 329 is a break from the series of The Inside Looks into the NCAA, NAIA & NAIA Websites.  Today I wanted to give you some information about what to do at this time of year, the transition from the Fall to the Winter sports' seasons.  This episode mainly focuses on what a Junior or Senior or a currently recruited high school student-athlete is in the recruiting process. ...

Episode 328 is the 3rd episode in a series of Looks Inside the NCAA, NAIA & NJCAA webistes.  Today we send you directly to the Guides for the College-Bound Student-Athlete on each website.  These websites are free resources that will help you in your recruiting journey.  Both the NCAA and the NAIA websites have pdf guides that are updated yearly and the NJCAA website has a page on the site that le...

This episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is the 2nd in a series of inside looks into 3 free websites provided by the NCAA, NAIA and JUCO levels of college athletic play.  Last week's episode covered the Eligibility Centers on these websites and this week's episode covers the Academic Requirements to play at each level.   The Athletic Scholarship Podcast and Recruit-Me wants to provide as m...

Episode 326 is the 1st of a series of looks into highly informational and free recruiting resources.  The NCAA.org, NAIA.org and the NJCAA.org websites are filled with helpful information about each level of play in college, about college preparation and the college experience and recruiting rules, processes and advice.  Recruit-Me an The Athletic Scholarship Podcast could just send you to those w...

Not only does this episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, episode 325, encourage the high schooler to embrace English classes during the high school career, but it reasons that your English classes can help you to get an athletic scholarship.   I go back in my high school years and tell how my College Prep English class and the teacher helped me to learn to write a research paper for college...

Episode 324 was inspired as I recently watched the Facing Nolan documentary on NetFlix.  The documentary was a 1 hour and 42 minute story about the Hall of Fame, Major League Baseball pitcher, Nolan Ryan.  Ryan first played for the New York Mets in 1966 and he played for 27 years for the Mets, the California Angels, the Houston Astros and the Texas Rangers.  I remember collecting baseball cards an...

Episode 323 was inspired by looking a Twitter one night and seeing a bunch of high school student-athletes post their committments and offers.  I was struck by the many different and obscure college names that were listed.  Colleges at all levels, JUCOs, NAIA, NCAA Division I, II & II schools.  Twitter & other social media sources can give you a name of college that you may want to put on your sch...

Episode 322 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is an introduction to 2 helpful recruiting worksheets.  Listen in and find out how the Recruit-Me College Parameters Worksheet and the Recruit-Me School List Startup Worksheet. I named this The Perfect Worksheet to Find Your Perfect College, but I mainly did that to get your attention.  You will not only get all the ways to build your parameters list...

Welcome to The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, Episode 321.  Interviews give great, hands-on information and this interview is from a recently graduated Division III football player.  My nephew, Easton Hanks, attended, graduated and played football for Westminster College in Fulton, MO.  He played for the Blue Jays for 3 years and 21 games as a Defensive Back.  His second year was drastically reduce...

Welcome to The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  This episode is a review of the recruiting tips and advice that came from episodes 318 and 319, which were Part 1 and Part 2 of an interview with Coach Josh Reynolds.  Coach Reynolds is the Scouting Director for Prep Baseball Report-Colorado.  Coach Reynolds has coached college baseball at Evansville University, Northeast Texas Community College, Kansa...

Episode 319 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is Part 2 of 2 of An Interview with Coach Josh Reynolds, the Scouting Director for Prep Baseball Report Colorado.  Last week's episode, Episode 318, was Part 1 of the interview with Coach Reynolds.  Go back and hear about what PBR provides a participant, what a college baseball coach looks for at an event, how video is super important in the recruiti...