The Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship Podcast with Brent Hanks

This episode features an interview with Coach Josh Reynolds, Scouting Director for Prep Baseball Report(PBR) Colorado.  Coach Reynolds spent 6 years as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for Northwestern University baseball.  Last year he was the interm Head Coach for the Wildcats.  Josh Reynolds played college baseball and pitched at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, MO...

This episode, Episode 317 Track Your Comminications & 1-Page Updates is a continuation from episodes 315 & 316.  After working through the 3 Recruiting Amigos, the Introductory Email, the Player Profile & the Recruiting Questionnaire, you need to have a system to journal all of you communications, both to and from college coaches.  You will also need to track your 1-page updates that you send to c...

Episode 316 is a contiuation of Episode 315, which was The 3 Recruiting Amigos.  In Episode 315, I covered the Introductory Email, the Player Profile and the Recruiting Questionnaire.  This week I give you examples and more insight on the 3 Recruiting Amigos.  The examples come from the Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System and from our family's experience from our 2 son's recruiting journeys...

Episode 315 introduces you to the 3 Amigos of Recruiting.  The 3 amigos or friends of recruiting are: 1) the Introductory Email 2) the Player Profile 3) the Recruiting Questionnaire  Listen in and learn about the importance of each one, how they work together to get college coaches' attention and how to build each for your recruiting journey.   Click Here to join the All-New Recruit-Me Monthly New...

Episode 314 gets you 7 tasks to help you get that athletic scholarship and opportunity to play your sport in college.  Whether you are just starting your recruiting journey or have been involved and need a pick-me-up, then you will get a few, if not all 7 tasks, to do this Fall season.   Here are a few of the tasks talked about in this episode: -Prepare for & get off to a great academic start -Do...

Welcome to Episode 313 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  This week's episode takes a social media post by @coachkurzawski on Twitter.  This was a post I can across and it has a lot of truth to it and good advice.  As I read it, I started seeing many different angles to interpret the tweet.   Here is the tweet from @coachkurzawski:  Too many kids have been taught that the goal of HS sports is t...

Welcome to Episode 312 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This is week's episode, Part 2 of An Interview with Aaron Womack, Jr,  features an interview with a father of a recruited athlete, a former college athlete, a retired teacher, coach and school administrator, and a current motivational speaker and motivational coach, along with being an author and podcaster.  Aaron Womack, Jr has been and...

Welcome to Episode 311 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  The world's longest running athletic education podcast.  This is week's episode features an interview with a father of a recruited athlete, a former college athlete, a retired teacher, coach and school administrator, and a current motivational speaker and motivational coach, along with being an author and podcaster.  Aaron Womack, Jr has...

Welcome to Episode 310 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  The world's longest running recruiting education podcast.  Today's episode tells you 4 Things Not to Do in Recruiting.  These 4 Don'ts will help you to positively impact your recruitment.  This episode talks directly to the high school student-athlete, but family members will get beneficial advice, too. Listen to my interview on An Hour...

Welcome to Episode 309 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is the world's longest running recruiting education podcast.  Join me every Tuesday for 15 minutes that will change your athletic scholarship future.  This week's episode takes my past business experience in our family owned Chevrolet dealership and related how selling cars and trucks was similar to baseb...

Welcome to Episode 308 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  This episode challenges both the student-athlete and the parents to look at how Time, Ego or Money can affect your recruiting process.  Which one do you think influences you and your journey the most?   Listen and find out how Time, Ego or Money influenced my business career and how those items relate to the recruiting process.   Check o...

Welcome to Episode 307 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. I  learned many lessons in 30 years in the car business.  My father owned a Chevrolet dealership in our small town of Ozark, MO.  I started working there when I was 15 years old, washing cars, cleaning the service shop and mowing.  I started to sell cars in the summers while I was attending, then, Southwest Missouri State.  I sold my 1st...

Episode 306 is Part 2 of 2 of the interview with Mr. Chris Ford.  Chris is the father of 3 recruited athletes.  In this episode Chris and I talk about his youngest daughter, Abby, and her and the family's journey to her committment to play softball at Missouri State University.  In episode 305 we covered Zach and Kara's recruitments as Zach played 4 years of baseball at College of the Ozarks and K...

Welcome to Episode 305 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  This is Part 1 of a 2 part Interview with Chris Ford, the Father of 3 recruited athletes.  Chris and his wife, Katie, are both High School educators and their 3 children played both baseball and softball in their high school careers.   In this episode you hear about 2 of 3 kids and their recruiting experience, you will hear about the you...

Welcome to The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  This episode is a little longer than the normal 15 minutes.  I take you through the journey my son and our family took to get to the baseball team at Northwestern University.  Also, you get to see the ups and downs of the 4 years of college baseball.  You will get infomation to help you to reduce the stress and anxiety during the recruiting process and...

Welcome to The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, Episode 303, Recruit-Me vs Recruiting Services.  Listen to find out how I purchased a package from a recruiting service, only to find out that my son and I could do everything ourselves.  I didn't find Recruit-Me until after I spent $1500 on a recruiting service and I actually didn't find Recruit-Me until after my oldest son, Parker, signed his National...

Episode 302 is More Recruiting Key Points & Discussion Points. This part 2 or a continuation of episode 301.  In both of these episodes of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is bring out these points from the Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System Manual.  See the link below for Recruit-Me 3.0 System information.   Get athletic recruiting tips about Online Registeries, Eligibility Centers, Myths...

Welcome to Episisode 301 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast.  In this episode I give you Key Points and Discussion Points from the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship that is taken from the Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System.  Hear the 7 Steps and get helpful recruiting pieces of advice that will get you going on your recruiting journey.  Check out all the links below.  Take advantage of t...

300 is a big number! This episode, Episode 300, is a celebration of this big number and all the years of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast provide great recruiting education information to thousands of families through the years.   Listen in to hear some clips of past milestone episodes and also get some clips of spot-on recruiting advice.  Check out all the links below.  Take advantage of the Recr...

Episode 299 is A Breakdown of an Interview with a College Basketball Player.  Episodes 297 and 298 were part 1 and 2 of an interview with Southwest Baptist University basketball player, Quinn Nelson.  This episode takes some of the main points of the interview and breaks down and expands on how Quinn's experience on the recruiting journey can help you in your journey.  Quinn, also, gives great adv...

Episode 298 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Quinn Nelson.  Quinn is a college basketball player at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, MO.  This episode has some great advice from Quinn about the recruiting process and what he did well during his journey and what he would have done differently.  Quinn talks about questions to ask other student-athletes...

Welcome to Episode 297 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This episode is part one of a two part interview with a college basketball player Quinn Nelson. In this episode, you will get Quinn's background before and during high school, Quinn's future, his recruitment to Southwest Baptist University and how his club program and practice routine affected his recruitment. We will cover some of Quinn'...

Last week's episode, Episode 295, was It's Spring Time and it contained 4 items that high school student athletes can do this Spring to rev up their recruiting. The 4 items were turned toward the high school student-athlete, but parents need to know what's going on too.  The items were #1 Take care of academics #2 Work on your sports skills #3 Communicate with college coaches and #4 Get help from...

Welcome to Episode 295 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, It's Spring Time! In this episode you get 4 items that are essential this Spring in your recruiting process.  These 4 items, 1) Take Care of Academics 2) Work on Your Skills 3) Communicate with College Coaches 4) Get Help from a Parent or Mentor are a great way to finish off the last semester of this high school year and get ready for the...

Episode 294 is Advice From Recruit-Me Families.  This episode takes advice that student-athletes and parents have sent into Recruit-Me.  These families have used the FREE Recruiting Power Pack, have listened to The Athletic Scholarship Podcast and have purchased and used the Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System.  You will hear input and advice like Parent-Athlete Teamwork, Control of the Rec...