February 23, 2022
Throughout the spring, Headfirst and our partners and friends over at Diamond College Advisory Team (DCAT) are once again hosting a series of webinars on the high-academic recruiting process. As we record and post each part, we’ll update this blog post with the video. Take a look through to watch all three parts below.
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February 1, 2022
With the spring fast approaching, it’s time for student-athletes to put the finishing touches on their hard work this off-season and cross off a few items in their college search process. From visiting campuses and building out targeted school lists to contacting college coaches and preparing for standardized tests, check out a few items that
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October 3, 2021
Each year, we host over 2500 student-athletes and their families and speak with thousands more via email and phone. From September through November, the most frequently asked question we get as we speak with student-athletes and families has to do with the timing of our Headfirst Southeast camp in November: what are the types of
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June 9, 2021
This spring, we were excited to have college softball BACK! Seeing our Honor Roll partner programs in action (and some of them making runs deep into the postseason at the D3 and D1 levels) was a fantastic return to the spring season. With this excitement, in late April we “sat down” with some of our
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March 23, 2021
As a prospective college student-athlete, you’re not just pursuing recruiting exposure for exposure’s sake – you’re looking for results in your recruiting! Recruiting and exposure opportunities are only good in their capacity to get you to your goals of college softball. You’ve seen the lines and promises everywhere: “Be seen by college coaches”, “Play in
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March 20, 2021
With the spring (albeit a different-looking spring than years past) fast approaching, it’s time for student-athletes to put the finishing touches on their hard work this off-season and cross off a few items in their college search process. From (virtually) visiting campuses and building out targeted school lists to contacting college coaches and preparing for
Read More »March 9, 2021
On March 2, we wrapped up a three-part webinar series on high-academic recruiting – and all the recorded webinars are now available via video links below, as well as brief outlines of what topics each video covers. Part 1: Approaching the High-Academic Recruiting Process In Part 1, we give an overview of
Read More »November 11, 2020
We recently hosted a webinar for student-athletes and families to discuss the current state of high-academic recruiting. The impacts of the ongoing NCAA Division 1 dead period, as well as many schools implementing school-specific travel restrictions for coaches and staff members means that the recruiting landscape looks different today than it ever has before,
Read More »September 27, 2020
With the challenges of the current recruiting landscape – ongoing and extended NCAA Division 1 dead period, league and college-specific recruiting restrictions impacting schools of all divisions, gathering and travel limitations and more – it is very tempting for underclassmen to power down their recruiting and wait for things to be normal again, for the
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September 23, 2020
Due to the ongoing – and extended – NCAA Division 1 recruiting dead period, Division 1 programs are unable to conduct face-to-face recruiting, and haven’t been able to since mid-March. While Division 3 programs aren’t bound by the same NCAA dead period, college and league-specific guidelines precluding off-campus or out-of-state travel means that many of
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