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Coaches interaction: It's an essential civility to answer every one of the requests you get from a school, whether or not you're not enthused about the program.
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Start as early as possible: Start approaching coaches and schools early, but don't rush. Create a perfect profile to showcase your achievement, ranking, etc.
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Feature/abilities video: Highlighting videos are the best way to land on a coach recruiting radar. The video doesn't need to be professional, create a relevant video to pitch to recruiters.
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Easy to recruit: Recruiters should have easy access to your profile, which should include your achievements, complete recruiting profile, contact information, entrance exam scores, etc.
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Focus on yourself: Your ranking/rating will surely help you get noticed by coaches. Now you need to focus on your coming years as your college and recruiters look for the same.
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Campus visit: Take a campus visit, get all your questions to your coach, and check with the college programs. Look around the campus, and ask about academics and the admissions process.
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Follow up: Just after your visit, the second step will be follow-up. Even if you haven’t made up your mind, a post-visit follow-up is a good way to keep all your options open with every coach.
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Recruitment guide / services: There are multiple tennis recruitment services that provide you with the college recruitment guide with expert consultation.
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Social media promotion: Social media has a meaningful impact on a tennis player's recruitment to college or finding sponsors. Social media promotions can be used in advocating your profile as a prospective athlete.
Anirban Dutta
Anirban Dutta is the Co-Founder of Tennis Wizard. He is a former NCAA DI College player and assistant coach, minority owner of tennis club & academy, USTA TX board member, USTA National Pro Circuit committee member. He has two teenagers playing ITF juniors.
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