This is the podcast for parents and athletes that explores every aspect of recruiting and athletic scholarships. It’s coaching you can apply to your family’s athletic scholarship pursuit. It’s primarily for parents, but student-athletes will benefit, too. The host, Recruit-Me CEO Jon Fugler, has been helping families since 2002 and is an expert in the athletic scholarship field.
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Reach Beyond Podcast: Stories of hope, inspiration and transformation from around the world
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Stories of hope, inspiration and transformation from around the world.
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Epi 430 An Interview with Andy Allanson, Elite Academic Academy, Part 1 of 2
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Episode 430 is part 1 of a 2 part interview with ex-MLB Catcher, Andy Allanson. Andy is now the Peak Performance Athletic Lead at Elite Academic Academy in southern California. Elite's Peak Performance is one of the many offerings at Elite Academic Academy. There are links to Elite Academic below. Andy brings you information this week on his colleg…
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Epi 429 New NCAA Scholarship Rules Could Affect You
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Today I highlight an X post from @SportsForceBB about their option on the new NCAA Scholarship and Team Roster rules starting in the 2025-2026 season of sports. This post talks mainly about college baseball, but the new rule will affect other sports and level of college sports and recruiting. You will get the 5 points that the @SportsForce BB post …
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Epi 428 2 Social Media Posts; NLI & Advice from a College Head Coach
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I came across 2 posts on X on social media that I will cover in this episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. The 1st post was about the announcement that the National Letter of Intent will be eliminated by the NCAA Division I and Division II levels. I will give you the actual announcement and what the NLI was and how it might effect recruiting…
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Epi 427 Commit to Your "Right Fit" College and Stay
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A goal of Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is help student-athletes find their "right fit" college and college sports team. I would challenge the athlete to research and understand as much as possible about what their college experience will be like. Also, I challenge them to try to find a fit and give themselves at least 2 years to …
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Epi 426 College Commits Do This Too Often
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The goal of Recruit Me, LLC and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is to help guide you to a "right fit" choice of a college for you. There are things I see and hear about in the recruiting world that are great successes, but there are things that upset me or make me sad. I covered in Episode 424 and 425 some pitfalls in recruiting journey. Pitfalls …
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Epi 425 When a College Commit Does This, I Get Sad
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Get definitions of verbal commitments at all levels of college play and why there is a risk to an early commitment for a High School Student-Athlete. 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 QRRec…
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Episode 424 Sometimes Recruiting Makes Me Sad
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Welcome to Episode 424 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. I'm Brent Hanks, the host of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, the Owner/CEO of Recruit Me, LLC and the father of 2 college baseball players. Our family's recruiting started back in 2015 and today's episode covers 3 of many things that make me sad in the recruiting world. Listen in and don…
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Epi 423 Recruit-Me.com Website; Free & Inexpensive Recruiting Education Resources
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Episode 423 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is a look at the Recruit-Me.com website. I want to show you the resources available on the website and that you are not going get strung out for hundreds or thousands of dollars to get all the information or the help you need to get a spot on a college team or an athletic scholarship. The pages on the…
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Epi 422 A Review of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Steps 4 through 7
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Welcome to The Athletic Scholarship Podcast and Episode 422. 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 promo code RecruitMe5 CollegeCoachesOnline.com promo code RM123 Listen to Past…
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Epi 421 A Review of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Steps 1 through 3
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Welcome to Episode 421 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This episode is a review of Steps 1 through 3 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship from the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System found on Recruit-Me.com. Episodes 414 through 420 cover each step, individually. So, today I am going to give you some personal insights and tips for …
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Epi 420 Step 7 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Make Your School Choice Wisely
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Episode 420 is Step 7 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship and covers the subject of Making Your School Choice Wisely. Steps 1 through 6 setup this step. Listen to how you pull together all your research and work to help you to make your "Right Fit" college choice. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of re…
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Epi 419 Step 6 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Send 1 Page Updates
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Welcome to Episode 419 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, hosted by Brent Hanks, the Owner & CEO of Recruit Me, LLC. Thiis is Step 6 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship. Those 7 Steps are featured in the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System on Recruit-Me.com. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of…
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Epi 418 Step 5 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Track Your Communications
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Episode 418 covers the 5th step of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship. The 5th step is Track Your Communications. You need to have a plan and create a habit to make sure you collect all the information you need to make a "right fit" choice of the college and the athletic program you want to commit to. Tracking your communications will keep you …
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Epi 417 Step 4 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Build Your Own Recruiting Questionnaire
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Episode 417 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, the world's longest running athletic recruiting education weekly podcast, gives you Step 4 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Build Your Own Recruiting Questionnaire. My name is Brent Hanks and I'm the host of The Atlhletic Scholarship Podcast and the owner of Recruit Me, LLC. Go to Recruit-M…
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Epi 416 Step 3 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Create Your 1 Sheet Player Profile
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Episode 416 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is Step 3 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Create Your 1 Sheet Player Profile. You will get the chapter of the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System manual that walks you through the process to create your own Player Profile, which is your resume. This document is the key to getting a c…
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Epi 415 Step 2 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Write a Great Email
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Episode 415 is Step 2 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship and it walks you through why writing a great Introductory Email is a critical part of your recruiting process and then gives you a model of how to write it. Key points from this episode are: Send a personal email to coaches Your email should be brief. Write it as a 1 page and with just…
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Epi 414 Step 1 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Select the Right Schools to Contact
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Welcome to Epi 414 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This is the 1st of 7 episodes that will cover the 7 Steps to An Athletic Scholarship from the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System. This episode is a little shorter than normal and is a little later than normal. I'm in Canada and my oldest son, Parker is getting married today! There's al…
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Epi 413 Recruiting Weekly Tips: 36 thru 52 Tips
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Welcome to Episode 413, the 2nd part of the Recruiting Weekly Tips. This week you get the recruiting tips that will hit social media on weeks 36 through 52. Quick tips about recruiting and your recruiting journey like, information on showcases and ID camps, how to build a recruiting team, how grades effect your recruitment and how Recruit Me is for…
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Epi 412 Recruiting Weekly Tips; 35 of 52 Tips
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Episode 412 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast gives you 35 short pieces of recruiting advice that I will soon publish on Recruit Me's social media sites. Dig in and pick out the tips that will help you to get recruited. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education. Recruit-Me.com Rec…
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Epi 411 The Transfer Portal[ Should You Be Concerned as a High School Student-Athlete?
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Episode 411 gives you insight into how the transfer portal effects the high school student-athlete. 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 promo code RecruitMe5 CollegeCoachesOnl…
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Epi 410 Free Chapters of the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship Manual
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Welcome to episode 410, of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. In past, The Athletic Scholarship Podcast episodes I have referenced the cornerstone of Recruit Me, the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System. The Recruit Me 3.0 System includes a 200 plus page manual and includes a workbook and worksheets. I have covered the Seven Steps to an Athlet…
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Epi 409 A Review of the Interview with Scott McCowan; The Father of a D1 Basketball Player
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Episode 409 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is a review of the interview with Scott McCowan from episodes 407 and 408. Scott, the father of a current D1 women's basketball player, gave us a look into his daughter's and his family's experience through Raegan's recruitment and her first year of college and college basketball at Western Illinois U…
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Epi 408 An Interview with Scott McCowan; The Father of a D1 Women's Basketball Player, Part 2 of 2
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Episode 408 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Scott McCowan. Scott is a past college basketball and football player, a past college basketball coach and is presently the father of a college basketball player. His daughter, Raegan, just finished her freshman year on the Western Illinios Lady Leathernecks basket…
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Epi 407 An Interview with Scott McCowan; Father of a DI Women's Basketball Player, Part 1 of 2
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Episode 407 is Part 1 of a 2 part interview with a friend and past competitor from our high school days. Scott McCowan is now an insurance agent in Lebanon, Missouri, but also the father of a current women's NCAA Division 1 basketball player and he is a former NAIA level basketball and football player himself. Scott also coached college basketball …
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Epi 406 Getting Recruited Takes More Than Just Emails. Or Does It?
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Welcome to Episode 406 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast has goals of providing student-athletes and their families with as many free and expensive recruiting resources and advice sources as possible. Go to Recruit-Me.com to get started with Recruit Me by getting the FREE Recruiting Power Pack and …
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Epi 405 A Look at A Strong-Headed 17 Year Old's Recruiting Decision
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Welcome to Episode 405 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education. Back in September of 2023 I interviewed Karl Barkley from D3Direct. Episodes 370 & 371 gave you a look it NCAA Division III sports and recruiting. Karl and D3Direct also have a pod…
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Epi 404 Recruiting Inspired by an Indeed.com's Article; How to Get the Job You Want in 8 Steps
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Episode 404 compares an article from Indeed.com called How to Get the Job You Want in 8 Steps. I take the 8 steps in the article and compare it to the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship that is found in the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System. Listen to how Indeed's 8 steps compare to Recruit Me's 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship. Select t…
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Epi 403 Built In Advantages of Playing a Sport in College
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Episode 403 has some inspiration from Episode 401. It made me think of reasons and advantages a student-athlete gets from playing a sport in college. I go back to my college sport experience and also lean on the experiences during Parker's, my older son's, 4 years at Northwestern playing baseball for the Wildcats and my younger son's, Sutton's, cur…
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Epi 402 There is a Place for You to Play, Find It!
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Episode 402 is a deep look into how many opportunities are out there for you to play your sport in college. I my observations through my college experience, my older son's college experience as a college baseball pitcher at Northwestern University and my younger son's current experience as a outfielder at Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri brin…
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Epi 401 A Stark Reminder About Myth #1 About Recruiting; College Coaches Will Just Find You
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A week ago I got a text from a father of a student-athlete that reminded me of Myth #1 About Athletic Scholarships. Myth #1 is one of ten myths listed and answered in the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System Manual. Go to Recruit-Me.com to get access to the ecruit Me 3.0 System for only $39. Myth #1 listed in the Recruit Me 3.0 is: If my chil…
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Epi 400 Let's Celebrate the 400th Episode with an Interview with Jon Fugler
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Welcome to the historic 400th episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. The Athletic Scholarship Podcast has been a weekly recruiting education podcast since 2015. The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is the world's longest running recruiting education podcast. You get a peek into the Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast as I continue to …
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Epi 399 A Review of Episode 37; How Do You Rise to the Top
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Welcome to Episode 399 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. We are on the doorstep of our 400th episode and this episode is a look back of one of the past episodes. The past episode in review is Episode 37 and is titled How Do You Rise to the Top. Jon Fuglar, the original host and founder of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast brings you 3 helpful poi…
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Bet on yourself has a lot of angles in your recruitment. This episode was inspired by me listening to another podcast called the Never Stop Getting Better Podcast hosted by a local football head coach at Nixa High School, Coach John Perry. Episode 78 of the Never Stop Getting Better Podcast was an interview between Coach Perry and the head football…
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Epi 397 Resources to Build a College School List
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Welcome to Episode 397 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. One of the most important, challenging and fun parts of the recruiting process is building your college school list to contact. Recruit Me's philosophy is that you need to recruit colleges to recruit you. There are free and inexepensive resources out there to help you to build your college…
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Epi 396 An Interview with Wayne Woosley, QR Recruiter, Part 2 of 2
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Welcome to Epi 396 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. Here is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Wayne Woosley, the owner of QR Recruiter. Go to QRRecruiter.com. In this episode we cover the technologies affliated with QR Recruiter, the future of QR Recruiter and the many ways QR Recruiter helps you get recruited. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me…
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Epi 395 An Interview with Wayne Woosley, QR Recruiter, Part 1 of 2
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Welcome to Epi 395 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This episode was delayed from last week. I missed publishing the episode because I was on a trip to Argentina and my computer would not power on, either on the plane or at the house we stayed in. I had planned on finishing the publishing on the 11 hour flight down there. So here is Part 1 of a…
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Epi 394 What Do You Do After You Get the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System?
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Welcome to Episode 394 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. The Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System is the cornerstone to the Recruit Me business and to your recruiting success. Today I give you the older follow up information after you purchased the Recruit Me 3.0 System. These follow ups give you some great recruiting advice and tips. Clic…
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Epi 393 An Interview with Aaron Boutwell; Father of a Rower, Part 2 of 2
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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 s…
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Epi 392 An Interview with Aaron Boutwell; The Father of a College Rower, Part 1 of 2
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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 ath…
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Epi 391 New Year Recruiting for the 2027 Grad; The 2024 Freshman
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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: Acade…
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Epi 390 New Year Recruiting for the 2026 Grad; The Sophomore Year of 2024
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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 …
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Epi 389 An Interview w/Chance Potts, A Mental Fitness Coach
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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 …
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Epi 388 New Year Recruiting for the 2025 Grad; Junior Year
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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…
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Epi 387 New Year Recruiting for the 2024 Grad; Senior in 2024
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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 recruitin…
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Epi 386 A 2023 The Athletic Scholarship Podcast Review; Holiday Edition386
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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. T…
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Epi 385 Recruit Me is the Spark, You are the Fire
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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…
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Epi 384 Virtual Dugout App; A Recruiting Resource; Part 2 of 2
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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 fre…
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Epi 383 Virtual Dugout App; A Recruiting Resource, Part 1 of 2
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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 ba…
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Epi 382 A Review of the Interview with Shawn Goosenberg; An Ex-College & Current Pro Baseball Player
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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…
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Epi 381 Part 2 of 2 An Interview with Shawn Goosenberg A College Pro Baseball Player
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Welcome to Episode 381 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with an ex-college and current professional baseball player, Shawn Goosenberg. Shawn gives you advice on getting recruited, preparing for college and college sports and he gives you his favorite memories about playing college baseball and his college ex…
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