Put Me In, Coach: A Parent's Guide to Winning the Game of College Recruiting

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PUT ME IN, COACH is a must-have guidebook for parents and their student-athletes who want to be recruited to compete in athletics at the college level. Most student-athletes and their parents venture into college sports recruiting with little or no experience. Because of limited roster spots, only a handful of high school athletes will play their sport competitively in college and even fewer will get NCAA or NAIA scholarships. For your child to be one of them, you need a game plan, and the earlier you start, the better. So if you are the parent of a student-athlete who is better than most in high school athletics, but college coaches aren't lining up at your door, you will find PUT ME IN, COACH indispensable. Here is a sampling of what you will learn by reading this book: how to market your child so coaches take notice, how to get money from any school even those that don t give athletic scholarships, how to identify the colleges that are the right fit for your child, how to understand recruiting from the coaches point of view, and how to make the right impression and get the most out of campus visits. PUT ME IN, COACH includes 20 true stories that bring to life the many situations you will find yourself in along the recruiting trail. You will encounter the personal observations and advice of 40 college coaches from different schools and different divisions. In short, the strategies in PUT ME IN, COACH put you right where you need to be -- in the driver s seat!

The greatest compliment to Laurie Richter's book for parents concerning college recruiting is that our coaches--the guys who have spent years doing this--found it to be a solid road map of the how to's of the business. It is accurate, fair, and gives valuable insight to parents and young people who are making one of life's most important decisions for a college-bound athlete. I have always said that recruiting is like dating, and you need to know all you can about a person before you get engaged. This book helps you figure out how to do that. --Mack Brown, Head Football Coach, University of Texas at Austin

From a coaching perspective, recruiting is an inexact science. This book provides a refreshingly accurate and honest assessment of the recruiting process and solid advice on how to manage it. Sports and educational opportunities are plentiful, but finding the best fit scholastically, athletically, and socially should be the primary goal. This is an excellent guide. --Jody Conradt, Head Coach, Women's Basketball, University of Texas at Austin, 1976-2007

Richter's book guides parents through each step of the recruiting process, starting with actually deciding whether or not college athletics are a good fit for you and your child. Besides drawing on her personal experiences, Richter reviewed statistics from the NCAA, talked to college-bound students and their parents and interviewed college coaches from a range of sports and schools. The result is an honest tutorial that stresses the importance of researching potential colleges as early as the ninth grade. --North Shore Magazine, March 2009-- Richter's book on recruiting hits the nail on the head. Put Me In, Coach, A Parent's Guide to Winning the Game of College Recruiting is a thoughtful and detailed look into everything a student athlete and his parents need to know before attempting to find a school that best fits the student's needs. Put Me In, Coach is full of common sense tips for the prospective student athlete. --Lincolnshire Review, A Pioneer Press Publication. January 8, 2009-- Put Me In, Coach has a lot of great info. It will help the student athlete who wants to get recruited, better navigate a process that has become a lot more complex than it used to be. --Kristine Lilly, Two Time Olympic Gold Medalist Women's Soccer

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