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Dear TennisRecruiting.net Member - Welcome to Recruiting Monthly - the email newsletter of The Tennis Recruiting Network. This issue announces a new feature for players and parents - Coaches' Visit Statistics. We also discuss ways players can market themselves effectively to coaches - and introduce Prince as a recent addition to our sponsors. NEW FOR PLAYERS AND PARENTS - COACHES' VISIT STATS Players - have you ever wondered how many people are looking at your player profile? Or which coaches are checking you out? Starting today, you can find out for yourself. Create a free account and link your player profile, and you can see the number of visitors - overall and coaches' visits - to your profile page. Those numbers are available to players and parents on their profile pages. Better yet, Recruiting Advantage members can dig deeper to find out exactly which coaches are visiting. Look at this example statistics page. So go ahead - find out exactly how many coaches are looking at your page. SHOULD I UPDATE MY SCHOOLS OF INTEREST? One of the most popular features of any recruiting service is seeing schools of interest for high school athletes. TennisRecruiting.net provides this service - and players and parents are welcome to create a free account and list their top schools. But should you list them? If you want to market yourself effectively to coaches, the answer is "yes". Here are some good reasons: The Numbers - coaches are more likely to view players who list schools of interest. The average number of coaches' visits for ranked high school students is 5.6. But for players who update their schools of interest, that number goes up to 27.2 visits - almost five times as many! Giving Coaches Information - here is a quote from an SEC coach who has taken his program to the NCAA tournament eight of the past ten seasons: "Please strongly encourage kids to include their choices for schools - we really go by this. If a kid puts our school down as an option, and they're in our target range with their level, we'll definitely recruit them. A lot of kids don't include this and it's too bad. I think the more information from the player the better." Listing information provides more information to coaches. For example, listing Miami of Ohio shows coaches that you might have interest in the Midwest, schools from the MAC conference, schools with 12,000-15,000 students, or schools that fit a certain academic profile. So, the answer is yes - you should strongly consider listing some schools of interest. NEW SPONSOR - PRINCE TENNIS The Tennis Recruiting Network welcomes Prince - and their O3 Speedport racquet - as a website sponsor: From its origin as a manufacturer of tennis ball machines, Prince has proven itself to be an industry leader in the development and manufacturing of performance racquet sports equipment. Prince has revolutionized the game of tennis with its introductions of the "Oversize" and "Longbody" and today, O3 engineered racquets. Prince's expanded tennis line outfits players from head to toe, with shoes, apparel, balls, accessories, and more. Prince has leveraged its international exposure by sponsoring some of the sport's most elite athletes, including Maria Sharapova, James Blake, Guillermo Coria, Jennifer Capriati, Patrick Rafter and Martina Navratilova. Their success in Grand Slam competitions has heightened consumer interest in the Prince brand as well as the sport of tennis. Today Prince maintains a strong presence on the professional tennis circuit through sponsorships and events, working closely with local programs throughout the country, and developing grassroots opportunities for the sport's next generation of stars. Join me in welcoming Prince to the Tennis Recruiting Network family! LOOKING BACK AT FEBRUARY, FORWARD TO MARCH February may be the shortest month of the year, but there was a lot of content at TennisRecruiting.net:
March features a number of features that build up to Signing Day on April 11. Here is a sample of stories coming next month:
Thanks for reading Recruiting Monthly. If you have any questions about this newsletter or our website, please contact me directly. Best regards, Dallas Dallas Oliver
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