Junior (11th Grade)
Fall- September is the first month college coaches can mail to you and initiate e-mail contact with you
- Respond to coaches immediately
- Email the coaches of your top 20-30 schools with your fall tournament schedule
- Make sure to play in some fall tournaments
- Get a solid list together of your top 10 schools
- Look into playing in a winter league or attending a winter camp
- Sign up for the early Spring SAT or ACT testing dates
- Keep coaches of your top schools up to date on anything new and on your upcoming season
Spring
- Try and attend some college lacrosse games (preferably at your top schools)
- Continue to modify your top 10 and top 20-30 schools list and email coaches of any additions
- Take SAT
- Start thinking about what camps to attend for the summer
- Email coaches about your high school season and with your summer tournament and camp schedule
Summer
- Send coaches at your top 20-30 schools an email with your camp and summer tournament schedule
- Send coaches at your top 20-30 schools a reminder email 1-2 weeks before every tournament or recruiting camp you are attending
- Send coaches your most recent telephone numbers so they can contact you come July 1
- Send coaches a complete high school transcript from grades 9-11
- Register for the NCAA Clearinghouse after your junior year
- Retake SAT and ACT tests as needed to improve your scores
- Play in tournaments
- Attend camps where coaches you want to play for will be
- Visit schools and arrange to meet coaches if possible while you are on campus
- Get video of you playing made if you have not already and send out to at least your top 10 schools
- July 1 is the first time coaches are allowed to call you. The process starts on this day, but goes until at least September
- If possible, you should take unofficial visits to all the schools in which you have an interest by the end of the summer
- Begin planning official visits if they offered to you
- Keep an open phone line and communicate with college coaches at least once a week and you can also send an update email
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