Why aren’t college coaches watching my child play and talking to them?

Nancy H. from North Carolina asks:

Why aren’t college coaches watching my child play and talking to them?

College coaches may not be watching you play for several reasons:

First, coaches may not know where your child is playing. Sometimes a coach may receive an email from a prospective student-athlete while at practice and file it away for future reference and simply forget to look at it again. They may want to follow, but managing a current roster is a busy task.

One coach told me recently that a top recruit had changed their schedule several times via email and he found it difficult to keep up with this recruit’s schedule. The coach missed watching the recruit play, even though the coach was nearby. Don’t let this happen to you. Will2Golf has made it easy for college coaches and student-athletes to have a shared virtual office for keeping track of profiles and calendaring of events . Make it easy for a coach to see you play by calendaring your events on Will2Golf. In one simple email, let a coach know they can find you on Will2Golf!

Second, are you old enough for coaches to contact you under NCAA rules?

Under NCAA rules, a student-athlete may be contacted by a Division I college coach September 1 of their junior year. The rules are a bit different for Division II and Division III.

Third, a coach may not recognize you. Make it easy for college coaches to identify you each day of a tournament by updating your profile photo.