Originally Posted by CageSage
How to Get the Most Value from Your Showcase Event

There is a general assumption that being accepted and showing up is enough to have players "noticed" at showcases. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Once your team is accepted, the work really begins for a team to get the most from the showcasing experience and expense.

Some questions to consider:
  • Is someone on the premier/club team maintaining a master list of players and the schools to which they have written?
  • When multiple players are competing for the same college, is there a club coach conducting conversations to get the player with the top interest in the school noticed first?
  • Are team profiles up to date with signings and commitments that have already taken place?
  • Have your players specifically received confirmation from coaches as to which game they will be attending?
  • Have parents been assigned corners on the playing field to hand out profiles to visiting coaches?
  • Is a parent recording the names of coaches who are seeing your team?
  • Is someone asking the attending coaches which players they are there to see as a means of confirming coaching interest?
The list goes on, but the more preparation that is done before a showcase, the more likely that your team and players will successfully meet their goals. Organization is everything to make the showcase event as valuable to the entire team as possible.


Cage, my son just went through the recruiting process. He is committed to play this fall in his first choice school.

I think your advice is above is great. However, I'm not sure about the whole parents approaching coaches with profiles and asking them who they are there to see part of your advise. Having sat through more recruiting primers held by DI,II,III coaches this advice is counter to everything I've heard these coaches say. Almost to a coach, they all say they aren't interested in direct parent to coach contact on the side lines. I also think handing out profile sheets to coaches might be the most over the top thing I've ever heard. Further, in all the showcase and tournaments my son did over the last three years, I never saw anyone do that.