Aside from the individual showcases, it is critical to go to select college prospect days on campus at schools your son is interested in/where they have interest in him. This is where the relationships with coaches are deepened and you son can determine if he likes the school and coaches. Also, the showcases above are focused on D1 potential kids. There is a different list for D2/D3 potential kids. Hope this helps.
Where do we find the list for D2/D3 potential kids?
BOTC is jumping into this discussion to inject our perspective. Often times, we will see questions both here on BOTC and our other youth sports messages boards that ask, "Where can I showcase for the NCAA Division II and Division III coaches?" The logic here is that the student-athlete can play a series of games and then choose from amongst the colleges that attended to decide on their university interest lists.
We believe that this process is completely backwards. While it might feel logical, this is self-selecting a school based on the wrong criteria : what adult coaches attended a showcase event.
Start by identifying the schools in which you have a genuine interest using resources such as College Board (academic filtering) or the NCAA web site (athletics filtering). If you arm yourself with a target listing, you can begin to ask the coaches at those schools where there will be recruiting over the next year. Alternatively, you can look at many showcase web sites and see the coaches that attended the previous year.
In short, there is no web site (of which we are aware) dedicated to Division II and Division III lacrosse recruiting. (Ironically, there is one for Division III men's and women's soccer, but not lacrosse as yet.) Therefore, some additional legwork is needed by parents to walk this path, but the work put into the process will better prepare you for the recruiting efforts ahead.
