INTRODUCTION 
If your athlete is striving to play at the collegiate level, the recruitment process can be daunting and overwhelming. Please use the following links as well as the FMVBA coaches to help you!
How do I get started?
College Contact Rules
Making a video
FMVBA director, Wynn DePasquale, and College Recruiting Coordinator, Ryan Lengerich, will help you at
every step of this process. Please contact us to help you: organize your college choices, make your recruitment video, and dialogue with potential college coaches.
Our assistance is included in your club fees.
You need to effectively promote yourself in today’s competitive market-we are here to help!
HOW TO GET STARTED IN THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
1. List 10-15 schools that you are interested in. You should have already researched each school making sure that they have your course of study. (List schools of varying levels DI-DIII). This should be done freshman through junior year.
2. Create a resume. Include playing experience, GPA, physical profile, current team s info, and your coaches contact information. This should be done sophomore through senior year. Make sure to update your resume at the end of each season.
3. Begin to contact the schools that you are interested in! You can contact them as much as you want
via personal e-mail. Make sure to attach your resume along with your current playing schedule. This should be done sophomore through senior year.
4. Organize the new relationships that you are making. Keep all the dialogue that you have with coaches together and handy. (Know the schools that you are contacting i.e. coach’s name, location, mascot etc.). This should be done sophomore through senior year.
5. Tape your recruitment video. (Should be completed by the fall of your junior year).
6. Complete the Clearing House process. (As a student-athlete you must first meet a number of specific requirements that gives you the right and the opportunity to participate in athletics. This should be completed late in your junior year and continually work with your academic advisor at your school. If you intend to participate in Division I or II athletics as a freshman, you must register and be certified by the NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse. The NCAA will certify that the athlete is academically qualified to participate in sports at that level).
7. Schedule unofficial visits. (You can go on as many unofficial visits as you want and it will help you narrow down your choices). This is a great time to see campus and take a look at the facilities, maybe even meet the coach. This should be done sophomore through senior year. Make sure that you clearly understand their interest in you before visiting.
8. Schedule official visits. Make sure that you understand the NCAA rules regarding “official” visits before you accept an offer by the coach to visit. www.NCAA.com During these visits you will stay on campus, usually with one of the current players, go on tours of the campus and playing facilities, watch practice, and formally visit with the coach. This is the time to ask the coach specific questions and decide if that school is the right fit for you!
COLLEGE CONTACT RULES
Contact: Is any type of face to face meeting between the prospective student-athlete, his/her parents or
legal guardian(s) and a colleges staff member or athletic representative at which time a discussion occurs
that is more than “hello” or a greeting.
College institutions are limited to 7 recruiting contacts and evaluations combined per prospect. During April of the junior year in high school, 1 of the 7 recruiting opportunities may include a contact with a prospective student-athlete or his/her parents or legal guardian(s) which can take place on the student-athletes high
school campus based off of the recruiting calendar. In person off-campus recruiting contacts shall not be
made with a prospect or his/her parents or legal guardian(s) before July 1 following his/her completion of the junior year in high school.
Recruiting Materials, Mailings and Questionnaires: A prospective student-athlete may receive a questionnaire at any time in your high school career, including as a freshman. But a coach may not provide a prospective student-athlete with any RECRUITING MATERIALS until September 1st, at the beginning of the prospects junior year of high school.
Telephone Calls: One telephone call to a prospect or a prospect's parents or legal guardians may be made during March of the prospect's junior year in high school. It is legal to make one in-person, off-campus recruiting contact with a prospect on the prospect's high-school campus during April of the prospect's junior year in high school. Additional telephone calls or in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts shall not be made with a prospect or the prospect's parents before July 1 following the prospect's completion of the junior year in high school.
Telephone Calls: All Electronic voice exchange shall be considered a telephone call. All electronically transmitted communications (electronic mail, faxes, text messages, instant messenger) shall not be
considered phone calls.
Prospective Student-Athletes Initiating Phone Calls: Institutional staff members may receive phone calls placed by a prospective student-athlete at the prospects own expense at any time which also includes before or prior to the prospective student-athletes junior year (July 1st) of high school.
Emails: High school student-athletes are allowed to send emails to college coaches but coaches are not allowed to send personal letters or emails to student-athletes until one’s junior year in high school per NCAA regulations.
Contact period – During this time a college coach may have in person contact w/you and your parents on or off the college’s campus. The coach may also watch you play or visit your high school. You and your parents may visit a college campus and the coach may write and telephone you during this period.
Dead period –The college coach may not have any in person contact with you or your parents at any time in the dead period. The coach may write or telephone you or your parents during this time.
Evaluation period – The college coach may watch you play or visit your high school but cannot have any in person conversations with you and your parents of the college’s campus. You and your parents can visit a college campus during this period. A coach may write and telephone you or your parents during this time.
Quiet period –The college coach may not have any in person contact with you or your parents off the college’s campus. The coach may not watch you play or visit your high school during this period. You and
your parents may visit a college campus during this time. A coach may write or telephone you or your
parents during this time.
Women’s Volleyball Evaluation Days- Even though there are 365 days in a year, a college athletic institution is limited to only 80 evaluation days from August 1 thru July 31. This does not include a college coach employment at camps or clinics or the observation of prospective student-athletes taking part in high school volleyball games or tournaments. This does include though the involvement outside the contact and evaluation period with a local sports club.
A college coach who is attending a prospective student-athletes practice or game in an individual sport on a specific day shall use an evaluation day only for those participants the he or she observes engaging in
practice or games and the evaluation is counted even if a contact is made during the same day.
HELPFUL RECRUITING LINKS
NCAA Guide for the College-Bound Student-Athlete 
NCAA Freshman Eligibility Worksheet
NCAA Eligibility Center
NCAA Schools with Women’s Volleyball Programs
Division 1
Division II
Division III
NCAA Defines the Differences between Divisions
NCAA Recruiting Calendar
NCAA Recruiting Rules
Division I
Division II
Division III
NCAA National Letter of Intent and Financial Aid
NCAA Student Page (This is a great tool for your athlete!)
National Clearinghouse
NAIA Homepage
Recruiting Assistance Company
