As a player, the only thing that is totally under their control in college softball is grades. Smash the grades, softball gets easier to get recruited and cheaper for the family.
Couple of points of interest:
1- college rosters are usually way bigger than 20, DD is a HS Senior and going to a mid major D1 next year that will have around 30 kids on the roster sharing those 12 scholarships.
2- The amount of athletic money to each player is negotiated each year (most cases). Usually, upper classmen that are the backbone of the team get more money.
3- Coaches will have a couple of recruits that they chase with a lot of money each year, the rest they would like to fill with kids with good grades as the team has way more flexibility with academic money than athletic money (ESPECIALLY private).
4- FAFSA money helps teams too. Your 2 year prior tax return determines your players eligibility to receive money. When athletic, academic, and FAFSA money equals more than 100% of the Cost of Attendance, the excess ATHLETIC money goes back to the team to spend. This is especially valuable to teams, more money = more better!!
Work hard, don't try to plan it all out too much. You can't control who wants to recruit your daughter. The entire process is maddening sometimes, awesome sometimes, and weirdly anticlimactic at the end.
College will cost way less than private HS and travel softball for our family.
Couple of points of interest:
1- college rosters are usually way bigger than 20, DD is a HS Senior and going to a mid major D1 next year that will have around 30 kids on the roster sharing those 12 scholarships.
2- The amount of athletic money to each player is negotiated each year (most cases). Usually, upper classmen that are the backbone of the team get more money.
3- Coaches will have a couple of recruits that they chase with a lot of money each year, the rest they would like to fill with kids with good grades as the team has way more flexibility with academic money than athletic money (ESPECIALLY private).
4- FAFSA money helps teams too. Your 2 year prior tax return determines your players eligibility to receive money. When athletic, academic, and FAFSA money equals more than 100% of the Cost of Attendance, the excess ATHLETIC money goes back to the team to spend. This is especially valuable to teams, more money = more better!!
Work hard, don't try to plan it all out too much. You can't control who wants to recruit your daughter. The entire process is maddening sometimes, awesome sometimes, and weirdly anticlimactic at the end.
College will cost way less than private HS and travel softball for our family.
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