Bishop O'Dowd High School

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Athletic Recruiting

The athletic college recruiting process requires a lot of hard work, research, and persistence. The Bishop O’Dowd High School counselors, coaches, and athletic department staff are here to assist you through this process. Please see your counselor or the Assistant Athletic Director, Hillary Kigar, with questions.

The Bishop O’Dowd Athletic Department endorses SportsRecruits — a software platform to help you manage your recruiting process. This platform provides counselors, coaches, players and their families access to every college coach in the country.

SportsRecruits is a program that allows us to empower student-athletes as they research schools and communicate with college coaches with complete transparency.

If you want to learn more about SportsRecruits, take a look at this 5-minute video explaining the platform: Platform Overview – Why SportsRecruits

Please contact SportsRecruits directly for help in setting up your account.

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Student Athletes who have aspirations of competing athletically as freshman at an NCAA Division I or Division II school must meet NCAA Initial-Eligibility minimum standards. including minimum core course GPA and SAT/ACT test score requirements.

We, the Athletic and Counseling Departments, recently purchased the program Core Course GPA. This is a web-based software program, available to all Bishop O’Dowd High School student-athletes and their parents/guardians free of charge.

Core Course GPA is an innovative tool that allows you to easily track your son or daughter’s progress towards meeting these requirements, beginning as soon as the first semester of their freshman year.

Set up your free account »

CORE Course GPA website »

 

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Take a look at some of these resources for more information about the college recruiting process.

Freshmen Year

  1. Read the 2017-18 NCAA College Bound Student Athlete Guide
  2. Read information at the NCAA Eligibility website »
  3. Begin building your athletic resume by tracking your academic and athletic accomplishments. Click here to view a sample athletic resume »
  4. Create your Core Course GPA account, work with your counselor to map out your 4 year academic course plan. Set up your free account CORE COURSE GPA website »

 

Sophomore Year

  1. Check for changes in the 2017-18 NCAA College Bound Student Athlete Guide
  2. Read information at the NCAA Eligibility website »
  3. Continue building your academic and athletic resume of accomplishments. Click here to view a sample athletic resume »
  4. Meet with your Bishop O’Dowd counselor to discuss college athletics and the NCAA required core courses.
  5. Begin building a list of 15-30 colleges you are interested in across all colleges from the links below (Dl, Dll, Dlll colleges) , NAIA colleges »
  6. Notify the varsity head coach of your desire to participate in college athletics along with your list of 15-30 colleges you are interested in.
  7. Update your courses and grades in your Core Course GPA account to reflect your most up to date semester grades. Review current eligibility status and progress with your counselor.

Junior Year

  1. Check for changes in the 2017-18 NCAA College Bound Student Athlete Guide
  2. Review the Recruiting Calendars and Rules by Sport
  3. Register with the NCAA Eligibility Center and write down login info.
  4. Update your courses and grades in your Core Course GPA account to reflect your most up to date semester grades. Review current eligibility status and progress with your counselor.
  5. Notify the Registrar in the Bishop O’Dowd Counseling Office that you’ve completed your registration with the NCAA Eligibility Center. Email Christine Abdenour: [email protected] at 510-577-9100 Ext. 605.
  6. Meet with counselor to review the required core courses and make sure you are on track.
  7. Meet with your varsity head coach to discuss an appropriate level of college athletics (i.e. Division I, II, III, NAIA, junior college).
  8. Register to take the SAT and/or ACT before January and have all scores sent to the Eligibility Center. Use the NCAA Eligibility code “9999” as a score recipient.
  9. Continue to compile and revise your list of prospective schools, gather contact information for coaches at each school and make the initial contact.

Senior Year

  1. Continue contact with college coaches.
  2. Meet with your counselor to discuss college admissions and any recruiting information you received in the summer.
  3. Narrow and finalize list of colleges and gather application information for each student-athlete.
  4. The student-athlete MUST complete a full application to be admitted to a college.
  5. Complete all testing requirements, essays, letters of recommendations, etc.
  6. Complete SAT and/or ACT testing.
  7. Know the deadline for each individual college.
  8. Go on college visits and enjoy yourself. Your counselor and coach can help determine the types of questions to ask on the college visit, both athletic and academic.
  9. Complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in spring. Even if you do not think you will qualify for aid, athletic departments often use this information.