This is the podcast for parents and athletes that explores every aspect of recruiting and athletic scholarships. It’s coaching you can apply to your family’s athletic scholarship pursuit. It’s primarily for parents, but student-athletes will benefit, too. The host, Recruit-Me CEO Jon Fugler, has been helping families since 2002 and is an expert in the athletic scholarship field.
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Merry Christmas! What a wonderful way to end a great year. This Christmas Eve episode and next week's New Year's Eve episode gives you a brief description of each episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, Episodes 387 to 412 are covered in this episode and then episodes 413 to 437 will be covered next Tuesday. Here at The Athletic Scholarship Po…
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This episode is re-read of a Zoom workshop that I did for the Elite Academic Academy in Southern California. Today, I cover the last part of Step #1 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship that is part of the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System. Step #1 is Select the Right Schools to Contact and then I cover Step #2, which is Write a Great…
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Listen in to get a look at how a recent college softball recruit viewed her experience with camps and showcases in her search. The X Post is from @streuber2025, go check it out. Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System FREE Recruiting Power Pack QRRecruiter.com promo code RecruitMe5 CollegeCoachesOnline.com promo code RM123 Listen …
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Epi 435 A Review of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, Epi 111; How to Compare Schools & Programs the Right Way
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Let's jump into the Christmas Holiday season by going back into The Athletic Scholarship Podcast vault and doing a review of Episode 111 from back in October 2018. This episode was presented by Jon Fugler, the founder of both Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. Jon published 202 weekly episodes and this episode makes 233 of me publishi…
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Welcome to Episode 434 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, the world's longest running athletic recruiting education podcast. This episode is a recreation of a Zoom workshop I did for the Elite Academic Academy in California. This was the first of many monthly workshops I will present to the Elite student-athletes and parents. This one covers what…
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Episode 433 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is highlighting and reviewing an episode of The Closing Pitch Podcast, Episode 144. During The Closing Pitch Podcast the hosts cover many of the changes and effects of the new NCAA scholarship and team roster rules that are combined with the recent changes in the Transfer Portal and NIL. Get a peak in…
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Here is a recruiting tip for you, the prospective college student athlete: Try to get your high school and club coaches involved with your recruitment. Also, here is a message to the student-athlete and coaches; The student-athlete needs to bring a list of researched colleges and sit down with coaches to get their opinion on the level of play and o…
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Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Andy Allanson, Ex-MLB catcher and Athletic Lead for the Elite Academic Academy in Southern California. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education. Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System FREE Recruiting Power Pack QRRecruiter.com pr…
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Episode 430 is part 1 of a 2 part interview with ex-MLB Catcher, Andy Allanson. Andy is now the Peak Performance Athletic Lead at Elite Academic Academy in southern California. Elite's Peak Performance is one of the many offerings at Elite Academic Academy. There are links to Elite Academic below. Andy brings you information this week on his colleg…
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Today I highlight an X post from @SportsForceBB about their option on the new NCAA Scholarship and Team Roster rules starting in the 2025-2026 season of sports. This post talks mainly about college baseball, but the new rule will affect other sports and level of college sports and recruiting. You will get the 5 points that the @SportsForce BB post …
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I came across 2 posts on X on social media that I will cover in this episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. The 1st post was about the announcement that the National Letter of Intent will be eliminated by the NCAA Division I and Division II levels. I will give you the actual announcement and what the NLI was and how it might effect recruiting…
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A goal of Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is help student-athletes find their "right fit" college and college sports team. I would challenge the athlete to research and understand as much as possible about what their college experience will be like. Also, I challenge them to try to find a fit and give themselves at least 2 years to …
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The goal of Recruit Me, LLC and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is to help guide you to a "right fit" choice of a college for you. There are things I see and hear about in the recruiting world that are great successes, but there are things that upset me or make me sad. I covered in Episode 424 and 425 some pitfalls in recruiting journey. Pitfalls …
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Get definitions of verbal commitments at all levels of college play and why there is a risk to an early commitment for a High School Student-Athlete. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education. Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System FREE Recruiting Power Pack QRRec…
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Welcome to Episode 424 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. I'm Brent Hanks, the host of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, the Owner/CEO of Recruit Me, LLC and the father of 2 college baseball players. Our family's recruiting started back in 2015 and today's episode covers 3 of many things that make me sad in the recruiting world. Listen in and don…
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Episode 423 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is a look at the Recruit-Me.com website. I want to show you the resources available on the website and that you are not going get strung out for hundreds or thousands of dollars to get all the information or the help you need to get a spot on a college team or an athletic scholarship. The pages on the…
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Welcome to The Athletic Scholarship Podcast and Episode 422. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education. Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System FREE Recruiting Power Pack QRRecruiter.com promo code RecruitMe5 CollegeCoachesOnline.com promo code RM123 Listen to Past…
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Welcome to Episode 421 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This episode is a review of Steps 1 through 3 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship from the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System found on Recruit-Me.com. Episodes 414 through 420 cover each step, individually. So, today I am going to give you some personal insights and tips for …
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Episode 420 is Step 7 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship and covers the subject of Making Your School Choice Wisely. Steps 1 through 6 setup this step. Listen to how you pull together all your research and work to help you to make your "Right Fit" college choice. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of re…
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Welcome to Episode 419 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, hosted by Brent Hanks, the Owner & CEO of Recruit Me, LLC. Thiis is Step 6 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship. Those 7 Steps are featured in the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System on Recruit-Me.com. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of…
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Episode 418 covers the 5th step of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship. The 5th step is Track Your Communications. You need to have a plan and create a habit to make sure you collect all the information you need to make a "right fit" choice of the college and the athletic program you want to commit to. Tracking your communications will keep you …
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Epi 417 Step 4 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Build Your Own Recruiting Questionnaire
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Episode 417 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast, the world's longest running athletic recruiting education weekly podcast, gives you Step 4 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Build Your Own Recruiting Questionnaire. My name is Brent Hanks and I'm the host of The Atlhletic Scholarship Podcast and the owner of Recruit Me, LLC. Go to Recruit-M…
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Epi 416 Step 3 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Create Your 1 Sheet Player Profile
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Episode 416 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is Step 3 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Create Your 1 Sheet Player Profile. You will get the chapter of the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System manual that walks you through the process to create your own Player Profile, which is your resume. This document is the key to getting a c…
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Episode 415 is Step 2 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship and it walks you through why writing a great Introductory Email is a critical part of your recruiting process and then gives you a model of how to write it. Key points from this episode are: Send a personal email to coaches Your email should be brief. Write it as a 1 page and with just…
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Epi 414 Step 1 of the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship; Select the Right Schools to Contact
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Welcome to Epi 414 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This is the 1st of 7 episodes that will cover the 7 Steps to An Athletic Scholarship from the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System. This episode is a little shorter than normal and is a little later than normal. I'm in Canada and my oldest son, Parker is getting married today! There's al…
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Welcome to Episode 413, the 2nd part of the Recruiting Weekly Tips. This week you get the recruiting tips that will hit social media on weeks 36 through 52. Quick tips about recruiting and your recruiting journey like, information on showcases and ID camps, how to build a recruiting team, how grades effect your recruitment and how Recruit Me is for…
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Episode 412 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast gives you 35 short pieces of recruiting advice that I will soon publish on Recruit Me's social media sites. Dig in and pick out the tips that will help you to get recruited. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education. Recruit-Me.com Rec…
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Episode 411 gives you insight into how the transfer portal effects the high school student-athlete. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education. Recruit-Me.com Recruit-Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System FREE Recruiting Power Pack QRRecruiter.com promo code RecruitMe5 CollegeCoachesOnl…
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Welcome to episode 410, of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. In past, The Athletic Scholarship Podcast episodes I have referenced the cornerstone of Recruit Me, the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System. The Recruit Me 3.0 System includes a 200 plus page manual and includes a workbook and worksheets. I have covered the Seven Steps to an Athlet…
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Episode 409 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is a review of the interview with Scott McCowan from episodes 407 and 408. Scott, the father of a current D1 women's basketball player, gave us a look into his daughter's and his family's experience through Raegan's recruitment and her first year of college and college basketball at Western Illinois U…
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Epi 408 An Interview with Scott McCowan; The Father of a D1 Women's Basketball Player, Part 2 of 2
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Episode 408 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Scott McCowan. Scott is a past college basketball and football player, a past college basketball coach and is presently the father of a college basketball player. His daughter, Raegan, just finished her freshman year on the Western Illinios Lady Leathernecks basket…
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Epi 407 An Interview with Scott McCowan; Father of a DI Women's Basketball Player, Part 1 of 2
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Episode 407 is Part 1 of a 2 part interview with a friend and past competitor from our high school days. Scott McCowan is now an insurance agent in Lebanon, Missouri, but also the father of a current women's NCAA Division 1 basketball player and he is a former NAIA level basketball and football player himself. Scott also coached college basketball …
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Welcome to Episode 406 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast has goals of providing student-athletes and their families with as many free and expensive recruiting resources and advice sources as possible. Go to Recruit-Me.com to get started with Recruit Me by getting the FREE Recruiting Power Pack and …
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Welcome to Episode 405 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me Monthly Newsletter. Get monthly tidbits of recruiting advice and education. Back in September of 2023 I interviewed Karl Barkley from D3Direct. Episodes 370 & 371 gave you a look it NCAA Division III sports and recruiting. Karl and D3Direct also have a pod…
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Epi 404 Recruiting Inspired by an Indeed.com's Article; How to Get the Job You Want in 8 Steps
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Episode 404 compares an article from Indeed.com called How to Get the Job You Want in 8 Steps. I take the 8 steps in the article and compare it to the 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship that is found in the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System. Listen to how Indeed's 8 steps compare to Recruit Me's 7 Steps to an Athletic Scholarship. Select t…
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Episode 403 has some inspiration from Episode 401. It made me think of reasons and advantages a student-athlete gets from playing a sport in college. I go back to my college sport experience and also lean on the experiences during Parker's, my older son's, 4 years at Northwestern playing baseball for the Wildcats and my younger son's, Sutton's, cur…
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Episode 402 is a deep look into how many opportunities are out there for you to play your sport in college. I my observations through my college experience, my older son's college experience as a college baseball pitcher at Northwestern University and my younger son's current experience as a outfielder at Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri brin…
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A week ago I got a text from a father of a student-athlete that reminded me of Myth #1 About Athletic Scholarships. Myth #1 is one of ten myths listed and answered in the Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System Manual. Go to Recruit-Me.com to get access to the ecruit Me 3.0 System for only $39. Myth #1 listed in the Recruit Me 3.0 is: If my chil…
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Welcome to the historic 400th episode of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. The Athletic Scholarship Podcast has been a weekly recruiting education podcast since 2015. The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is the world's longest running recruiting education podcast. You get a peek into the Recruit Me and The Athletic Scholarship Podcast as I continue to …
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Welcome to Episode 399 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. We are on the doorstep of our 400th episode and this episode is a look back of one of the past episodes. The past episode in review is Episode 37 and is titled How Do You Rise to the Top. Jon Fuglar, the original host and founder of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast brings you 3 helpful poi…
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Bet on yourself has a lot of angles in your recruitment. This episode was inspired by me listening to another podcast called the Never Stop Getting Better Podcast hosted by a local football head coach at Nixa High School, Coach John Perry. Episode 78 of the Never Stop Getting Better Podcast was an interview between Coach Perry and the head football…
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Welcome to Episode 397 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. One of the most important, challenging and fun parts of the recruiting process is building your college school list to contact. Recruit Me's philosophy is that you need to recruit colleges to recruit you. There are free and inexepensive resources out there to help you to build your college…
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Welcome to Epi 396 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. Here is Part 2 of a 2 part interview with Wayne Woosley, the owner of QR Recruiter. Go to QRRecruiter.com. In this episode we cover the technologies affliated with QR Recruiter, the future of QR Recruiter and the many ways QR Recruiter helps you get recruited. Click Here to join the Recruit-Me…
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Welcome to Epi 395 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. This episode was delayed from last week. I missed publishing the episode because I was on a trip to Argentina and my computer would not power on, either on the plane or at the house we stayed in. I had planned on finishing the publishing on the 11 hour flight down there. So here is Part 1 of a…
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Welcome to Episode 394 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. The Recruit Me 3.0 Athletic Scholarship System is the cornerstone to the Recruit Me business and to your recruiting success. Today I give you the older follow up information after you purchased the Recruit Me 3.0 System. These follow ups give you some great recruiting advice and tips. Clic…
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This part 2 of a 2 part interview with the father a college rower. Aaron Boutwell, an old friend from my college days at the then Southwest Missouri State, His daughter, Molly, in a rower for the Indiana University Hoosiers. Listen to last week's episode, episode 392 for the first part of this interview. This week Aaron and I cover Molly's rowing s…
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Welcome to Episode 392 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast. I get into the world of women's college rowing. This is part 1 of a 2 part interview with Aaron Boutwell. Aaron is the father of a current college athlete that is on the Indiana University rowing team. In this episode you will hear about Aaron and his connection to athletics in college ath…
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Episode 391 of The Athletic Scholarship Podcast is the 4th episode in a 4 part series about what each year of high school student-athlete should be doing here in January of 2024. Use your freshman year to prepare for the recruiting journey and to do research on both recruiting and research on colleges and college sports programs. Topics like: Acade…
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Today's episode, Episode 390 is the 3rd episode in a 4 part series. Episode 390 is called New Year Recruiting for the 2026 Grad which covers the Sophomore year of the 2024 high school student-athlete. The Sophomore year is a vital year for a potential college student-athlete to prepare for the most recruitable time, your Junior year. The Sophomore …
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Episode 389 is a 30 minutes long interview with Chance Potts. Chance is an ex-college athlete, the father of college athletes, a coach, a business-person and owner of One More Benefit, a Mental Fitness business. Today we hit on Chance's recruiting experiences and what mental fitnes is and how it helps you in your sport, life and recruiting. Chance …
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