Put Me In, Coach: A Parent’s Guide to Winning the Game of College Recruiting
PUT ME IN, COACH is an award winning, must-have guidebook for parents and their student-athletes who want to be recruited to compete in athletics at the college level. Because of limited roster spots, only a handful of high school athletes will play their sport competitively in college and even fewer will get NCAA or NAIA scholarships. For your child to be one of them, you need a game plan, and the earlier you start, the better. If you are the parent of a student-athlete who is better than
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How to Win Rotc Scholarships: An In-Depth, Behind-The-Scenes Look at the Rotc Scholarship Selection Process
Winning an ROTC scholarship can relieve a student of the prohibitive costs of a college education. Totaling more than ,000 over four years, these scholarships have become the most comptetitive in the nation, with tens of thousands of applicants every year.
Chuck Brewer, who has served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, and as a member of an ROTC scholarship selection board, has written this guide to provide an edge to those applicants who want their applications to stand out form
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Review by P. Gregory for Put Me In, Coach: A Parent’s Guide to Winning the Game of College Recruiting
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Put Me In, Coach is an excellent tool for the parent of any high school athlete considering playing college sports
As the team manager of a competitive girls’ club soccer team, I was hoping to help our players and parents learn about the process of college athletic recruiting including: the differences between Divison I and Division III programs; the availability of both athletic and nonathletic scholarships for athletes; questions a parent and athlete should seek the answers to, to help determine whether a player is “good enough” to play college sports; and a plan to be implemented during each year in high school in pursuit of becoming a college athlete. Put Me In, Coach, addressed all of those questions and much more in an easy to read style. I highly recommend this book for all high school athletes interested in playing college sports and their parents.
Review by Brad Bennett for Put Me In, Coach: A Parent’s Guide to Winning the Game of College Recruiting
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Wow, I feel like I was just pulled from the parenting bench, coached with the best playbook around and sent into the game. With twin 10 year old boys who are very athletic, I’ve been looking forward to many years of bleacher-sitting — hoping someday college coaches would call. This book has shown me that I’ve got to be as much of a game changer as my boys are when it comes to a possible future in collegiate athletics. The book gives both “big picture” things to be aware of (keep the grade up) as well as very helpful tactical tools and direction (put this info in your letter to the coach). It’s a book I’ll go back to many times in the years ahead.
Review by Laurel J. Podgorski for Put Me In, Coach: A Parent’s Guide to Winning the Game of College Recruiting
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As a parent of three – two interested in college sports – I had always been under the false assumption that their high school coach would walk them through the entire process.
Sooner rather than later, I came to the unfortunate realization that the parent and athlete were solely responsible for the athlete’s collegiate future.
Put Me In Coach, has been a lifesaver for me and my family. It walked us through each decision, and answered most of the abundant questions that I, and presumably most other parents, had in the recruiting process.
I highly recommend this book to any parent who’s children have even the slightest chance of a future playing a sport in college.
Review by Jody in Illinois for Put Me In, Coach: A Parent’s Guide to Winning the Game of College Recruiting
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Put Me in Coach is a MUST READ for anyone who has a child contemplating playing a sport in college.
It is a great “how to” book that provides valuable information that, until now, was not readily available in a single resource. The author’s style is very inviting – almost like having a conversation. Put Me in Coach! is easy to read, well organized, full of examples and very informative.
The best time to “first” read this book is when your child is in middle school. However, if they are already in High School buy it now and read fast! The college search and application process is difficult enough without the added pressure of finding an athletic fit. The author helps you think through the various options (Division 1, 2 or 3) and provides food for thought for you to realistically assess your athlete’s potential for play at the various levels. With that and your athlete’s time frame, you can craft a path for your search.
Review by Susan M. Harris for Put Me In, Coach: A Parent’s Guide to Winning the Game of College Recruiting
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As the parent of three college-age kids who all explored the idea of playing sports in college, believe me… this is the definitive guide. This book would have saved me a lot of trial and error and, more importantly, a lot of angst over the process had it been written at the time we were going through this process.
Even if you are not sure whether your child will be interested in pursuing sports at the college level, you should read this book. It helps set up the ground rules and the “have to’s” along the way. It can also help you assist your child while they sort through the important elements to consider as they contemplate sports in college. The format is simple and easy so you can just refer to one chapter at a time as needed.
Although our family has been through this process successfully with two college athletes happily ensconced in exactly the right schools for them, we will definitely use this book to guide our thinking as our youngest heads off to freshman year of high school.
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As a father trying to help his son get a scholarship, this book was a blesing. Not a whole lot of fluff in here, this book gives it to you the ways it is. The insight into how the process worked really helped. The guidance obviously worked; my son recieved a full 4 year Naval ROTC scholarship! AWESOME! I can’t tell you how much tuition this book saved our family! And more importantly, our son can serve his country.
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I was just an average applicant and this book helped me win a 4-Year Navy Option Scholarship. Do what the book says and follow its examples and it will lead you to a ROTC scholarship.
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I bought this book because I thought maybe this small … purchase can save me tens of thousands over the next few years, and it did. I just won a Full 4 year scholarship to Niagara University (Top ROTC school in northeast)This book works, it flat out tells you tricks on how to win the scholarships.
Review by leeann for How to Win Rotc Scholarships: An In-Depth, Behind-The-Scenes Look at the Rotc Scholarship Selection Process
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This is a book intended to provide in-depth answers to very specific questions re the ROTC scholarship process.
To those who read that first sentence as a rather trivial statement, allow me to clarify: this book will NOT try to substitute real content with sweeping statements paraphrasing that which you already know, nor will it waste your valuable time indulging in rousing propaganda, e.g. “Military service is a training wheel on the patriotic bicycle of lifelong success..” Again, this is a book intended to provide in-depth answers to very specific questions re the ROTC scholarship process.
There are several chapters, but painting in broad strokes, the book can be divided into four discrete parts:
** BACKGROUND INFO: Provides context. The author carefully defines the scope and focus of your ROTC scholarship efforts and pays particular attention to the differences and requirements for each military service branch.
** ARE YOU ROTC SCHOLARSHIP MATERIAL: Delivers an honest assessment of where you need to be in order to have a fighting chance (with insider tips on where the flex spaces exist in the process).. This section is not intended to make you believe that anyone can receive the scholarship if only they want it badly enough; it’s meant to help you determine whether you have, say, a 20%, 50% or 80% chance of winning a scholarship, and how best to maximize those odds. With this in mind, I highly recommend this book to students who are in their frosh/soph year of high school (and their parents/guardians) — by the time you reach your junior/senior year, it’s going to be difficult to acquire or incorporate many of the activities and skills that will make your application pop.
** THE PROCESS: Walks the reader through the application process, without glossing over points. This is incredibly valuable, as so many other resources choose to focus on only one aspect while neglecting other areas. I can’t stress enough the importance of having a full and robust understanding of the entire process — you cannot possibly anticipate and prepare for that which you don’t know exists. Brewer provides practical (actionable) advice re essays, tests, intellectual/physical requirements, etc. He also explains the rationalizations driving much of the ROTC process + procedure.
** INTERVIEWS AND SELECTION: Identifies the roles and scope of authority of the ROTC scholarship board members, and explains precisely what happens behind closed doors (including an excellent overview of point allocations). Essay requirements may make the process appear, to a degree, somewhat subjective but there is a clear approach and methodology that is applied by those who serve on the scholarship committee. Not all elements of the application process are given equal weight — this section alone is worth 10x the cost of the book.
And keep in mind that all of this is written from the perspective of an officer who has served on the ROTC selection board, not from someone who has merely gone through the application process. Go ahead and check out forums if you want feedback from people who have already experienced this as an applicant; buy this book if you’re looking for the competitive edge that comes from having an insider’s perspective.
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PS. I did notice that one reviewer gave the book one star, noting that you can find all of this information on the internet. That is a true but empty statement: you can find *anything* online.. The question you need to ask yourself is: are you really sure you know what to search for?
Review by KB for How to Win Rotc Scholarships: An In-Depth, Behind-The-Scenes Look at the Rotc Scholarship Selection Process
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Excellent resource. I had no idea what to expect but was very pleased with the purchase. It was very clearly written and made the process very transparent – particularly the chapter on diversity.