High School Football Recruiting: a Quick start Overview

Association football is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world

Over the US states, the Association high school football season will have ended by late December, but the recruiting process by which college soccer offer scholarships to high school seniors often starts in the summer, before the school year and football season begin. Physical assessment is primary the most important key part of the recruiting process. High School football camps are usually held at college campuses where a large number of potential recruits can be evaluated simultaneously in various speed and skills drills. Aspiring high school football players are evaluated based on running dash, agility shuttle, vertical jump and the number of repetitions on the bench press that they can perform at a given weight. Based on performance over the course of their careers and at camps, colleges will typically take potential recruits on tours of the campus and athletic facilities, or the college may have its team's coach visit the recruit at home or at school.

While all colleges do much of their recruiting from local and in-state high school football camps, where they can network with HS coaches and booster clubs, the nation's top college programs can easily recruit athletes from around the country. Some colleges have historically been aided in this regard through their prominence within their religious affiliation, such as Notre Dame or BYU.

Students who played for larger high school football camps, or who competed in nationally-televised matches, have a natural advantage towards recruitment, while players who competed at smaller schools - such as most states' 1A and 2A categories - will have their skills and achievements judged versus the lower-caliber opposition they faced and, as such, are rarely considered as top prospects. Occasionally, though, a student at a smaller school will receive a full scholarship by their visibility by sending out sports video highlights of their playing skills to some online sports recruiting websites.