Recruiting
Helping our players to reach their goal of playing at the collegiate level is one of the most rewarding parts of our job. We take recruiting very seriously and will work very hard with our athletes to find the perfect fit. There is nothing more enjoyable than to watch former M1 athletes make their own mark, both academically and athletically in the program of the college of their choice.
COLLEGE COACHES
M1 utilizes SportsRecruits. Click here to access the Mizuno M1 Volleyball SportsRecruits database, or view individual profiles for current recruitable M1 athletes below.
M1 MEMBER RECRUITING RESOURCES
sPORTSRECRUITS PROFILE AND PLATFORM
M1 is using SportsRecruits to make sure you have all the tools necessary to tackle your college recruiting process.
It is crucial to have an online presence where college coaches can find you, review your information, and evaluate you as a student-athlete in one place.
Within the platform, you can filter schools by division, conference, and college major to determine schools that are of interest to you. You can introduce yourself to college coaches with the built-in messaging system and see which college coaches have viewed your profile. Click here to learn how to get started and to see all of the features of your profile.
Recruiting One-on-Ones / Player Consults
M1 offers Recruiting Sessions for both M1 athletes and their parents for personalized recruiting process advice. Common topics: the “do’s” and “don’ts” of timely and effective communication with college coaches, creating a highlight video, setting up a SportsRecruits profile, how to build a list of target schools, etc.
To schedule a meeting for further help and instruction in these areas, please contact M1's Recruiting Coordinators.
RECRUITING COORDINATORS
ALEX OAKES
Email: alex@m1volleyball.com
Cell: 218-428-4262
OLIVIA WELSCH
Email: olivia@m1volleyball.com
Cell: 651-331-1679
RECRUITING VIDEO DEVELOPMENT
Highlight Video Examples
Want to have your highlight video made for you? Contact ryan@m1volleyball.com!
Highlight/Game Footage Editing
VIDEO - key component & mandatory if an athlete wants to be seriously considered as a viable option for many colleges.
First and Foremost a player must have current highlight/game footage in order to give themselves the best opportunity to be recruited by multiple schools. Many a player has been passed over because college coaches are not given a chance to view a video of them. For those that do not feel comfortable editing their own footage, M1's Marketing Coordinator, Ryan Bergman can be hired to assist. Contact Ryan for pricing: ryan@m1volleyball.com
There are 2 options available
Option #1: Editing Recruiting Video (footage sent to Ryan) - $250
With this option Ryan will take the footage sent and pick the best skills, compose and edit a complete highlight video with a cover page and player highlighting when needed. Just share your footage with Ryan and he will go through and find the different set of skills/plays needed for a complete highlight video that makes the player look their best!
Option #2: Video-Taping Skills Session + Editing (completed by Ryan) - This includes the court, coach, shooting of the session, composition and editing of film in addition to uploading to the M1 Youtube channel.
Total Package: $310 ($250/editing + $30/hr for shooting + $30/coach)
*$25 off normal private lesson
Combination #1 & #2: If you don't have enough game footage but would like to combine it with footage from a lesson, we can do a combination of both options. The price will be the same as Option #2. We encourage getting some game footage in your videos if you have it!
University Athlete is the premier communication tool connecting college coaches and student-athletes. They don't sell athletes to colleges nor promote them in any way so the coaches trust them and use their services. UA combines the convenience of an online database with powerful mobile software to assist coaches' recruiting efforts at tournaments. At a tournament, colleges can instantly find any player, identify new players, evaluate and take notes without losing valuable time needed to watch the action. More than 300 Div I and more than 500 Div II, III, Juco, and NAIA programs use University Athlete.
Athletes
Using sports as a path to college education is on you. The data UA gets from rosters is minimal, and often critically bad. A wrong graduation year in their system means college coaches might cross you off their list. A mistaken jersey number means they recruit someone else thinking it's you. Fix the errors. Add photos and links to your videos. Don't rely on someone else to get you to college.
RECRUITING EDUCATION RESOURCES
NCAA Eligibility Center
Create a Certification Account - $90 fee
NCAA (DI, DII, DIII) Member Schools
National Collegiate Athletic Association
NAIA Eligibility Center
Create a Certification Account - $80
NAIA Member Schools
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
NJCAA Member Schools
National Junior College Athletic Association
NCCCA Member Schools
National Christian College Athletic Association
M1 COLLEGE COMMITMENTS
| Class of 2024 | College |
|---|---|
| Ellery Clark | Tufts University |
| Zofia Keogh | Franklin Pierce University |
| Isabelle Saffert | Carnegie Mellon |