The importance of work ethic during the athletic recruiting process
This entry was posted on 9/25/2008 10:45 AM and is filed under Boys Basketball News, Girls Basketball News.
As you can see by our college player blogs, they are required to do a great deal of intense workouts and conditioning prior to the start of actual basketball practice.
As we have stated many times, to be successful you need to have a good work ethic. College coaches want players that love the game and want to improve. They are investing their careers into players development and competitiveness. They want players that are competitive in games, practices and in the off season with their development.
The following is an excerpt from an article regarding work ethic from the website Recruiting-101.com.
"It doesn’t matter what sport you play, if you are hoping to continue that sport at the college level, you will need either a strong work ethic or an amazing God given athletic ability that allows you to get by without working that hard. The time and effort that you have to put into any sport, even at the Division III level, is much more than what you put in during high school. And that is a major reason why your work ethic is important at all levels.
Basketball coaches love to find players who are called a “gym rat” because he or she loves being in the gym hours everyday. Football coaches love to find athletes who have exceptional work ethics in the weight room and on the track trying to work harder than their opponents to make them the best athlete that they can be. And when coaches do their background work on athletes, laziness can really turn them off of a prospective recruit.
I recently had the chance to speak with a college coach about a player that he was recruiting. At one point, this Division I coach sounded sure that he would be offering this player. The player had done well during the summer and the coach was really serious about him. But he also knew that there were not all that many Division I schools showing him interest so he decided to do some background checking.
This coach was from the same area as this athlete and did what he could to find out information. Another college coach told him that there were rumors floating around that he was lazy and didn’t work hard. While some coaches can overlook that about prospects simply because they are that amazingly gifted, coaches will not do that about a borderline Division I athlete."
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The importance of work ethic during the athletic recruiting process
