Your Volleyball Email

Jason
Jun 3, 2022
3 min read

Updated: Nov 14, 2023

I talked a few weeks on my podcast (Link below) about what families can do when they are just getting started. The "When should we start?" question is one I get a lot. The truth is there is always something that you can do and in many ways the earlier you start the better.

One of the first things that you can do is create a volleyball email address. Name and grade year @ gmail or wherever you want to have an email address. If you create this account early then you can use it for everything involved with your athletes volleyball life.

Use this email for your SportsRecruits or NCSA account if you choose to make one. Use the same email for your high school Hudl and club Hudl account. This will let you have both your high school and club film all in the same spot. Plus you can use Hudl as your profile link and it's just as helpful as SR or NCSA in that regard. Using this same email address for your UA account will help down the road as well. If you're a parent of a 8th-10th grader and haven't created a volleyball specific email account I would highly suggest it. I think it can be really nice to have all of your "volleyball is life" emails in the same place.

Creating a volleyball specific account will give parents the ability to check it and keep tabs on it early on in the process. Hopefully your athlete will learn to use the email account for contacting college coaches and doing other recruiting tasks, but it can be helpful for parents to have access to the one place you are filtering all of your volleyball info. I would also encourage athletes to put this email account on their phone. You'll want to get used to checking this account and responding to emails you receive. College coaches are still using email as their main source of communication. They will email you. If you don't email them back, chances are that someone else did.

If you're about to be a high school freshmen or sophomore, then you have a year or so to create some good communication habits. Responding to emails from schools, even camp invites is a great start. Things can happen rather fast on June 15th of your junior year and you want to make sure that you aren't missing anything. Creating some healthy habits with communication now will only help you get in front of more college coaches but it will also help you stand out more.

Creating a volleyball specific email can really simplify a lot of things going forward in the volleyball and recruiting world. Streamline some of your communication and keep everything in the same spot so you don't have to look in different accounts for different emails from different schools. If you're asking the question, "What do we do to get started?" or "When should we start recruiting?" an easy answer is to start with a volleyball specific email address.

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