BAVA offers specific help for players on our team with the recruiting process. We will help with making your skills video, creating a year by year action plan for contacting college coaches, proactively network with coaches on your behalf.
BAVA’s recruiting resources are proprietary and you must be a player on a team to have access to the information. Please contact the BAVA Recruiting Coordinator, Lauren Leventry, (bavarecruiting@gmail.com) if you need copies of this information.
Step #1 in the recruiting proces----tell your coach and parents you want to pursue volleyball in college! Your BAVA coaches will help and guide you through the rest!
Everything and anything you want to know about college sports can be found here! Items of interest found on this site: Guide for College Bound Athletes, differences between DI, DII, and DIII, recruiting calendars, and more!
All prospective college athletes should be registered here at the beginning of their junior year. This site tracks your eligibility to be a college athlete.
This site will give you a simple way to search for schools that meet certain criteria. Some of the criteria include size, distance from home, majors, sports, cost, etc.
If you are interested in playing volleyball in college, you should register at University Athlete. This is a free website where you create a volleyball profile, listing information about your volleyball experience, teams, education, etc. College coaches use this service to find players at the bigger tournaments. The initial information is loaded from the tournament websites, but additional information can be input by you. It is highly recommended that you add more information about yourself, it's free!
If you are interested in playing volleyball in college, you should set up a profile on this website. This is a free website where you create a volleyball profile, listing information about your volleyball experience, teams, education, etc. It is highly recommended that you add more information about yourself, it's free!
Information on National Letter of Intent: http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/nli/nli/about+the+nli/index.html
List of Div. I programs: http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/volleyball-women/d1
List of Div. II programs: http://web1.ncaa.org/onlineDir/exec/sponsorship?sortOrder=0&division=2&sport=WVB
List of Div. III programs: http://web1.ncaa.org/onlineDir/exec/sponsorship?sortOrder=0&division=3&sport=WVB
List of NAIA schools with Women’s Volleyball: http://www.playnaia.org/schoolsearch.php
Online resource for searching schools using your own criteria:
http://www.collegeview.com/collegesearch/index.jsp
http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/index.jsp and click Start Here under MatchMaker
Guide for the College Bound Athlete 2011-12: http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/CB12.pdf
Recruit Zone – an excellent online resource for recruiting information: www.recruitzone.com
Princeton Review - Test prep, online school applications, scholarship searches: http://www.princetonreview.com/
College Source – categorizes links to hundreds of other resources for college: www.collegesource.com
College Confidential – topics range from test prep, admission, college life, financial aid and more: www.collegeconfidential.com
Essays – a wide variety of info. including financial aid, essay info, selecting colleges as well as info for student-athletes: www.essay4college.com
Financial Aid – scholarship and financial aid information: www.finaid.com
Fastweb – scholarship and financial aid information: www.fastweb.org
FAFSA – free application for federal student aid: www.fafsa.org
Money for College – comprehensive online financial aid tool for parents: www.money4college123.com
CSS – Financial Aid Profile: http://student.collegeboard.org/css-financial-aid-profile