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A Guide to the Women’s Cross Student-Athletes’

College Recruitment Country Recruiting Guide to College


Process Guidelines Recruitment

Tells needed times no Yes No

Breaks it down by ~y Yes No


division

Official Visits Yes No Yes

When to start No ~y Yes

What questions to ask ~y No Yes

How to reach out to No No ~y


coaches

What to send to Yes No ~y


coaches

Focus on Cross No Yes ~y


Country

Affordances: ​The point of these articles is to help high school students who are seeking to run
cross country in college, the details that will help them hopefully succeed and find the right
college for them.

Constraints: ​Some cross country athletes will not think to look for articles on recruitment due to
the idea that cross country is not a popular sport. They also might just have coaches reaching out
to them, and accept the process that is happening and not look into it more to do a thorough job
when meeting with the coaches.

Organization: ​Typically guidelines will be labeled by sections, this is so if the reader is looking
for a specific topic, an example would be questions to ask the coaches, this makes it so the reader
does not have to go through the whole article to find what they are looking for.

Tone: ​The tone tends to be friendly and laid back since it is just an informative piece that people
will typically read in their leisure time.
Evidence: ​The writer usually will target a specific sport, since each one has a different recruiting
process. They will make sure to put the sport in the title which will attract the readers to the one
that they are looking for.

Exigence: ​The idea of college cross country recruitment is very common, because most
parents/athletes are not sure what they need to do or even where to began. Most cross country
athletes struggle because it is a looked over sport and most of the recruitment guides are for
football, soccer, or even field hockey.

Writer: ​The writer will usually be someone who has had past experience with the recruitment
process or a coach, or the NCAA division leaders because they need to make guidelines for the
coaches/schools and athletes.

Primary Audience: ​The primary audience is student-athletes that are looking to run in college
and want information on the college recruitment process. It also helps athletes to know what to
do and how to sound informative when going up to coaches.

Secondary Audience: ​This one could be parents, they are trying to get their children into a
college athletics program and want to be able to help them through the process. It could also
include high school coaches, because they can help prepare their athletes for the recruitment
process and even help by reaching out to college coaches.

Writer’s Goal: ​The goal of recruitment guidelines is to get student athletes more familiar with
the recruitment process and better prepared on what steps to take.

Context/ Background: ​Typically, recruitment guides are to help athletes and parents figure out
what to do to hopefully get into the sport they want at the college they want. It seems that as the
years go on, the recruitment process, it helps to keep people up to date and makes it so that
families can give coaches the best impression possible.
Script:
The rhetorical genre that I decided to analyze was College Cross Country recruitment guides.
There are many different options that are out there to analyze, but I chose ones for Cross Country
because this is my sport and I found them helpful when I went through the process. I chose the
one that was like a blog post, one that was from the NCAA, and one that went into great depth,
but was not sport specific.

Slide 2: The exigence meets the need of student-athletes needing to know where to start for
college recruitment specifically cross country. It also provides athletes with who are in an
overlooked sport information that otherwise would be difficult to find as only an athlete. It is
meeting the needs of many high school cross country runners who otherwise would be lost in the
recruitment process because it is also not readily available information to high school cross
country coaches. It also provides a need for athletes whose parents may have no done high
school sports or parents who did not think of going into the college recruitment process.

Slide 3: When deciding where to go to college, you need to look at what level you are on. So, a
common convention of recruitment guides is that they break it down by the level and what kind
of times the coaches look for. Another very important part of recruitment is when to start, there
are many different tasks that need to be done leading up to recruitment, for example certifying
that you are an amateur through NCAA, this needs to be done your junior year of high school.
The official visits are very important because these will give you a feel for the coach, the team
and the campus, which when deciding where to go are very important. Official visits are a very
tricky thing, because you are only allowed five official visits, so you need to use them wisely.
Also, the dynamics behind them are very important when you become certified through NCAA.
Also, these guides focus primarily on Cross Country.

Slide 4:
The primary audience for these recruitment guides is the athletes. I know I used them when I was
going through the process. Typically, the recruitment process is between coaches and athletes;
the parents are present but mostly the athletes need to be proactive in the process while parents
sit back. The secondary audience would be parents and high school coaches. Parents need to be
aware of the process so they can help their child, but do not need to look up the recruitment
guides if their children are serious about being a collegiate athlete. High school coaches are a
secondary audience because they can also help their athletes out and even maybe reach out to
coaches or people they know, but to do this they need to be aware of the recruitment process.

Slide 5: The goal of the writer is to help provide high school athletes with the information they
need to be prepared to go into college recruitment. Ultimately, college cross country recruitment
is ever changing because NCAA continues to change rules and regulations. Therefore the writers
of recruitment guides need to keep them up to date. The writers of recruitment guides tend to be
either people who are involved in NCAA as an organization or people who have been through
the recruitment process. A writer could be prompted to write this because they had a child go
through the process and found it very difficult, which lead to them writing about it to inform
other athletes/parents.

Slide 6: To make recruitment guides easy to read they will have bolded sections that are labeled
and then subsections in each one to make it easy to find the information you are looking for. An
example of this would be if an athlete just wanted division three times, they would not want to
look through the whole guide just for a few times. I did not find that my examples had a
similarity in the way they were ordered. It was not like they all started with times, then when to
start, then official visits. Each one was pretty different in how they started. For example, one
started with a welcome letter. Another went straight into what times are needed for each division
and what event.

Slide 7: One of the problems that writers might not think of when making a recruitment guide for
cross country, is the limited awareness. Cross Country can be a looked over sport, therefore high
school athletes might not think to look for any resources, nor will their guidance counselors have
information on the sport. Another problem with recruitment guides is they can become outdated.
This means that readers could find one that is old and the process has changed. It is very difficult
to know if you are reading an outdated recruitment guide because the rules change so often. Even
one that is a year old could have incorrect information. On the other hand, recruitment guides
have a lot of affordances to them. They are easily accessible since most if not all of them are
online. Since, recruitment guides have bolded text and are divided into subsections, it makes
them easy to read and easy to find what the specific reader is looking for. Another benefit is
since the recruitment guides are online, it makes them public knowledge. It means that they are
not only available to people with a special membership or only coaches. It can be found by
looking it up.

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