Try to make a positive first impression, take a professional approach, and be thorough, complete, and accurate with the information you provide. In order to do this, it is imperative to know, document, and have the ability to speak about your involvement and achievements in athletics, academics, extracurricular activities, leadership, and community engagement. How can you document and keep track of your involvement? With an activities resume! An activities resume template can be found online in ICAN’s materials library at www.icansucceed.org/materials, or feel free to ask one of your teachers or your school counselor about a resume template that they might recommend.
Beyond creating an activities resume and keeping it updated, I believe it’s beneficial to have a copy of your activities resume with you while you’re filling out online questionnaires and applications. It’s also a good idea to create a separate, athletics specific document to keep track of athletics stats and information that you might need to share in the future. Here are some items that you might consider including in your athletics documentation:
- Contact Info: For the prospective student athlete, parent, guardian, school coach, club coach, school counselor, and other potential references: Names, addresses, phone numbers, cell phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and the best way to contact the references.
- Online Representation: The prospective student athlete might be asked to provide links to online athletics recruiting profiles, game film, practice highlights, and practice drills for evaluation. Social media handles may also be requested.
- Athletics: Years involved with school and club teams, positions played on teams, individual and team stats, individual and team awards and rankings, stats and times in competitive events for individual sports, strength and conditioning stats, training, fitness, agility, and sport specific practice drill stats.
- Academics: High school coursework, expected graduation date, high school GPA, high school class rank if applicable, standardized test scores, college prep courses, AP courses, college credit courses in high school, eligibility center status.
- Extracurricular Activities: Years involved, school activities, community activities, clubs, organizations, project management, fundraisers, volunteering, service learning.
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