{"id":63844,"date":"2021-01-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=63844"},"modified":"2021-01-24T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T11:00:00","slug":"podcast-15-college-recruiting-at-a-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/24\/podcast-15-college-recruiting-at-a-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast 15 – College recruiting at a distance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alex Porter joins me for this episode. Alex is the head coach for the volleyball performance program at the University of Essex<\/a> in England. His teams have won a national championship and multiple cup competitions. He was with me on two of the original Coaching Conversations discussions. One was Coaching in the UK<\/a> with Audrey Cooper and Simon Loftus. The other was Playing Opportunities in the UK<\/a> where a pair of his former Essex players joined us to share their perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This talk kind of flips around the topic of that second Conversation in that we talk about the recruiting process from the coaching perspective. Alex does a lot of his recruiting without being able to see his prospective future players live in-person. As such, he’s got a lot of experience with what many of us have had to shift to thanks to COVID – or have to deal with simply because we lack the budget (and\/or time) for extensive recruiting travel.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Alex mentioned the Worklife podcast by Adam Grant. That’s under the TED umbrella. You can find out more about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mentioned Beth Launiere’s book Stop Competing and Start Winning<\/em> in the discussion. You can see my review of that book<\/a>, and also listen to this episode<\/a> of the MasterCoaches Weekly Buzz to hear more about it from Beth herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex mentioned four services he uses to recruit international players. They are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n