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Recruiting

Empowering Athletes’ Journey: VVA’s Team Effort in College Recruiting, Guided by Expert Kelsee Montagna.

Roles and Responsibilities in VVA's Recruiting Process

Everyone Plays a Part in Recruiting
At VVA, recruiting is a collaborative effort. Athletes must proactively engage in their recruiting, while our coordinator and coaches provide guidance, truth, and education. Coaches are key in networking with college coaches. Parents play a supportive role in recording games and aiding in college research and understanding.
*** ATTENTION COLLEGE COACHES: Please reach out to our Recruiting Coordinator, Kelsee Montagna, or the club coach with any questions about players. See roster page for details about players. University Athlete and Kelsee will have the contact information.
Staying Informed with NCAA Rules
Our recruiting coordinator keeps up-to-date with NCAA rules to assist in navigating college volleyball opportunities. Our goal is to find the right collegiate fit for each interested player, exploring the myriad of opportunities available.
Recruiting Focus Based on Age Groups
For athletes 15 and under, the focus is on education, film understanding, and college volleyball exposure, as significant recruiting is rare at this age. The serious recruiting process begins for athletes aged 16 and over, continuing through senior year. Our coordinator works closely with these families and athletes.
Getting Started with College Recruiting
To begin the college recruiting process, athletes should visit the ‘guidance for athletes’ section below and arrange a meeting with Kelsee to receive personalized guidance and support.

Guidance for Atheletes

Here are some tips and rules to help you out!
Key Resources for athletes and parents:

Important Recruiting Rules

Sophomore Year: until June 15th of your Incoming Junior Year
Coaches are permitted to:
  • Send you athletic or sports camp brochures, NCAA Educational Information and Questionnaires.
Coaches are not allowed to:
  • Accept phone calls or emails from prospective student-athletes - remember that if you leave a message on an answering service or send an email the coach is NOT ALLOWED TO CALL or EMAIL YOU BACK.
  • There can be no communication between a potential student athlete and coaches/athletic staff before June 15th of the conclusion of your Sophomore year.
  • Coaches cannot call you on the phone or send you any written recruiting information. They can, however, send you an athletics questionnaire.
  • Coaches cannot talk with you or your parents at an event.
Athletes are permitted to:
  • Go to a College Camp – But there can be no communication about recruiting, or offers Until After June 15th (Preceding your Junior Year). NO Recruiting Conversations are allowed!!!
  • Go on a college visit through their admissions office. You cannot have any interaction with coaches during the visit.
Junior Year: from June 15th
  • College coaches are allowed to send you information about their athletic program and about their school. This can include: media guides, schedule cards, personalized letters, photocopies of newspaper clippings and official university admissions and academic publications.
  • The college coach is now allowed to answer your emails and send emails to you, as well.
  • Coaches Can Now Text and Call you, and you can call Division 1 Coaches.
Junior year: (From August 1st) Through Senior Year
  • Athletes can make unofficial (when you pay all expenses) visits to a college campus.
  • Official visits (one per school) are paid for by the college.  An athlete is allowed an unlimited number of visits to Division 1 Colleges.

Official Visits

  • You can take an unlimited amount of visits (expense paid visits to college campuses). The visit to the campus cannot be longer than forty-eight hours in duration. You are not allowed to have an official visit until after August 1st of your Junior Year. You can take five over the course of your junior and senior year combined.
  • It is also permissible for you to receive a maximum of three complimentary tickets to a college sporting event.

Tournaments

  • If you’re at a tournament and the coach does not talk to you, don't take it personally. The NCAA has specific recruiting rules that put limits on communication at tournaments. A college coach can sit down with a coach at a competition site, but not with potential student athletes or Parents/Guardians.
  • College coaches cannot have any personal contact with student-athletes during tournaments. As stated above, a simple hello is fine but anything more is not allowed. This is why they may not seem very engaging if you approach them.
  • Rules have been relaxed recently in the NCAA to allow conversations after tournaments when the players are fully released from their duties and meet specific age requirements for those conversations. If a college coach asks you or your family to meet after a tournament, please discuss it with VVA before arranging it with the University.

Recruiting Checklist

  • Set up an email account and social media account (instagram or twitter) for recruiting purposes with parent permission
  • Create a sample email to send to coaches that you can customize to each school you send it to
  • Make a “wish list” of schools you would like to attend
  • Meet with your club coach, or someone you trust, to give you a REALISTIC evaluation of the collegiate level you can play at
  • Modify your list of colleges to match your level of play
  • Register with University Athlete and create a FREE profile
  • Create a highlight video 2-5 minutes on Hudl
  • Meet with Recruiting Coordinator to review your materials and discuss your options and strategy
  • Begin emailing schools to let them know you are interested and include your team’s upcoming tournament schedule and highlight video. Invite them to come watch you play. (If you don’t yet have a highlight video, just send an email inviting coaches to come watch you play.)
  • Continue to research at least 5 new schools per week and e-mail the coaches of the ones that interest you
  • Once you establish contact with a college coach, make sure that you continue to stay in contact with them and send them updated highlight video and even raw footage if they ask for it.
  • Organize your unofficial transcript after each semester, starting after your sophomore year
  • Meet with your coaches and/or mentors to check in with them and let them know what schools you have been in contact with
  • Register with the NCAA Clearinghouse
  • Register with the NAIA Clearinghouse

College Commits

2024
  • Coming soon!!!
  • Morgan Castaneda - American River College (Beach & Indoor)
  • Phoebe Constable - Fresno City College (Beach & Indoor)
  • Peyton Bitter - Fresno State (Track & Field)
  • Savana FauntLeRoy - Hawaii Pacific University
  • Dionii Fraga - Fresno State
  • Aidan Goodrich - San Francisco State University
  • Natali Herrera - Cal State East Bay
  • Jordyn Kwalwasser - Cosumnes River College
  • Kyra Miller - UC Merced
  • Sydnie Vanek - University of Arizona
  • Morgan Wilson - UC Merced
  • Emma Winter - The Master's University (Beach)
  • Jayden Xiong - Fresno State
  • Druegan Davis - Fresno City College
  • Mia Dilley - Fresno City College
  • Ashley Gilbert - Pasadena City College
  • Katelyn Goforth - Fresno City College
  • Alayna Grinstead - Cal Lutheran
  • Marissa Mendrin - Fresno City College
  • Renee Phillips - Colorado Christian University
  • Zoe Ruskofsky - William Jessup University
  • Gabby Russell - Santa Barbara City College
  • Evania Sanchez - CSU Dominguez Hills
  • Rhya Williams - UC Merced

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