The Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship Podcast with Brent Hanks
This is the podcast for parents and athletes that explores every aspect of recruiting and athletic scholarships. It’s coaching you can apply to your family’s athletic scholarship pursuit. It’s primarily for parents, but student-athletes will benefit, too. The host, Recruit-Me CEO Jon Fugler, has been helping families since 2002 and is an expert in the athletic scholarship field.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 477
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
EP #36: Scholarship Success is All About the Right Fit
Recruiting expert Jon Fugler talks a lot about the right fit, but what does that really mean?
In this episode, you'll meet a man who has dedicated his life to making sure athletes find the right prog…
EP#35: How to Keep From Getting Burned
Don't get burned in your pursuit of an athletic scholarship.
In this episode, recruiting expert Jon Fugler helps you take three proactive steps so your efforts don't go up in smoke.
This recruiting …
EP #34: A Scholarship Athlete Shares His Story
Hear from a former scholarship athlete in this episode and learn from his recruiting and college experience.
Taylor Mathis was a D1 scholarship swimmer, but how he ended up where he did was not the w…
EP #33: Direct From Spring Training: 5 Questions You'll Need to Answer for Any College Coach
Are you ready to give confident answers to the most important questions when a college coach contacts you?
Parents, are you preparing your son or daughter for the penetrating questions college coach…
EP #32: Five Things You Must Do on a Campus Visit
One of the most impactful things an athlete (and parent) can do is make a personal visit to a college campus. More questions can get answered by the in-person experience than any other way.
Plus, yo…
EP #31: The Best Thing a Parent Can Do for Their Athlete
Parent, you have the most critical role in the recruiting process.
That statement may surprise you, but it's absolutely true. Yes, your athlete has to have the talent and the commitment, but without…
EP #30: Five Places to Get Discovered
How to get discovered by college coaches is a mystery to most sports families.
However, it doesn't need to be. There are indeed five places that student-athletes can get discovered.
Of course, ther…
EP #29: The Many Emotions of the Recruiting Journey
What you're feeling right now isn't unusual.
The recruiting journey is a highly emotional one. Ups and downs are normal and sometimes the downs seem overwhelming.
In this episode, hear about one f…
EP #28: Q and A with Parents and Athletes
This is a Facebook Live simulcast. Recruiting expert Jon Fugler recorded it four days ago on Free Coaching Friday. (You can view the video replay on the Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship Facebook Pag…
EP #27: Help from the NCAA
How does FREE sound to you?
It's a great word, and in this episode Recruit-Me CEO Jon Fugler walks you through some valuable NCAA resources that will shine some light on recruiting.
All these resour…
EP #26: Overcoming Your Biggest Recruiting Challenge
Your recruiting challenges are not unique. Other families have faced the same ones. Some families have overcome them. Others have failed.
In this episode, recruiting expert Jon Fugler zeroes in on…
EP #25: A Scholarship Athlete Speaks Out
In this episode, you'll hear advice from a scholarship athlete who has gone through the recruiting entire process, received the scholarship and has completed her four years at a terrific program.
Rec…
Ep #24: Dream Big. Think Small.
The terms "Dream big" and "Think small" seem contradictory. When it comes to recruiting and athletic scholarships, they go hand in hand.
In this episode, recruiting expert Jon Fugler explains why yo…
EP #23: 3 Actions to Launch a Successful 2017 Recruiting Campaign
Don't drift into 2017. LAUNCH into it.
That's the focus of this episode. Jon Fugler lays out three things you can do that will supercharge your first 15 days of 2017. And he also explains how you …
EPISODE FLASHBACK: Recruiting Insights From a College Coach
This is one of the 5 most popular episodes of the past year and we wanted to release this Flashback Episode during the Christmas season. We take you back to what was originally Episode 04.
If your s…
EP #22: Recruiting Success Steps for Year-End
We all like to finish strong. Whether it's a season, a game, a match or a race, we want to finish strong.
That's what this episode is all about. Recruiting coach and Recruit-Me CEO Jon Fugler shares…
EP #21: How to Get the Right Recruiting Advice
There's so much info swirling around out there about athletic scholarships.
How do you know when you're getting good advice or bad advice? In this episode, Recruit-Me CEO and scholarship coach Jon F…
EP #20: How to Spend LESS to Get an Athletic Scholarship
Pursuing an athletic scholarship is supposed to KEEP money in your family's bank account, not deplete your account.
However, many families spend a huge amount of money pursuing the scholarship dream …
Ep #19: 10 Winning Moves to an Athletic Scholarship
Did you know that there are 10 things you can do to make sure you stay on the right course to an athletic scholarship? You could call them the 10 Recruiting Rules, and Jon Fugler digs into them in t…
EP #18: Ten Common Recruiting Mistakes
If you knew how to avoid the most common recruiting mistakes, you'd be thrilled, right?
In this episode, Recruit-Me CEO on Fugler shares the top recruiting mistakes families make. Know these and you…