I've seen hundreds of highlight tapes through the
years; I've seen my fair share of outstanding videos
as well as a great deal of terrible ones. We decided
to write this article to help players going through
the recruiting process that would like more advice on
how to create a highlight tape. This advice alone
can't guarantee you a scholarship but it will give you
the best chance to show what you can do for a college
coach.
Do This With
Your Highlight Tape
Highlight where you are on the field or court
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Never make a coach guess where you are.
Put your best play at the beginning of your
highlight tape
- One chance to make a first
impression.
Ask your parents to film games - If your school
film is terrible get someone who will do it right.
Quality is very important if you have to pay
someone to have your film professionally done.
Use quality packaging for your DVD
- Again you want
it to be professional so that a coach has no
reason not to watch it.
Double check maybe triple check the DVDs before
you send them to coaches
- What a waste of time and
money to send a DVD to a coach that doesn't work.
Avoid This When Creating A
Highlight Tape
Including every highlight - Every assist or tackle
is unnecessary, try to keep your highlight under 5
minutes
Putting bad film on a
highlight -If the quality of the
film is bad just exclude that from your highlight
don't give the coach a reason to turn off your
highlight film.
Include same play from
different angle -Your wasting a
coaches time with replays and different angle
shots. Unless of course you did something truly
amazing
Write on your DVD with a marker - You want to look
as professional as possible and a marker just
doesn't scream professionalism.
Spending to much money on your highlight tape -
Waste of money to spend that much and sometimes
coaches will think your film is too good to be
true.
Relying on a friend to create a highlight tape -
"Johnny" is a nice guy but it's always best to
have a back up plan.
If you have a highlight video ready to go and need to
send it to coaches, use our coaches database to send
your film to thousands of coaches from NAIA - Division
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