Contacting college coaches is a critical component of successful recruiting. If you want to get recruited, you have to put yourself in front of coaches. We interviewed 40 top college coaches and here's what they said about what captures their attention and how they choose which players to send a response:

1. Use email - Contacting colleges coaches by email is really the only way to go. Coaches spend most of the day at the computer. Sending physical mail just makes it that much harder for them to respond. They have to manually enter all your information before they respond to you. If you contact college coaches by email, they can just hit respond and write you back.


2. Be specific - Your email should contain specific details about the college you're contacting. Let's face it, college coaches get lots of recruiting email. And a lot of it, quite frankly, is spam. Your email should show that you've researched the school and that you didn't just send the same letter to a zillion coaches.


3. Include a player profile - Your email should arrive with a recruiting profile that includes pictures, video, statistics, and all your academic info. The more filled out your profile, the more likely you are to get a response.