All-American Tennis Camp director and Men’s and Women’s tennis coach at Case Western Reserve University, Todd Wojtkwoski was featured this week on popular high school recruiting website, tennisrecruiting.net in the “ASK THE EXPERTS” section.  Coach Wojtkowski runs the popular All-American Tennis Camp at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH.

The article is a Question and Answer session with Ross Greenstein of Scholarship for Athletes, a consulting company for high school students and their families looking to compete in college athletics.

It is an interesting Q&A session that helps understand what is involved in the recruitment of young student athletes for college athletics.  This is a growing industry and one that can be quite confusing to many young players and their families.  In fact, in 2009, The All-American Tennis Camp founded a speciality tennis camp – THE COLLEGE PREP CAMP, that focused on many of the realities of college tennis.

Coach Wojtkowski summarizes exactly what college recruiting is all about in the following quote.

Scholarship for Athletes (SFA): At SFA, we try to explain to our clients that the recruiting process is like being on a job interview; is that how you view the recruiting process?

Todd Wojtkowski (TW): I think that this is a very accurate way to look at the process. Simply put, it is a job interview because the player is “selling” or convincing the coach/school why the player would be a valuable asset, and why that school would need that player.

There are many minefields in the college recruiting process and it is vitally important that young players, that are hoping to go on and play college tennis, get as much information as possible on what is involved in the process.  Often the difference in going on and competing at the collegiate level comes down to gathering the right information.  Companies like Scholarship for Athletes and camps like the COLLEGE PREP camp are great resources for those with the aspirations to take their game to the next level following high school.  To read the full article, click here.