Welcome to The Recruiting Roadmap!
3 resources to supercharge your college field hockey recruiting journey
I’m Alan Good - associate head coach at Liberty University, assistant coach with USA Field Hockey’s U18 Women’s National Team, and former club coach.
My newsletters have one goal: help you navigate college recruiting without the BS, wasted time, or expensive mistakes most families make.
I’ve been on both sides of this. Club coach helping players get recruited. College coach doing the recruiting. The gap between what families think this process is and what it actually is? It’s massive.
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Most families come into recruiting with good intentions but no system. They're either completely disorganized or focused on the wrong things.
I've put together three resources that fix both. The first gets you organized. The second changes how you show up. The third gives you the depth you need to avoid expensive mistakes.
Here’s what you need:
1. Get The Recruiting Dashboard →
The free tool that organizes your entire recruiting process
Stop drowning in notes, emails, and dates you’re supposed to remember. This Google Sheet helps you build your college list strategically using my bespoke Five To Find The Fit framework (academics, athletics, financial, geography, social).
It also includes a Gap Analysis tool that compares your assessment of each school with your club coach’s ratings - so you know if you’re being realistic or need to recalibrate.
Use it as-is or customize it. It’s yours.
2. Read: A quiet team is a losing team →
Most players think they just need to show up and play well at showcases. They’re wrong.
At Shooting Star, one of the biggest recruiting tournaments in the calendar, I watched dozens of teams. And the pattern was impossible to miss: the quiet teams lost games and recruiting opportunities.
This isn’t about being loud for the sake of it. It’s about what college coaches are actually evaluating when they watch you play - and why most players completely miss this.
Read this before your next tournament. It might change how you show up.
3. Upgrade to The Recruiting Roadmap Premium →
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The free newsletter is valuable. But if you want every possible edge, including:
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Or, if you want 24/7 access to all my recruiting guidance, check out The Recruiting Advisor - an AI tool trained on everything I teach, available to answer your questions anytime. ($29/month, 7-day free trial)
Why start here?
Because I’ve watched hundreds of families make the same expensive mistakes:
Building unrealistic college lists that waste months
Writing forgettable emails coaches delete in 10 seconds
Missing red flags on campus visits because they didn’t know what to look for
Damaging crucial club coach relationships without realizing it
Showing up to showcases with the wrong focus
These aren’t your fault. Nobody teaches you this stuff.
But you don’t have to figure it out the hard way.
What’s next?
Start with whichever resource fits where you are right now:
Need to get organized? → Grab The Recruiting Dashboard
Playing tournaments soon? → Read A quiet team is a losing team
Want ongoing insider insights? → Upgrade to Premium
Want a 24/7 recruiting process coach? → Try the Advisor
Best of luck with it all!
Alan