Did you know this about Tampa Bay's Evan Longoria?

How did Evan Longoria overcome the constant rejection that he went through as he was not even recruited by any D1 schools out of high schools and was barely recruited by D3 schools.

What changed?  He mastered the mental game!

Check this video ... very informative as it supports what TCWPreps is promoting with Brian Cain.



E:60 Evan Longoria from E60 on Vimeo.

Report: Va. Undergrads to Pay 7.9 Percent More

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A new report says undergraduates at Virginia's public colleges will pay an average of 7.9 percent more this year in tuition and mandatory fees.

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia released the report Monday. It says in-state undergraduates will pay an average of $704 more, while community college students will pay about $285 more.

The overall increase is less than last year, when tuition and fees went up an average of 10.6 percent.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Testimonial from Coach Sikora of Dominion HS in Loudoun County

As a Head Coach it's sometimes difficult to find time to expose your players to college scouts,  TCWPreps was able to notify me of an opportunity for one of my players [Ryan Doyle], and now he's signed to play at the next level.  It was an extremely easy process.  After responding to an email from TCWPreps, my player was signed within a couple of weeks.  I found the service to be fast and professional, and would definitely use it again.

Rob Sikora

Head Baseball Coach

Dominion High School

College recruiters feedback and testimonials!

Coach Milburn,

Thank you so much for the continuous updates and your work. It has been valuable to us and is great information!

Billy Daniels '06
Director of Baseball Operations

LIBERTY UNIVERSITY ...40 Years of Training Champions for Christ: 1971-2011






I think it would be great to have pre-season audios from the head coach on his team preview, especially if they ear marked specific players who had college ability no matter what grade level.

Matt McGuire (Ferrum College)

MP3 format could be helpful, but I would keep them to a couple of minutes and give them a format for the information, typically written info is better because it is easier to reference from my side. The written info should be a consistent format too.


Brandon Hall (UNC-Charlotte)

I think this would be great to get a preview of each team. It would help us zero in on which players we need to pay close attention too.

Mark McQueen (Head Coach-University of Richmond)


It’s a plus anytime you can get a heads-up on the talent in a particular area. That way you don’t feel like you’re wasting your time. I like what you’re doing. Wish there was someone in every state with your drive and passion to centralize a recruiting system like you’re doing. Keep it up!

Will Gardner (Head Coach-University of Maryland Eastern Shore)


I think it would help narrow down who we would consider taking the time to go see and recruit. Certainly couldn't hurt.

Ryan Connolly (VA Tech)

As the Head Baseball Coach at a highly selective Division III college, it can often be difficult to find the right student athletes to recruit.


We are looking for the right combination of athletic ability and academic achievement. We are also somewhat limited with our recruiting budget and are often unable to travel long distances to see high school players play.

Coach Milburn has provided a number of good leads on talented student athletes in the state of Virginia, and we look forward to continuing to work with him in the upcoming years.

Craig Hanson (Head Baseball Coach Dickinson College)

I would like to recommend  to all parents and coaches to use The Commonwealth Preps (Coach Milburn) service because it works.


Example, on May 16 he got me a players name, school, phone, stats, coaches name for follow up, about a unsigned high school player still looking for colleges. We were able to get the player to come visit the campus talk about education first then baseball, campus tour, and tour our great baseball facilities. On Thursday, June 9 we received a phone call from the player and the verbally committed and has been sent his National Letter of Intent to sign, all within 24 days.


We feel this service is well worth using.

John Bailey (Head Coach-Danville Community College (NJCAA DIV. II)

Middlesex's (2011) Harley Moore commits to Dickinson College!

Our son, Harley, has been playing baseball for as long as we can remember. He has attended many camps and taken pitching lessons for several years. He has played the travel ball circuit and participated in quite a few college prospect events. Harley always wanted the chance to pay ball in college  while getting a strong education We, as parents, felt we were doing everything right in terms of getting him proper instruction and affording him lots of exposure to college coaches. Little did we know that his pitching video would prove to be the most valuable tool?

We hired Rich Prado of Play In School to film and create the video.  [Coach Milburn discovered the video while searching for Harley's high school coach's e-mail address.]  We had never met Jeff, yet he took it upon himself to send Harley’s pitching video to his college contacts for their consideration. He sent us an email to alert us to his actions and mentioned that we might get a “few” emails from coaches. Within 3 hours, we received over a dozen emails from coaches from all over the East Coast. One contact piqued our interest and turned out to be the perfect mix of a great baseball program and solid academics.  To make a long story short, Harley was recruited by Dickinson College and received a substantial educational grant to pursue his studies and baseball, as a direct result of Coach Milburn’s efforts.

The recruitment process can be a daunting and expensive pursuit without a game plan. There are many people you will meet along the way who will love to take your money with little promise of any meaningful results. Coach Milburn has made a commitment to assist Virginia players with this process, and to offer them as much exposure to as many potential schools as possible at an affordable price. Obviously, his college contacts value his input, as evidenced by the number of responses we received by his one email. We would recommend Coach Milburn’s services to anyone who is looking to play baseball in college. He can be instrumental in exposing various baseball programs to you while broadening your college search, as well. With any luck, you will have your perfect school fall into your lap like Dickinson did for Harley. 

Thanks, Coach Milburn!

Nancy Moore

P.S.  Keep in mind that, while D1 and D2 give athletic scholarships, D3 schools can offer substantially more money in terms of educational grants…and they might be better academic institutions. You can attend a school that might be otherwise financially out of reach for you, get a great education, and play baseball, too!

Thank You!

We just want to thank you to all who have taken advantage of our recruiting service!  We know that the TCWPreps will get you the best bang out of your buck!

This is an on-going rolling registration process and open to all of the student-athletes in VA.

"Daily Starting Pitcher's Assignments" log for the college recruiters

Every HS program has the option to enter their starting pitcher into a secured site where the college recruiters will have secured access to view who is pitching where across the commonwealth.

The goal is to have the starting pitcher entered into the system the night before and at the latest on 12noon on game day.

Again, if any member of your high school coaching staff enters the information, then the college recruiters will be informed.

This is a very easy way to promote the pitchers across the commonwealth.

TCWPreps 5-page info flyer is available!

If you want a copy, please e-mail us along with your name and high school and we'll get you a copy.

Manchester's Tyler Rankin got a special one-on-one introduction

Tyler Rankin was TCWPreps first student-athlete to enroll in our recruiting service this week and as a result of that, we gave Tyler a special one-on-one introduction to our recruiters who have signed up to receive TCWPreps student-athletes prospects database.

Perfection Turkey Calls delivers once again!

Perfection Turkey Calls steps up to the plate and delivers once again ...

TCWPreps to offer free video streaming of HS baseball games

Attn: High School Coaches, to enter your kids profiles

Click on the following link below which is also on the right side of this page.

 
High School Coaches Platform

TCWPreps recruiting service program update

The following high school baseball programs (52) have informed TCWPreps that they have student-athletes interested in taking advantage of our recruiting service opportunity.

High School Coaches Platform

Altavista High School 
Amherst
Bland/Rocky Gap
Booker T Washington
Broadway High School
Buffalo Gap High School
C.D. Hylton
Chilhowie High School
Clover Hill
Cosby High School
Culpeper
Flint Hill
Franklin County High School
Fredericksburg Christian
Gate City High School
Goochland High School
Handley
Hargrave Military Academy
Harrisonburg
Henrico High School
Heritage (Leesburg)
Heritage (Lynchburg)
James River High School (Midlothian)
JR Tucker
Kempsville High School
Kettle Run High School
Lee High School
Liberty (Bealeton)
Louisa
Madison County
Massaponax
Midltohian High School
Millbrook
Nelson County High School
New Kent High School
Norfolk Christian High School
Park View High School
Potomac School
Riverheads High School
Rural Retreat High School
Salem High
Sherando High School
Stonewall Jackson (Manassas)
Surry County High School
Varina High School
Washington & Lee (Montross)


March 7th:
Thomas Dale
Briar Woods
North Cross School
Woodside High School
North Stafford

March 10th:
Mountain View High School

Official press release of TCWPreps!

This was released to the commonwealth's sports media folks today at 3pm.

TCWPreps official press release!

Calling ALL high school SOFTBALL coaches!

We want to help you but first we need to get you on our mailing list.

If you have not signed up yet, please click on this link below:

Virginia high school SOFTBALL coaches sign-up sheet

**** Both Public and Private schools ****

What is the fee for our recruiting program service?

"The Commonwealth Preps" staff is happy to share that the 1x registration fee for our recruiting service program can be as low as *eight-dollars and seventy-five-cents per year based on when you enter the system.   The 1x fee covers you until you graduate! 

Just to clarify, when broken down, it can be as low as *8.75 per year!

Full details have been shared with every high school Head Baseball Coach today February 23rd.  Your high school coach should be sharing this information with you by Wednesday March 2nd.

*special introductory rate for baseball prospects entered into the system by March 13th. 

VHSL passes measure to allow coaches to work with athletes almost year-round

Please comment and tell us what you think about this new rule?

VHSL passes measure to allow coaches to work with athletes almost year-round

Attn Head Coaches ...

If for some unknown reason, you are not receiving e-mails from us ... Please contact us directly at 571.354.6494 or Email Us

Results of the Head Coaches survey!

We want to thank those head coaches who took the time to complete our survey so we can better help you, your kids and the college recruiters.  Our survey was sent out to nearly all of the 366 Head Baseball coaches (both public&private) within the commonwealth.

Results of the survey are as follows with questions answered by the Head Coach.

(Q) Do you enjoy filling out the recruitment questionnaires/packets and especially when you have to repeat that process many times over for one player?

52% said no
25% said yes
20% said sometimes

(Q) Would you like to have a system where you could enter that information 1x and share it with an unlimited number of college contacts?

100% said yes

(Q) If you were a college recruiter, is there anyone place where you could go on the net to obtain as much information as possible on as many Virginia high school players that is clear and concise?

89% said no
11% said yes ... no such place exists; maxprep; maxprep; ?

(Q) Do you enjoy fielding and returning phones calls to the scouts?

50% said yes, does not take up that much time
 7% said no, takes up too much of my time
34% said I rarely get any calls
 9% said I never receive any calls

(Q) When do you know who will be your starting pitcher will be for the next game?

61% said after the previous game
34% said the day before the game
 0% said by 9am on game day
 2% said by 12noon on game day
 2% said 2hrs before the game

(Q) Would someone on your staff be able to enter your starting pitcher and any prospects that are NOT playing for the next game?

93% said yes
 7% said no

(Q) In reference to having a MASTER schedule online with all of the district standings, do you agree that we should wait until next year to work on having a MASTER schedule/district standings available to the public?

73% said yes
26% said no

(Q) Would you like to see this program available to your kids?

34% said yes
 9% said no
36% said maybe

We thank you for your time in taking the survey.

We encourage feedback; please feel free to share your comments below.  Anonymous comments are welcomed as they are subject to moderation.

Recruiting Videos 101, they do help sell you but do your homework!

There are many services out there that produce recruiting videos.  Do your homework and shop around to see what is the best service for you and your family.

If your family has a digital camera and you have someone to record a basic workout, then you can produce a very respectable recruiting video yourself.

For examples, just get onto YouTube at the following:

BASEBALL recruiting videos examples

SOFTBALL recruiting videos examples

No doubt about it, a brief 2-3 minute video will help sell yourself to any baseball program.  Game film is not necessary, need to be more concise in filming you batting, fielding, running and throwing and/or pitching. 

Get one done so you can reference it on your prospect data sheet that your high school coach will use to input your profile into our system.

Any further questions about recruiting videos, please send us an e-mail or give us a call.

Coming soon by Feb. 25th!

Every BASEBALL high school head coach in the The Commonwealth of Virginia will be receiving all of the details about this great opportunity to help all involved with high school baseball!

On Tuesday, Feb. 15th, every head coach was informed of a brief overview about "The Commonwealth Preps"

If your head coach did not receive such e-mail, then have them contact us directly at 571.354.6494 or Email Us

Thank You for your payment!

We appreciate your payment and allowing us to the opportunity to help you!

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Attn: TCWPreps student-athletes, Coaches and/or parents, make your payments here!

Dear TCWPreps student-athlete and/or parents of the TCWPreps student-athletes,

Please read and understand the following, you have elected to participate in the recruiting service program that is being offered by TCWPreps.  The list of the college baseball programs and professional organizations who have signed up for free to receive your profile is readily available on this site.

Please understand that this service does not guarantee any results of participation.  This program will share your student-athlete profile with the college baseball programs who have signed up, telling TCWPreps that they want to receive student-athlete profiles who desire to play college baseball.

The only guarantee is that information will be made available to those college baseball programs and professional organizations. 

If there is a college of interest that is not listed, please send us the name and we will contact them to inform them that there is a student-athlete interested in their program and we will suggest that they sign up for the free service.

With your payment, you will have read and understand what has been stated.

Please enter the one of the two following special instructions on the last page before you confirm the payment.

Note to Coaches ... if you are going to pay for your own kids, please submit one payment and include the name of your high school along with the last names of your kids and their present year of high school in the customer special instructions field.

ex. "High School Name" FR-Doe, SR-Miller, JR-Simmons, SO-Burke 

OR

Note to Parents ... when making payments, please insert your son's high school name in the customer special instructions field along with present year of high school and his name.

ex. "High School Name" FR-John Doe 

Thank you for allowing us to help you!