When it comes to softball recruiting, Wednesday, April 18th will go down in the record books as a significant day. How it will play out will take years to realize, but this we do know now:
- starting next Wednesday, April 25th, the first day that college coaches can begin establishing recruiting contact with a prospective student-athlete (“PSA”) will be Sept. 1 of the athlete’s junior year (pending NCAA Board of Directors’ approval on April 24th).
- it does NOT affect the status of “verbal commits” but these players will not be able to talk recruiting with the college coaches of the school they’ve committed to until that date.
- club and high school coaches can have conversations with college coaches but there are restrictions on what is permissible and not permissible.
For us at Extra Inning Softball, we will continue tracking recruiting and profiling athletes and their recruiting journeys, no matter what form they may take moving forward!
Key to this will be our searchable “Extra Inning Softball Signing/Verbal Database” which will be updated regularly each Wednesday (the announcement yesterday pushed the launch back a day this week).
We expect news will continue to come out and our searchable database will reflect the new additions and corrections… for example, since we ran our first static commit list on Tuesday, Extra Inning Softball has received 50 new signing & verbal updates through Wednesday and another 10 since the Early Recruiting legislation was announced yesterday (which will be included next week)!
Forwarding Info to Us:
Extra Inning Softball is looking for current club players (Class of 2018) and younger so please send us any signing/verbal info you have for the classes of 2018, ’19, ’20, ’21, ’22, etc. to any college level: DI, DII, DIII, NAIA and Junior College.
- PLAYERS: go to our Contact Us page and fill out the info in “I Committed!” (2nd tab down)
- COACHES: email [email protected] data to match the spreadsheet below.
Extra Inning Softball’s Signing/Verbal Database (April 18, 2018)
How to use: put multiple requests in the Search Box—for example, “2019”& “UCLA”—to filter down to specific information.