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Turn Your Fencing Highlights into College Opportunities.
Stand Out to College Coaches
Coaches often don't have enough time to see every prospective athlete compete live. With On The Strip, your best moments are showcased immediately giving you a competitive edge over athletes without videos.
Demonstrate Your Technique and Fencing Style
Video allows coaches to see your technique, bout and action strategy, athleticism, and manner of carrying yourself on strip. These are things stats and national rankings alone can't convey.
Expand Your Recruiting Reach
Coaches can share your video highlights with their staff. Your skills get exposure to multiple decision-makers, increasing your chances of getting noticed and recruited.
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The Importance of Video: A Key to Collegiate Fencing Recruitment
For nationally competitive fencers, the journey toward collegiate fencing can feel like navigating a complex maze. It's a goal that has been there from the beginning. But the closer you get, the more unprepared for the recruitment process you feel. With only a handful of prestigious universities with fencing programs, the competition is fierce, and standing out can seem daunting. In this landscape, video highlights have become a critical tool for showcasing your talent and dedication to college coaches.
Why Video Highlights are Essential
The reality is, most college fencing coaches recruit based on watching athletes compete firsthand. However, if a coach isn’t able to see your bouts live at the strip, a well-crafted video can be your greatest asset in showcasing your talent and getting noticed.
College coaches are busy professionals with demanding schedules. When they attend NACs or Summer Nationals, they physically can't be at every strip, watch every pool, or follow every DE bout. As a result, some athletes might get overlooked. Video highlights provide a powerful solution, allowing coaches to assess your skills and performances that they might have otherwise missed.
Highlight videos offer a concise and compelling way to showcase your technical abilities, tactical awareness, and competitive edge. They provide coaches a first-hand look at how you perform under pressure—something that’s hard to capture in stats and tournament finishes alone. If you want to create a successful recruiting profile, highlight videos are a must.
Key Statistic: Online recruiting profiles with video highlights receive over 12x more traffic than those without.
The Role of Video in Gaining Visibility
Video highlights don’t just bridge the gap; they create unmatched opportunities for visibility and discovery for top ranked fencers. Coaches have access to the FencerScout recruitment database of every aspiring collegiate fencer in the country- with video highlights adding life and action to this massive list of profiles. Not only can coaches evaluate new talent and candidates, but they can deeper familiarize themselves with names that might have already been on their radar.
With advanced video discovery features, coaches can easily browse newly uploaded highlights and receive recommendations tailored to their program's needs (ie a program in desperate need of epee fencers to fill spots of graduating seniors or need influx of female or male fencers for Title IX reasons). All of this means that college coaches can explore fencers who may not have been on their radar. This means your athlete’s video doesn’t just support recruitment—it initiates it.
Grab a coach’s attention, prompt further evaluation, and even set up crucial in-person meetings at tournaments. If you’re reaching out to college coaches to initiate conversations, include a link to your FencerScout profile in your message. This allows coaches to quickly view your video highlights and learn more about your background and academic fit to their program. By showcasing your child’s skills in the best possible light, video highlights on the FencerScout profile ensure they don’t just participate in the recruitment process—they stand out in it.
A well-crafted video highlights collection does more than just display skill; it shows that an athlete is serious about their aspirations. It communicates professionalism, commitment, and a proactive approach to recruitment. These are qualities that resonate deeply with college coaches.
What Coaches Look for in a Video
Fencing is a sport of precision, strategy, and split-second decisions. Videos allow a coach analyzing a new prospect to look beyond tournament finishes and rankings and see the "how."
Here’s what they’re looking for:
Technical Proficiency:
Precision in execution, footwork, and actions.
Strategic Thinking:
Tactical decision-making during bouts.
How your athlete adapts to different opponents and scenarios.
Competitive Demeanor:
Composure under pressure.
Demonstration of sportsmanship and resilience.
Feature Highlight: Videos uploaded to FencerScout’s On the Strip profile extension are formatted to ensure coaches can quickly and clearly identify the athlete they’re evaluating. This streamlined presentation saves time and helps coaches evaluate the above and make informed decisions at a glance.
Tip: Learn Best Practices for Highlight Videos
Creating an effective highlight video takes more than just recording a bout. It’s not only about filming—it’s about knowing how to select the right clips that showcase what college coaches are really looking for. That’s why we’ve developed the FencerScout Best Practices for Video Highlights- a comprehensive guide to ensure your athlete’s video stands out and gets noticed.
FencerScout's On the Strip: The Future of Recruiting Videos
Creating and sharing video highlights shouldn’t be a guessing game. With On the Strip, your athlete’s videos aren’t just another email attachment or a random YouTube link—they’re a professional, integrated tool that puts them directly in front of the right college coaches.
Here’s why On the Strip changes the game:
Effortless Accessibility
Videos are seamlessly embedded within the athlete’s recruiting profile, eliminating the need for coaches to sift through emails or track down YouTube links. With everything in one place, coaches can quickly evaluate athletes without extra hassle.Built for Fencing Coaches
Unlike generic video platforms, On the Strip provides clarity and context that fencing coaches need. From highlighting the athlete’s position on the strip to pairing videos with fencing stats and academic details, it’s a system designed specifically for college fencing recruitment.Opportunities for Discovery
When videos are part of FencerScout’s searchable database, they don’t just stay static—they work for you. Coaches can discover athletes they might never have otherwise seen, leading to conversations, outreach, and recruiting opportunities that simply don’t happen with isolated YouTube links.Maximum Visibility
Sharing is effortless for coaches, allowing them to collaborate with their staff and easily circulate athlete profiles and videos. By staying plugged into the college fencing ecosystem, On the Strip ensures your athlete’s talents don’t go unnoticed.
Conclusion: Open the Door to Prestigious Schools
In the competitive world of collegiate fencing recruitment, video highlights are not just a helpful addition—they’re a necessity. They provide a powerful way to showcase your child’s talent, get noticed by college coaches, and open doors to prestigious schools.
With FencerScout, you can ensure your child’s videos are presented professionally and reach the right audience. Don’t let your athlete’s hard work go unnoticed. Start creating their video highlights today and take the first step toward making their collegiate fencing dreams a reality.
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