Recruiting Forms and a Sickness

[exile lacrosse]

So now that im hip deep into the college search process im starting to fill out recruiting forms forr the colleges that i like, and anyone whos done this before knows that they ask for game tapes. So heres my story: About two weeks before tryouts this year started, i got pretty sick. When it didnt go away in a week and i was still feeling like crap i went to the doctors. they said that i might have mono. great. so i wait a week for the bloodtests and the day before tryouts start i am notified that i do not have mono, i had elevated levels of something or other which closely mimicked mono. So i went into tryouts, feeling a little bit better than i had, but probably 40 percent at best. well i kept feeling better each day and all was good. then about a week and a half or two weeks later i had a pretty bad relapse. I felt worse than i had the first time. So the doctors gave me some kind of antibi which seemed to work. Once again i started feeling better and then once again i had a relapse. This time they brought me back in and said that i could have pnemonia. After that i had to go get X-rays, and thankfully the next day i was told that no, i did not have pnemonia. but the doctor still said that i had to stay out of school untill my temperature went back down to normal (which was about 4 days) and after that i had to wait at least a week before i could play lacrosse. So by the time i could finally get back to the field (maybe this time at 80percent) our season was practically upon us. I had missed just about all of our preseason. Now remember i was on shaky ground playing time wise after tryouts because i was sick and played like crap. Missing most of preseason did me in: i got to road the bench that season (my experiances and feelings on this are a completely different story, but lets just say that i had started every other HS game i had ever played in). So consequently i have no video tapes of me playing in HS, but i do have tapes of me playing during a camp in the summer.

now heres my question: i want to know if i should write a letter to the coaches explaining why the game film is from a camp and not a HS season game. I thought that i should, but then my mom said that doing so might be a bad idea. whats everyone else's opinion and why?

[DukeLax2]

i would just send a tape after this summer or tell them you dont have a tape but give them dates to where they can watch you play.

[smooth87]

I don't know about sending a tape from camp... unless maybe you made an "All-Star" team or something like that and you played a full game. You don't have any film from this past spring?

[exile lacrosse]

I don't know about sending a tape from camp... unless maybe you made an "All-Star" team or something like that and you played a full game. You don't have any film from this past spring?

Not really. Like I said, I missed almost all of preseason and once coaches have their starters, thats the way things are. I went in on those games when you are up by 10 goals and the defence never sees the ball anyways. So basically, no, I dont have anything from the spring.

[SeanO39]

Are you going into your senior year?

I think the best way to go would be to describe your situation to coaches. If your fast maybe send a tape of you running sprints or give some stats from weight training or sprints?

[lilaxgurl23]

Coaches just want to see you play. They don't really care when it was, as long as it's relatively recent and against decent competition that is challenging you. Send a tape that features all aspects of your game and you'll be fine.