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In the recruiting process, I am looking forward the top athlete. Then I have to do my homework. And the first piece of homework that I do is, I contact that athlete and get a transcript.
My first responsibility is to make sure that I am responsibly recruiting, and that I am recruiting a student athlete to Franklin & Marshall who can first and foremost succeed academically here.
If there is a question in my mind that that student wouldn't be academically successful here, nine times out of ten, I stop recruiting her. The reason being that if a student athlete comes to Franklin & Marshall and struggles academically, it's going to affect her athletic career. And so, it's kind of a short-sighted recruiting cycle if you are recruiting just an athlete that is a great athlete.
In the Division-III paradigm, you have to recruit a great student athlete, and so the first thing we look at is their academic record. And if that works out, then we go forward, but we are trying to find the top student athletes. What that basically means is, we are going off and up against the Ivy League. We are going up against some of the top schools in the country that are Ivy because academically we are similar, the time commitment, individual one of three is different, but academic resumes of Ivy League students and students at a school like Franklin & Marshall are similar.
So are we going to get every one of those kids? Absolutely not. But they are the kids that we are looking at, the top athletes, the top lacrosse players, but then, we first and foremost look at their academic transcript to see if academically they are compatible. And if all that checks out, we continue the recruiting process; if not we don't recruit that too.
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