Bryn Mawr Field Hockey Recruiting Timeline

(Maggie Barilla - 2025 First Team All-Centennial Conference, 2025 NFHCA First Team All-Region, 2025 NFHCA Division III Senior Team Selection)

Recruiting Timeline

Summer before Junior year
We begin asking for transcripts, to ensure we're talking with students who are qualified enough academically.
A great time to visit campus while the field hockey/school/etc. schedule is a little lighter.

Our last Bryn Mawr Field Hockey recruiting webinar was in February 2024 with several of our players and a recent alum…here's a link if you're interested in hearing more of a student perspective about everything Bryn Mawr and Bryn Mawr Field Hockey: Webinar Recording.

August-October
We begin sharing as much information and insight with you into why Bryn Mawr and our team is worth investigating! From our stunning campus (called the most beautiful in the country!), to the unique learning environment, to what it means to be a women's college in a co-ed consortium, to our playing style and team culture!

In the fall, you can come visit us for a day, sit in on classes, have a meal in the dining hall, watch a training session etc.. 

We also start to connect with parents/families about Financial Aid and assess affordability through the Bryn Mawr Net Price Calculator: https://npc.collegeboard.org/app/brynmawr.  Even though the calculator is currently calibrated for the 2026 class, filling it out in fall of junior year is a great way to get a ballpark estimate of family contribution to tuition to know if Bryn Mawr is a viable financial option!

November-December
We watch you play as often as we can (through June and summer camp season). If you'll be at Festival/Shooting Star, local indoor tournaments, or other recruiting showcases, send us your schedule!

We also host our next Prospect Clinic on Saturday, November 14 : https://gobrynmawr.com/sports/2024/5/2/fieldhockey-camps-and-clinics.aspx.
 
Prospect Clinics provide a great inside look at Bryn Mawr, our coaching style, and a chance to spend time with our current team.  Almost all our current players attended clinics at Bryn Mawr during their junior year.  Getting to work with you and watch you play on an AstroTurf is essential.
 

January-February
We host our Winter Prospect clinic on a Sunday in February, collect mid-year academic information from juniors, and continue watching you play at outdoor and indoor tournaments and showcases.  Including Winter Escape, Disney, the NIT, and other local tournaments. After fall/winter hockey evaluations and academic check-ins, we move forward with our priority recruits.

March-April
During this period, we invite a select few juniors for official visits (See below for the distinction between the two types of visit) offering a full look at daily life for a BMC player.

A prospective student-athlete is allowed to take one official visit per institution, per NCAA rule.
 
Typically, we begin to make roster offers in March and April after visits and based on a review of mid-junior-year academic progress.  We will continue to make offers through May and June going into senior year.
 

May-June
We continue to make roster offers and conduct academic pre-reads beginning on May 1 based on junior year grades to that point, senior year class selection, and a short writing prompt. This is an official assessment of where a student may stand in our admission pool.

We also host a summer ID Clinic in late June as the last on-campus event in our recruiting cycle.

Summer after Junior year
If the pre-read feedback from our admission office is encouraging, we move forward to a final assessment of affordability using our online Net Price Calculator (this tool is updated each spring, so we have families run it one more time in conjunction with the pre-read, to be sure of our information).

We complete our class around the start of summer going into your senior year of high school

(though extenuating circumstances may affect a particular student's timeline, both earlier and later)

(Novy Goetgeluk - 4x NFHCA Scholar of Distinction, 4x NFHCA National Academic Squad Member)

What Our Process Involves

Video
Nothing fancy, just send us what you have (make sure we know your #, and what color jersey). We highly encourage all recruits to have both a "full" game video and a highlight video – different coaching staffs will prefer one or the other. Here at Bryn Mawr, we don't have a preference, really, just as long as we can see you play!

While we will almost certainly see you play live too, video can help complete the picture of what you do on the field and serve as a quick reference as we debate our priority students.

Unofficial visits
A one-day trip to campus paid for by the student/student's family. You may visit us as often as you like, and our doors are open to prospective students interested in field hockey at any time. Just contact Coach Victor and we'll help coordinate. Any student may visit campus unofficially regardless of class year, and there is no limit to the number of visits.

Official visits
A full day and/or overnight stay on campus. We provide meals for the prospect student and lodging if you're staying overnight.  You'll sit in on a class or two, spend time with the team, really get to live a typical day of a Bryn Mawr Field Hockey player!  The official visit may be taken at any point after January 1st of the junior year, and a student may stay overnight only once per institution.
 

Current Coaches
Recommendations from colleagues are valuable, and we encourage your club and/or high school coach(es) to touch base with us. That inside knowledge helps us communicate and evaluate a bit more clearly!

ID Clinics / Summer camps
Our November, February, and June ID Clinics are vital to us; almost all of our current team and verbal commits attended an ID Clinic.

We attend many summer camps, and value the chance to see you repeatedly over the course of a camp, have the opportunity to actually coach you and get to know you a little better than we can by just observing games.

(Hazel Miller - 2022 First Team NFHCA All-Region, 2022 Centennial Conference Offensive Player of the Year, 2022 First Team All-Centennial Conference)

Admissions Core Metrics

(Google: Common Data Set Bryn Mawr College for the federally-required information.)

Top tier of metrics to evaluate applicants:
Rigor of Secondary School – top priority for the admission committee
Recommendations -  Teacher recs are vital to an applicant's success. 

Second tier of metrics to evaluate a candidate:
Essay / Extracurriculars / Character / GPA

• GPA - depending on the rigor of the curriculum, how many AP and/or Honors courses, etc.  67% of BMC applicants are in the top 10% of their class, 93% are in the 25% of their class in high school.
• Bryn Mawr values students who will contribute to the community in a variety of ways; the often-transactional nature of college and college admissions is 180 degrees from the Bryn Mawr ethos.  Successful students at Bryn Mawr understand that by investing in the community and in each others' successes, they create an educational environment for themselves and all those around them that is mutually beneficial.
• We are test-optional!