Something else you can do for all those interested in academy IC athletics. Once you've gone to the athletics website and filled out the online questionnaire and let the coaches know you're interested, you'll usually get an email back from one of the coaches. If not, look up their name and email on the athletics website. Send them an email with a LOT of HOT-Links that they can simply CLICK. Do their homework for them. Put in all the links to newspaper articles, online articles, tv references, etc. of your achievements. E.g. Most sports has a writeup online in the local papers of the "Box scores" or similar the day after the match. If your name is mentioned in the articles because of points scored or some spectacular play, link that to the coaches in an email. Don't send them endless emails with a link or two each. Send them 1 email with the 5, 10, 15, 20 etc. links that mention your name. Points, defence, time, state champion, etc. For you football players; articles about "Play it smart". Basically, anything link that mentions your name and the sport. Even if it's only your small online school newspaper. Not everyone lives in a large city with state wide or national coverage. The athletic department, teams, and coaches have a lot of interested people. Recruiting season sucks. Especially trying to validate if you're actually worth a crap as an athlete. It doesn't say much if you're BEST football player on the "Wheatland Wyoming High School Team". But if you happen to have one the state championship, all conference/all state, Gatorade Player of the year, or a lot of newspaper and online articles about your athletics and academics, that will definitely mean something.
Remember; as many student athletes that the academy recruits and make into cadets, there's twice as many or more that they turn down. Many MUCH BETTER athletes than any of you. But they don't meet the academic requirements or the coach doesn't believe the individual can make it through the academy and become a trained officer. Believe it or not, in the end, our coaches know that you are being trained to be a Military leader. An air force officer. I've seen a LOT of athletes applying to the academy get turned down. Even though they were some of the BEST athletes applying. So make sure when you speak of your athletic accomplishments and send in all those hot-links; try to include some that mention being on the honor roll, NHS, IB Program, or any other academic or community accomplishments you have.