Understanding Athletic Recruiting for College

In today's episode, I sit down with Chris LaTempa, a seasoned college counseling expert with a wealth of knowledge in the intricate world of college athletic recruiting. If you have a child considering college athletics, this episode is a MUST LISTEN!

Bio

Chris began his current role as Director of College Counseling at Moorestown Friends School this past summer after 8 years as the Associate Director of College Counseling at Malvern Preparatory School. Prior to Malvern, he served as a college counselor at Salesianum School in Wilmington, DE and as a Senior Assistant Director of Admission at Lafayette College, where he managed the territories of Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, and Long Island. In addition to his counseling roles, Chris has designed and taught courses on public speaking and social entrepreneurship and coached the freshman baseball teams at Malvern and Salesianum as well as Lafayette’s NCAA softball team. He is an adjunct faculty member of Villanova University’s College Counseling Certificate Program, through which he teaches the Counseling College-Bound Athletes course. Chris is a member of both NACAC and PACAC, through which he has served on several Conference Planning Committees, the Government Relations Committee, Admission Practices Committee, and the Secondary School Counselors Committee, which he chaired from 2015-2019. Chris holds a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from Lafayette College and a Masters of Science in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Follow Chris on Linkedin.