Here are some dates

A player can contact a coach at ANY TIME, regardless of age or grade. They can do so by phone, email or in person, during visits to the school. Contact between player and coach outside the school is not allowed (i.e. in tournaments) beyond simple hellos.

Basically, a player can initiate school-based contact (phone, email or person) with a coach at any time, and if that contact results in getting to the coach, the coach can talk for hours with that player. A coach can not initiate or reply to student messages on his/her own until certain dates. BTW, these rules go for the parents of a student as well.

- A coach can reply to or initiate e-mails starting in July of that player's junior year.
- A coach can reply to or initiate phone calls, starting in July of that player's senior year.
- A coach can offer and pay for "official visits" starting in that player's senior year. Any visit prior to the senior year, is an "unofficial visit" and the student has to pay for it on their own.

Finally, one way to solve the frustrating leaving of phone messages that are never returned, is for your club coach can contact the college coach and arrange for a time that the college coach will be available to receive your call. Another alternative, is to contact the coach's secretary and ask her when the coach has some time available and tell her that you intend to call at that time. You can then call the coach at a prearranged time and you should have a better chance of making contact.

Hope this helps.