A few points in regards to some of the posts above:
1. From my experience, many and perhaps most of the D1 schools are looking for the best players they can find, period. If you have good grades, so much the better, but talent is by far the #1 criteria. And they judge the talent pretty much only on good travel ball competition. A bunch of 4.0 students who hit .200 will get a coach fired. The 2.8 students who hit .350 will keep the coach employed and earning coach of the year honors.
2. I have heard of D3 schools where the coaches are evaluated mainly on how many students they bring in. I can only relate my own experience, which seems to be that we want to try to build a winning program and to do it with well-rounded student-athletes. There hasn't been a single word about bringing in numbers for the sake of enrollment. In fact, our successful cross country/track coach has publicly stated he has moved away from bringing in large numbers and is focusing on smaller numbers and better quality. When our AD saw how hard I am working at recruiting, he did tell me he could probably arrange to have a JV team funded if I wanted, but that's not a direction I want to travel, and he didn't seem anxious to have me do it.
3. I think at D1 and maybe D2 h.s. stats and honors probably are totally irrelevant. But at D3, I think a 1st-team or 2nd-team all-state player in one of the bigger divisions or 1st-team all-league in a good league is pretty telling. So I do take a look at that type of thing. At a minimum with that type of honor, I know the girl will at least be a solid player who I need to make sure I see in the summer and who I will not have to cut if she comes here.
4. I likely won't see any high school games, as we are practicing and playing during those games. Nonetheless, I am making contacts with all of the local high school coaches.
5. With the one girl in ICarryTheBags post, a girl who is in band, has excellent grades, is involved in the school, etc., would not present any worries for me that she isn't playing h.s. softball. Normally the band kids are well-rounded students and are not attitude problems. The next time I have a band kid who is a bad student, lazy and has a poor attitude will be the first time.
6. I have no great revelations now as a college coach than I had as a high school/travel coach. If some big secret exists in judging players, no one has shared it with me.