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		<title>Division III, NAIA Programs Growing: More and more athletes flock to small colleges to compete</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Found this great article on Cincinnati.com. <a href="http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100607/SPT/6060385/1062/Division-III-NAIA-programs-growing">CLICK HERE</a> to read the original article. Small colleges are doing well recruiting athletes due more athletes looking at college as a way to help pay for school. It is important to remember that scholarships often do not cover anything close to full tuition and the same recruiting tactics and strategies for large schools apply to DIII and NAIA institutions.</p>
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<p>The way Brandon Sizemore figured it, his basketball career had come to a near-perfect, albeit unwanted, ending.</p>
<p>The recent Newport graduate, a scrappy sparkplug on an overachieving team, had helped the Wildcats to an improbable run to the state tournament at Rupp Arena.</p>
<p>But he was 5 feet 9 and the squad&#8217;s sixth-leading scorer. His name wasn&#8217;t on recruiting watch lists, and college coaches hadn&#8217;t come to see his games. &#8220;I thought that was it,&#8221; Sizemore said. &#8220;Then this kind of popped up.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sizemore will attend NAIA Georgetown College in the fall on a partial basketball scholarship. He&#8217;ll face an uphill climb for varsity playing time on a huge roster that features several former NCAA Division I players.</p>
<p>And he&#8217;s not alone. Every year, small colleges add more roster space on more athletic teams to attract more students and more tuition money to their campuses. As a result, high school students have more opportunities than ever to play college sports, sometimes regardless of their skill level. It&#8217;s an option for many. But according to experts, students and their parents must enter the small-school recruiting process with open eyes.</p>
<p>According to a recent NCAA study, the association&#8217;s member schools are adding nearly 8,000 athletes every year. According to another NCAA study, from 1982 to 2007 the number of Division III athletes increased from 85,521 to 158,621 &#8211; a growth rate of 85 percent.</p>
<p>Most of the increase has come at the smallest schools because they have little to lose and much to gain. Division III schools can&#8217;t offer athletic scholarships. They field a variety of teams while spending relatively little. Those teams bring exposure &#8211; as well as millions of dollars in tuition &#8211; to the schools&#8217; typically small, private and expensive liberal arts campuses.</p>
<p>Similarly priced and sized NAIA colleges are in a comparable situation but do offer athletic scholarships.</p>
<p>What small schools find in the recruiting process, according to experts, are students and parents who are willing to go to any lengths for a college athletics experience.</p>
<p>&#8220;The parents &#8211; even if they&#8217;re smart &#8211; they&#8217;re lambs to slaughter,&#8221; said Tom Elias of College Prospects of America. &#8220;Kids are emotional. They pick a school because of the color of the uniform or because the coach is nice or the other guys in the cafeteria say it&#8217;s a cool school. Meanwhile, the parents are looking at an expense of $20,000 to $40,000 per year for four years. Maybe that school gives your kid $1,000 and you can put in the newspaper that Johnny got a scholarship. But all of a sudden the parents are getting a loan for $19,000 a year.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some coaches say that for some seniors, the allure of calling oneself a college athlete &#8211; along with the pomp and circumstance that surrounds their decision &#8211; directly affects their futures.</p>
<p>Conner athletic director Tom Stellman said as recently as 10 years ago his school would hold one or two &#8220;signing ceremonies&#8221; a year. They usually were held when a highly recruited Division I athlete signed his or her national letter of intent. Now, he says, Conner averages 40 ceremonies a year. Sometimes the athletes are going to college on scholarship. This time of year, when Division III schools are landing commitments from students, many are not.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our policy is supposed to be one group (signing) in the winter and one in the spring,&#8221; Stellman said. &#8220;But everybody wants their own. We need to do them all at one time, as a team. It used to be more about team, not the individual. It just kind of evolved that way. &#8230; It&#8217;s out of hand.&#8221;</p>
<p>How out of hand? Roster numbers tell the tale.</p>
<p>Lindsey Wilson, an NAIA program in Kentucky, had 33 players on its men&#8217;s basketball roster last year. Rio Grande, an NAIA program in Ohio, had 30. By contrast, NCAA Division I schools such as UC, Xavier and Kentucky carry about half that many players.</p>
<p>Brescia, another NAIA school in Kentucky, had a 46-player baseball roster last year. That&#8217;s 13 players more than last year&#8217;s College World Series champion, LSU.</p>
<p>NCAA Division III football power Mount Union started the 2008 season with 215 players, including an 84-player freshman team. Meanwhile, Division I programs are allowed just 85 total scholarships.</p>
<p>Local Division III schools Thomas More and Mount St. Joseph started their football programs in 1990, partly to increase the schools&#8217; enrollments. After struggling early, both programs have been nationally ranked in recent years and maintained rosters between 90 and 120 players..</p>
<p>Mount St. Joseph coach Rod Huber said building a program is a process  &#8211; one that places a premium on numbers.</p>
<p>&#8220;When we were 0-10, we took anybody who would walk and chew gum,&#8221; he said. &#8220;&#8230; I tell kids all the time, if you really love this game, there&#8217;s a Division III program for you. It might not be Mount St. Joseph. But there are places out there, like we were 10 years ago, that are just looking for bodies &#8211; anybody who wants to play.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even at elite small-college programs, the numbers game is evident.</p>
<p>Harrison graduate Steve Strassell was a standout pitcher at Division II power Tusculum (Tenn.) College. He arrived on campus in 2004 to find a 51-player roster that included 27 pitchers.</p>
<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re a senior in high school and you&#8217;re being recruited, sometimes you can get a sense for how competitive it&#8217;s going to be,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You have schools come in and say, &#8216;We really want you, but we&#8217;d really like you to walk on and then earn a scholarship.&#8217; You kind of get the feeling that they&#8217;re thinking, &#8216;Hey, worst-case scenario, we have one more body on campus paying tuition.&#8217; &#8221;</p>
<p>To that end, the athletic departments at many smaller schools assign each sport an enrollment goal &#8211; a number of roster spots each coach should fill to increase or maintain the size of the student body.</p>
<p>The policy has worked at Lindsey Wilson, where athletic director Willis Pooler said enrollment goals and the addition of several sports have raised the number of the school&#8217;s athletes from 400 to 700 in the last seven years.</p>
<p>&#8220;One of the things that athletics bring to the table from an enrollment standpoint is you&#8217;re bringing in students who might not have otherwise looked at your school,&#8221; said Pooler. &#8220;That&#8217;s important. We look at that when we look at what programs we want to offer. We also just started a nursing program. We try to attract students in all kinds of ways.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lindsey Wilson uses JV teams to develop varsity players and add enrollment.</p>
<p>&#8220;For some students, it&#8217;s just participatory,&#8221; said Pooler. &#8220;For others, it&#8217;s a way to get into the varsity lineup. &#8230; But we&#8217;re not taking people who have no business playing. They&#8217;re at least JV-level athletes coming in.&#8221;</p>
<p>And when it comes to NAIA programs like Lindsey Wilson, many of the JV players receive athletic scholarships. According to NAIA rules, JV scholarships don&#8217;t count against the program&#8217;s scholarship limits. So even JV recruits often receive thousands of dollars worth of incentives to continue their careers.</p>
<p>Cooper High School senior Shumekia Overstreet is one of those players. The undersized center, who averaged 2.0 points and 2.9 rebounds for a fledgling program that went 11-16 this past season, recently signed with Midway College. The NAIA school&#8217;s annual tuition is $24,000. After grants and academic money and $11,000 in athletic money, she&#8217;ll pay about a quarter of regular tuition.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was stunned (by the scholarship offer),&#8221; said Overstreet&#8217;s mother Darla. &#8220;&#8230; When she first mentioned she wanted to play basketball in college, I said, &#8216;Ummm, Shumekia, I don&#8217;t know.</p>
<p>&#8220;But she loves the game. Even if she doesn&#8217;t get a lot of playing time, she has a core group of people that she can bond with and turn to. That&#8217;s important in college.&#8221;</p>
<p>Brandon Sizemore, the Newport grad, will have plenty of teammates to turn to. Georgetown had 33 players on last season&#8217;s varsity and JV teams. He said he knows he&#8217;s entering the program as a JV player &#8211; the JV and varsity practice separately and play different schedules &#8211; but he hopes to crack the starting lineup.</p>
<p>Georgetown coach Happy Osborne wouldn&#8217;t comment about Sizemore&#8217;s future or the inner workings of his program, but it&#8217;s obvious Georgetown isn&#8217;t the only side benefiting from the arrangement. Sizemore, who landed on Georgetown&#8217;s radar after Newport&#8217;s athletic director sent out a recruiting questionnaire on his behalf, wanted to go to Georgetown even before Osborne contacted him. He said if he keeps his grades up, after grants and scholarships, he&#8217;ll pay only $2,000 of the school&#8217;s annual $35,000 tuition.</p>
<p>&#8220;Money would have been the only reason why I couldn&#8217;t have gone there,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not the richest. Coach Osborne told me he&#8217;d see what he could do, and they came back with a great offer.&#8221;</p>
<p>The challenge facing small-college coaches is projecting how high school seniors will develop while giving them a fair assessment. The coaches then must decide how much scholarship money to give the player, or in the case of Division III coaches, whether or not to invite him or her to join the team. At times, it becomes an ethical dilemma.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are schools that bring 20 or 25 kids in as freshmen, and then the kids show up and all of a sudden they get cut,&#8221; said Mount St. Joseph men&#8217;s basketball coach Larry Cox. &#8220;The creed I try to tell our coaches: Never recruit anybody who we don&#8217;t think can ever be anything more than a JV player after two years.&#8221;</p>
<p>The onus, according to high school coaches, should be on the recruits. Many tell players and their parents to research the schools interested in them. Go to their games; ask to see their practices; talk to the players. Compare your skills to theirs.</p>
<p>Ryan Vogel is doing just that. The recent Silver Grove graduate plans on attending Thomas More in the fall. He also would like to play on the Saints&#8217; JV basketball team. So he spent the weeks after his senior season playing in open gyms with Thomas More players to find out if he could compete.</p>
<p>Batavia graduate Justin Lowe said he wished he&#8217;d had that same mentality when he enrolled at Thomas More in 2000. Lowe was part of a 15-player freshman class for the Saints basketball team. But he quickly learned why some small schools bring in so many players. He received enough money in grants and academic scholarships that during his freshman season he paid only room and board. By his sophomore year, he was on academic probation. Without the academic scholarships, he owed full tuition. On top of school and basketball, he took a job at CVS before leaving school.</p>
<p>Lowe, now 28, still owes approximately $30,000 in student loans.</p>
<p>&#8220;I wanted to stay in school, but there was really nothing else I could do,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s school and there&#8217;s sports. But at the end of the day you have to pay your bills. I&#8217;m still happy I went there. I just wish I would have had my head on right.&#8221;<!-- odiogo-notts-begin -->
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are a high school Senior who has not found a place to play for next year and still want an <strong>athletic scholarship</strong>, your time is running out. Most DI scholarships have already been awarded but that is not to say there are none available. If you still have aspirations of playing DI you need to get aggressive now in your recruiting.</p>
<p>Get on the phone and start calling colleges to find out if they are still recruiting. If you are not concerned about a scholarship, but just want to have a chance to play at a high level and earn a scholarship, then most coaches are open to examining the possibility of you becoming a preferred walk-on for the fall semester.</p>
<p>Many college applications are past the due date but athletic programs can still push through applicants in most cases. Make sure you have your tapes and athletic profile ready to go as we outline in our book. This is not the time to keep coaches waiting. Also have transcripts ready and make sure your test scores are in line.</p>
<p>You also need to be prepared to broaden your athletic recruiting goals and realize that this late, your chances of a DI scholarship may be minimal. Open up your recruiting goals to include lower, DI schools, IAA and DII schools. These levels of competition often recruit later than DI, trying to secure players who may have been on top IA recruiting maps early in the season, but after the signing date were left with no place to play.</p>
<p>Coaches are not going to find you this late in the season, you are going to have to find them. Be aggressive, if you find one door to be shut, ask that coach if he or she knows of any colleges that may have needs for your ability. Coaches network constantly and will have no problem referring you to a fellow coach as a favor.</p>
<p>Junior Colleges are also in full recruiting swing now. You can use these schools as a stepping stone to DI competition after two years. If you have the ability and in some cases, the resources, there are many prep schools and post grad schools that specialize in one or more sports that are recruiting hotbeds for DI colleges. You can attend these for 1 or 2 years, depending on a few factors and go through the recruiting process again at a school that will give you tons of tools to succeed in athletics, academics and recruiting.</p>
<p>Current Juniors and even Sophomores can use this time to examine the recruiting classes that colleges just signed to compare the resumes and athletic ability of signed recruits. Do the athletes that were signed have similar stats and accomplishments that you already have or expect to during your upcoming season? If so, make sure you take note and contact these schools with your desire to play there and get your name out there before your competition does and takes the <strong>athletic scholarship</strong> that you deserve.<!-- odiogo-notts-begin -->
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of bad information out there in regards to college athletic scholarship recruiting. It is hard to tell what advice will actually help you and which will hurt your athletic scholarship chances. Here are 5 common myths we here every year and what the truth is behind them.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a lot of bad information out there in regards to college athletic scholarship recruiting. It is hard to tell what advice will actually help you and which will hurt your athletic scholarship chances. Here are 5 common myths we here every year and what the truth is behind them.</p>
<p><strong>1. Can you play at the next level?</strong></p>
<p>Sounds easy to you, right? Well it can be and we show you how but surprisingly there are really talented high school athletes that don’t get the opportunity to play in college.</p>
<p>Making the step from high school to college requires more than talent. Talent can get you far in high school without a lot of dedication and determination. But in college, having talent is not enough.</p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> <strong>Pay to Play Recruiting Services will do it for me. </strong></p>
<p>This is a top misconception in college recruiting. These websites and services are everywhere. We know they sound great, just pay us every month, put up a profile and college coaches will be knocking down your door offering scholarships.  We wish it was that easy. Do you really think college coaches sit on the computer looking at profile after profile? Have you ever looked at those online profiles? Every athlete looks the same, you can’t tell the difference between one and the other. Recruiting is about separating yourself from the masses. Become and individual that colleges need to recruit!</p>
<p>Don’t waste your money on these services. They send colleges hundreds of faxes a day. A coach doesn’t have the time or the patience to call these players back and search for a needle in a haystack. These sites do look great, no doubt about that, but we show you how to recruit yourself better, certainly cheaper, and faster!</p>
<p>You can’t depend on anyone else to recruit you except yourself!</p>
<p><strong>3. You don&#8217;t have the grades.</strong></p>
<p>There are thousands of talented high school athletes every year whom would have been a scholarship athlete, but could not even pass the NCAA Clearinghouse.</p>
<p>The old days of getting into any college, regardless of grades, if you can play is over. The NCAA has tightened its restrictions and raised the minimum test scores and grades. Individual schools have also raised their minimums for athletes. While it is true if you play sports you can get in with lower G.P.A. and test scores than non-athletes, there are only a few “reserved” or “provisional” acceptance spots ear-marked for athletes. More and more schools are eliminating these every year as pressure builds from the non-athletic community. We take you through the critical steps on what to do year by year in your high school academic career to pass the Clearinghouse with ease.</p>
<p><strong>4. Student Athletes who only want to play at the Division I level.</strong></p>
<p>There is so much focus on DI colleges and universities. Many feel that it is a DI scholarship for them or nothing.</p>
<p>Limiting yourself to DI schools is a sure-fire way to not playing in college. You can walk on in some DI programs but expect to pay full price. Often if an athlete drops a level from what their ego tells them to play, it will open up scholarship money to pay for school. And would you rather be on the bench for 4 years or be a 3-4 year starter?</p>
<p><strong>5. You get a letter from a college coach- What does it really mean?</strong></p>
<p>Too many athletes think a letter is the true beginning of a scholarship offer. It is really up to you to get the scholarship you deserve! Colleges have amasses databases from many different sources, high schools often give this information to college admissions officers who then forward this info to the athletic departments. Most athletic offices have students working in work-study capacities whose job is to compile lists of thousands upon thousands of students.</p>
<p>While it can be a good sign to get a letter from a coach. It is really only the beginning of building a long recruiting relationship with this school. It is up to you what you do with this letter. Most athletes sit back and wait for the coach to start recruiting you from this point, and for 99% it never happens.</p>
<p>If you have found yourself asking these questions or wondering about the same things then you need a recruiting plan that will help you rise above your competition. If you truly want a <a href="http://www.collegeathleticscholarships.net" target="_self">college athletic scholarship</a> then <a href="http://www.collegeathleticscholarships.net" target="_self">CLICK HERE</a> to view the recruiting system that has helped thousands of high school athletes like yourself play college sports.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coach Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn what an athletic recruiting letter really means in terms of your athletic scholarship potential. What you can do to beat out your competition and earn a college athletic scholarship.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the fall <strong>athletic recruiting</strong> season underway and recruiting open for all sports, you have already or will shortly be getting recruiting letters in the mail. Sure, it is exciting to be getting these from colleges across the country but don&#8217;t let them interfere with your recruiting plan. We have heard of athletes getting hundreds of letters from nearly every DI program in the country, but never so much as a phone call from a college coach. How does this happen? Let&#8217;s look at what athletic recruiting letters really mean.</p>
<p>Colleges amass huge databases of high school athletes. Athletic departments buy lists from recruiting services, compile rosters and buy mailing lists from camps, and collect athletic questionnaires. When colleges start the recruiting process they will have in some cases 2,000 or more high school athletes on a list for 20 scholarship spots or less. There recruited list is not very targeted early in the recruiting season. Schools cast a wide net hoping not to miss anyone that could be a potential recruit.</p>
<p>If you got a letter early in September, chances are at least 1000 other high school players got that letter as well. Letters and forms of communication change as the recruiting process wears on. You can tell a schools level of interest in you for an athletic scholarship based on the materials and calls you receive from coaches.</p>
<p>An easy way to forget about all of this letter hype is to start contacting colleges now. Use the recruiting plan laid out by us in our book. Letters, phone calls, recruiting packets. Get them in now and make first contact before coaches are swamped and they won&#8217;t even be able to remember your name. Those athletes who have the most success at receiving an <strong>athletic scholarship</strong>, start early, make first contact, and persevere through the competition. Are you that athlete?</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coach Farrell</dc:creator>
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<p>Your high school coach can play an important role in the recruiting process but sometimes we see an over reliance and misunderstanding of how they can actually help you. It is common to believe that the high school coach will take care of the recruiting process for your son or daughter. After all, they have done everything to help their career up to this point, surely they will help your son/daughter get recruited as well.</p>
<p>Making this simple assumption can really hurt your scholarship chances.  The recruiting process is too important to leave in one person&#8217;s hands. The best approach is too work together with the high school coach. Communicate with them what you are doing and your goals.</p>
<p>It is now September, an important month in college recruiting. Your high school coach will be getting phone calls every night from college coaches to find out what athletes they have that can play or are potential scholarship candidates. Let your coach know that you want to play in college and to let coaches know if they receive recruiting calls.</p>
<p>Most athletes and parents also believe the high school coach has a Rolodex of college coaches they can call. This is just not true either in most cases. Research has shown the average high school coach only has regular contact with about 5 local colleges. This is just too small of a number to guarantee recruiting success.</p>
<p>You need to be active in your recruiting starting now. Work with your high school coach but do not rely on them as your main source of recruiting information or leads. Your coach can be an asset to your recruiting, but don&#8217;t let them become a liability by not being proactive and taking charge of the scholarship search yourself.</p>
<p>If you want to take charge of your athletic recruiting and get a <a href="http://www.collegeathleticscholarships.net" target="_self">college athletic scholarship</a>, the <a href="http://www.collegeathleticscholarships.net" target="_self">CLICK HERE</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coach Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For high school Seniors, time is critical now.  The fight for athlete recruiting really picks up once the first day of school starts. What have you done or what are you doing now to be ready?  Do not wait for the college coaches to start calling. You must beat the competition to the coaches and [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For high school Seniors, time is critical now.  The fight for athlete recruiting really picks up once the first day of school starts. What have you done or what are you doing now to be ready?  Do not wait for the college coaches to start calling. You must beat the competition to the coaches and show colleges you are the athlete they need to recruit.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Checklist for Seniors:</span></strong></p>
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<li>Register with the NCAA Clearinghouse if you have not done so already.</li>
<li>Finish your personal assessment and narrow school choices down.</li>
<li>Finish recruiting strategy plan.</li>
<li>Complete athletic resume and start making highlight tapes.</li>
<li>Communicate with high school coach.</li>
<li>Register to take SAT or ACT&#8217;s.</li>
<li>Have a great Senior athletic season.</li>
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<p>You only get one chance to go through your senior athletic recruiting. You should be doing everything possible to make sure it is a success. Remember it is often not the most talented athlete that gets the college athletic scholarship, but the athlete who prepares their self for college recruiting the most and follows a proven system.</p>
<p>Learn how to do <a href="http://www.collegeathleticscholarships.net" target="_self">athletic recruiting</a> the right way and beat out your competition. <a href="http://www.collegeathleticscholarships.net" target="_self">CLICK HERE</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coach Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The parents of a high school athlete should play a major role in their son or daughter getting a athletic scholarship. Here are 3 quick tips for parents to help their athlete earn a college athletic scholarship.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The parents of a high school athlete sometimes feel left out when seeing their son or daughter go through the <strong>athletic scholarship</strong> process. I have been witness too and heard of too many horror stories of over bearing parents who ultimately cost their son/daughter an athletic scholarship.</p>
<p>Here are 3 quick tips to show you how to be an asset during the athletic scholarship process instead of a liability.</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Be active in their academics.</strong> A recruit seems to lose focus of academics during the recruiting process and in high school it is sometimes hard to understand why grades are so important. Let the coaches do their work on the field with your student-athlete, but off the field you should help and stay on top of their grades. Over 50% of DI schools can&#8217;t admit a student with a GPA of under 3.0 anymore. If there grades are below this it won&#8217;t matter how great they are at their sport. Also an athlete who does well in the classroom is another bonus for the college coach. It shows they will be better prepared to handle the stresses athletics places on academics in college.</li>
<li><strong>Take action</strong>. Don&#8217;t just be involved a little, take action and take the lead if needed when going through the athletic scholarship process. We don&#8217;t mean call coaches for your athlete, but help them with school work if needed, be willing to visit schools, help make the personal recruiting packet and keep records and notes on the process.</li>
<li><strong>Help keep them focused</strong>. Getting an athletic scholarship is a lot of work. Something most students are unprepared for. It is also easy to quit after being rejected by a few schools. Keep them focused, remind them what is important, going to college, and make sure their reasons for playing in college are realistic.</li>
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<p>The athletic recruiting process is an exciting time for both parents and the student-athlete.  If you work together it will be a much more rewarding process. We discuss more in-depth strategy for parents in our eBook. We discuss critical mistakes parents make that cost scholarships, how parents should communicate with coaches, and the recruiting strategy from the parent&#8217;s perspective. <a href="http://www.collegeathleticsholarships.net">CLICK HERE</a> to view the <em><strong>&#8220;Get Recruited To Play College Athletics: Insider Strategy To Win At The Recruiting Game&#8221;</strong></em> and help your son or daughter get the <a href="http://www.collegeathleticscholarships.net" target="_self">athletic scholarship</a> both of you have been dreaming about for a lifetime.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coach Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knowing what athletic level you can earn a college athletic scholarship at is a major part of how successful your athletic recruiting will be. 


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A question that many high school athlete&#8217;s, parents and even coaches have a hard time answering during the athletic recruiting process is, &#8220;What level can I earn a scholarship at?&#8221;  There is a big difference between what level can I play at and what level will I be able to earn a scholarship.</p>
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<p>Just because a school doesn&#8217;t offer you a scholarship, it does not mean you can&#8217;t play at that level or within their conference. It is just not going to be at that school.  You also want to be able to realize when it is time to drop down a division or conference during the athletic recruiting process. We recommend an athletic recruiting approach that has you making contact across divisions and conferences to judge feedback and then constantly reworking your recruiting game plan until you find your fit.</p>
<p>We have seen too many athletes while we were coaches that were dead set, whether by their choice or their parent&#8217;s, that they were a major DI talent. This</p>
<p>athlete could have gotten a scholarship offer at a smaller DI school or DII in an instant, but that wasn&#8217;t part of their goals. Don&#8217;t be left without a team and decide early on whether your goal is a college athletic scholarship or reaching out of your skill level.</p>
<p>A good amount of time needs to be spent while doing your personal recruiting inventory examining your talent, desire, ability for growth and competition when searching for a college athletic scholarship.  You must not let your ego get in the way either. By knowing at what division and level you can earn an athletic scholarship at, makes your sports recruiting more targeted and successful.</p>
<p>In the beginning of the athletic recruiting process we tell athletes to start comparing themselves to the college athletes at schools they are considering. Go online to the athletic teams website. Compare height, weight, overall size. Do you feel that you will be that size in a year or two? Look at the press-release from the previous incoming scholarship freshman class. Do you have similar talent, stats, and ability?</p>
<p>Those are a couple of quick things you can do today to compare yourself and get an idea of where you fall into the athletic recruiting skill levels. It is a little more complex than that when you actually start contacting schools and developing a recruiting game plan with our guide, but that will help answer one of the most common questions we get.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I originally wrote this article just for football although the information in it pertains to all college sports. Whether you are searching for a soccer scholarship or lacrosse scholarship, the process one takes to earn a <strong>college athletic scholarship</strong> in each sport remains the same.</p>
<p>Football scholarships are the most abundant in the NCAA. There are 85 full-rides in Division 1A, 63 in Division IAA and 36 in DII. There are certain steps you must take in order to get a sports scholarship. In order for the recruiting system to work, you must have some talent and raw athletic ability. You don&#8217;t have to be the best in the country, state or even on your team, but you must have potential and some talent for college coaches to work with.</p>
<p>1.      <strong>Do a personal assessment.</strong> Evaluate your abilities, talents and reasons for wanting to play in college. Also what type of college are you searching for athletically and academically.</p>
<p>2.      <strong>What level can you play at?</strong> Put your ego aside and do a real evaluation of your talent and what you want out of a college athletic career. Do you want to play at the biggest college possible and risk sitting the bench? Or are you happy with a smaller school where you can play all four years?</p>
<p>3.      <strong>Develop a personal recruiting packet.</strong> This should contain a athletic cover letter, athletic resume and video highlight and game films. You can do this better and cheaper than any company or service that charges you money to post an online profile or make a highlight tape for you.</p>
<p>4<strong>.      Initiate contact with colleges.</strong> Follow a system that will maximize your exposure to colleges and play the recruiting game on the college coach&#8217;s level. This will put you above the thousands of other recruits fighting for the same spots.</p>
<p>5.      <strong>Communicate and follow through.</strong> It is often difficult for high school students to communicate with college coaches. You must mature quickly during this process and ask the right questions and have the correct answers to show the coaches you are the player for them. It is also difficult to keep the drive and determination to get an offer late into the recruiting season if you have already been turned down multiple times.</p>
<p>High school athletes who are able to follow a game plan throughout the entire recruiting season are the ones who ultimately end up with a <strong>sports scholarship</strong>. It takes a lot of work but if you are willing to be mature and keep your dream alive, you will be able to earn a football scholarship and play in college.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coach Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do college athletic scholarship recruiting services really do what they promise their athletes? Find out now and the answer may surprise you.


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<p>You are a high school athlete who wants to play in college and earn a scholarship. Should you pay for or hire a recruiting service to help you? If you have done any research into getting a <strong>college athletic scholarship</strong> you have seen these websites that promise big things and in most cases cost big money. Do they deliver on their promise and can they really help you get money for playing?</p>
<p>The most popular are the athletic profile based websites. For a fee, money, you can post an athletic profile that is promised to be seen by hundreds of coaches. They say they will blast your profile to schools across the country and scholarship offers will come rolling in. Is this the truth?</p>
<p>Well, they will take your money and they will blast your profile to schools across the country. As for coaches viewing your profile online, yes and no. These services will fax your profile to hundreds of colleges, but along with the profile of the other hundreds of registered athletes. It is not possible for a coach to take a stack of profiles and sort through these to figure out who to call. Take a look at the profiles, every athlete looks the same. There is not much of a call to action for the college coach. Also in DI and DII, coaches do not have the time or the patience to sort through online websites. Most of the views you will be getting are from other users, high school athletes online.</p>
<p>The other type are companies that for hundreds of dollars will make a highlight tape for you. They promise a professional highlight tape that will stand out above the competition. This is true, the tape will cost you hundreds of dollars, but what matters in the tape is your talent, not how well the tape is cut together.</p>
<p>Bottom line, save your money. Getting a college athletic scholarship is incredibly competitive. If you want it done right and with success you need to do it yourself. By doing it yourself it shows the college coach that you have ambition and determination. A fax from a website says nothing about you. The more you spend making a highlight tape, does not improve your performance on that tape.</p></div>
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