Full athletic scholarships are possible for NCAA Women’s Golf. If your scores are within acceptable levels you will be able to find a Women’s Golf Scholarship. If you are willing to work as hard at recruiting as you do on the golf course, you will be able to find a college with scholarship money for you.

College coaches look  at summer tournaments, ranked ones, and state tournament high school golf. They want to see how well you perform under pressure which is more prevalent at larger ranked summer tournaments.

For recruiting purposes:

0-1  handicap = Top Division I ability

2-5 handicap = Middle to Lower DIV I ability

6-8 handicap = Lower Div I, D2

If your scoring average is in the  85-90 range, you will draw interest from many Division I programs. The important part of the process is not to sit back and wait for coaches to contact you. You must contact them with an athletic profile, resume and film of your swing.

Your athletic resume and profile should include the following information:

Name
Address
Telephone
Birth date
Height
Weight

Name of High School
Month and Year of Graduation
Grade Point Average/Class Rank
SAT or ACT Scores
USGA or State Handicap Index
High School Stroke Average
List Other Sports and Extracurricular activities

Next is the most important part. You need to list your tournament results and highlights. These scores are much more important than a handicap from your home club. Remember to list in chronological order.

• Event name and location
• Number of players in the field
• Her finish
• Course rating and distance
• Unusual weather for the event
• Yardage for the course

USGA / AJGA

State / Regional / Local

High School

FCWGT / Other Junior Tour-

1. What is your match individual record and top finish?
2. Best score(s) for 18, 36, 54, 72 holes in qualifying/team competition and par for the round you are competing?
3. How have you finished in tournaments/competitions? Place/out of how many in listing best finish and the year?
4. How far do you hit:
   • Driver
   • Fairway wood
   • 5 iron
   • 7 iron
5. Do you play on any Junior Golf Association circuit? If so, best placing in an event.
6. For high school competition, where did you place in League, District, and State/Province?

Levels 1, 2 & 3 are all ranked by the junior rankings systems: Golfweek, NJGS and the AJGA.   Also playing High School Golf is important to show a college coach that you can function as part of a team however it is not the typical source for college coaches to find competitive junior golfers.  The best competition is in a Level 1, 2 or 3 ranked events.

Include a short VHS video along with your profile and resume:

Tape your full swing, a three-quarters swing, a couple of pitch shots and her putting stroke. Get a shot from behind and a swing facing the camera.

Make an introduction in the beginning of the tape, “Hi my name is…” Just 30 seconds will show coaches your confidence and maturity.

Send the resume/profile to as many colleges that fit your selection criteria. After sending the information be sure to follow up with phone calls to the coaches expressing your interest in playing college golf for their school.  Do not be discouraged if your calls go unreturned or coaches are not interested in your playing ability. The players that earn Women’s golf scholarships are the ones who contact the most schools and work hard at their recruiting.

CLICK HERE if you want a Women’s Golf Scholarship. Get the full recruiting system that has helped thousands of high school athletes reach their dream of playing college athletics.

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1. Can you play at the next level?

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.

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.

2. Pay to Play Recruiting Services will do it for me.

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!

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!

You can’t depend on anyone else to recruit you except yourself!

3. You don’t have the grades.

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.

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.

4. Student Athletes who only want to play at the Division I level.

There is so much focus on DI colleges and universities. Many feel that it is a DI scholarship for them or nothing.

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?

5. You get a letter from a college coach- What does it really mean?

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.

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.

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 college athletic scholarship then CLICK HERE to view the recruiting system that has helped thousands of high school athletes like yourself play college sports.

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as a high school player. Most of this media attention and hype is centered around blue chip athletes which are less than 1% of all high school players. If you do not fit into this category, which is most, you can still earn a college basketball scholarship.

Here are 3 steps to a college basketball scholarship:

1. Create a personal recruiting packet. This will include your athletic and personal resume along with 2 of your best games and a short 5 minute highlight tape.  Ideally you need to send this recruiting packets to at least 50 colleges that meet your personal assessment of schools that your academic and athletic skills are a good fit.
2. Involve your parents and coach. Players often get side tracked during recruiting. It takes many people close to you like your parents and coach to help in this process. Let them know your goals and work together with a recruiting plan that will help you succeed.
3. Be aggressive. You can not wait by the phone for coaches to call or except scholarship offers to follow the letter in the mail you received. Call coaches daily, follow up, continue to send recruiting packets, visit college coaches on your own if you have the means. Often less skilled high school basketball players can earn scholarships over more talented players simply because they followed a plan to get recruited.
4. Be Persistent. Don’t get discouraged or quit all together if the first few coaches don’t call you back or show much interest in what you have to offer. It may take 10 colleges to take a look at you or 50. The point is you must keep moving forward and stay on track during recruiting. Athletes who can do this will earn the scholarship spot.
5. Don’t Let You Academics Slip. Don’t let your grades fall your Senior year and let this be the reasons you can not earn a scholarship. While the NCAA academic requirements are low, colleges and universities have been steadily increasing their minimum requirements for athletes.

Your basketball future is in your hands now. Not the college coaches or recruiters. You can earn a college basketball scholarship if you are aggressive in your recruiting, enlist the help of those close to you and get your name and game tapes in front of college coaches.

There are no secrets on how to earn a scholarship in any sport. There are proven recruiting steps that successful high school athletes follow every year that help them earn the spot to play in college.  The recruiting season goes by fast but too many times we see athletes who give up after getting rejected by the first few schools. Follow these steps but be persistent throughout and you will have success.

CLICK HERE if you have the desire and motivation to earn a college basketball scholarship.

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While there are many intangible factors that go into earning a college athletic scholarship, the whole process can be broken down into 3 easy steps. If you can take charge and master these steps, you will be way ahead of your competition.

1. Game and Highlight Tape

As soon as you have great game film, two to three games, make a tape and send these out to colleges. Once your son or daughter has played a few games in their Senior year, (or Junior year for Spring sports) it is time to package these along with the next two items and get them into the hands of schools that match your recruiting profile.  It is not too early to start in your Junior or Sophomore years if these are varsity games, just be aware of NCAA recruiting rules that may prevent the coach from contacting you to discuss these films.

2. Athletic Recruiting Resume

Make an athletic recruiting resume that highlights your accomplishments, includes your stats and interests. You should approach recruiting the same way you would a job. Also include other sports you play and your stats if you excel in those also. Make sure your contact information along with your coaches and high schools is predominate so they can enter you into their recruiting database and have a resume to look at while they are viewing your game/ highlight film.

3. Official Transcripts

Grades and your academics are more important than ever. We have spoken so much about this in the past but it is something you can control and we hate to see talented athletes who are turned down for college athletic scholarships because they did not take care of business in the classroom. Before a coach can truly recruit you, they will need to see an academic transcript. Get copies from your guidance office to send with your athletic resume and film.

These three steps will put your name and face in front of coaches. Now you must be as aggressive as you are on the field, towards your recruiting. The athlete who works hard during recruiting, calling coaches, promoting themselves, sending out the most athletic recruiting packets, often wins.  Every year less talented athletes beat out those with better stats because they had a plan for their recruiting, followed through and earned the college athletic scholarship. Do you have the drive it takes to take charge of your recruiting process?

CLICK HERE to get the college athletic scholarship recruiting guide that will show you step-by-step how to get recruited and help you beat out the competition.

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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.

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.

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’t even be able to remember your name. Those athletes who have the most success at receiving an athletic scholarship, start early, make first contact, and persevere through the competition. Are you that athlete?

CLICK HERE if you are that athlete who has the drive to take charge of their atheltic recruiting, we will show you how to get it done.

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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.

Making this simple assumption can really hurt your scholarship chances.  The recruiting process is too important to leave in one person’s hands. The best approach is too work together with the high school coach. Communicate with them what you are doing and your goals.

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.

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.

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’t let them become a liability by not being proactive and taking charge of the scholarship search yourself.

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The high school soccer season has started and that also means the beginning of the college soccer scholarship recruiting season. If you are a Senior high school student-athlete you should be working on your soccer scholarship recruiting plan now and should be ready to put the plan into action.

1. Complete your athletic and personal profile.
2. Make  sure you have someone you trust or your soccer team is going to be filming your soccer matches and you will have immediate access to a copy.
3. Start contacting college soccer coaches.
4. Make plans to visit schools and meet with coaches.
5. Register with the NCAA Clearinghouse if you haven’t already. Review your grades and classes with your guidance counselor to make sure you are taking all required courses this fall.

The path to a college soccer scholarship can be long and hard. But trust us, it will go by fast. The soccer players that end up with the scholarship are the one’s who took time during the recruiting process to plan out a solid course of action. They have done their research, know what schools match their abilities, set realistic expectations and goals and communicate with college coaches the right way.

If you have already started, great! Keep the momentum going all fall and don’t quit until you get the soccer scholarship you deserve. If you haven’t taken any action yet, start today, don’t wait because your competition already started. You are competing against thousands of other high school seniors for the same scholarship spot. Don’t be left home next fall.

CLICK HERE to view the recruiting system that has helped out hundreds of other soccer players like yourself who want a college soccer scholarship.

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If you want to play college football, you need to start taking action now. We are not talking about waiting for college coaches to start calling you. Gone  are the days when you can have a great game and expect phone calls on Monday. You need to get your athletic profile and game film in front of coaches.

Everyone has started their pre-season practices and the first games are weeks away.  Get your athletic profile done now and complete your personal assessment to narrow down at least 50 colleges that you feel are a good fit to earn a football scholarship from.

Make sure you have someone, a family member, friend, your coaches, etc…filming the games and you can get your own copy the day after the game. This is a crucial step that many players neglect to take care of. Coaches are going to be flooded with game tapes in October. Why wait? Beat out the competition and get film into college football coaches hands in September.

While the college season is also in full swing, football coaches devote as much or more time to recruiting than their actual season. Recruiting is the lifeblood of a college team and a coaches career. Make it easy on coaches. Use the steps we outline to make their job easy and show them you are the football player that deserves the college football scholarship.

CLICK HERE to view the step-by-step recruiting guide that shows you how to play college football. Don’t wait any longer, your competition has already started…have you?

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Checklist for Seniors:

1. Register with the NCAA Clearinghouse if you have not done so already.
2. Finish your personal assessment and narrow school choices down.
3. Finish recruiting strategy plan.
4. Complete athletic resume and start making highlight tapes.
5. Communicate with high school coach.
6. Register to take SAT or ACT’s.
7. Have a great Senior athletic season.

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.

Learn how to do athletic recruiting the right way and beat out your competition. CLICK HERE

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Basketball scholarships get a lot of press. Players are begin discovered earlier and earlier into their high school and some in junior high. It may seem that if you are not discovered then, you can’t get a basketball scholarship. The media really skews the perception of what it takes to get recruited for basketball.

There are over 7,100 scholarships available for men in the NCAA and 9,200 for women. There are also NAIA and NJCAA scholarships. The media attention is only focused on the top 5% of high school basketball players which are considered “Blue Chip.”

If you are not in the top 5% of the country in basketball, don’t worry, you can earn a scholarship to play college basketball if you have some talent, room for improvement, and the drive to commit yourself to a long recruiting process.

Coaches look for 5 main traits in basketball recruits:

1. Maturity- How do you carry yourself on and off the court? Do you complain to coaches and refs at every bad play? Or do you keep your head high, show composure and act like an adult on and off the court?
2. Team Player- College basketball is very different than high school. You may not be the star anymore when you get to college. Are you willing to do what it takes to help the team more than yourself?
3. “Coachability”- Do you show room for improvement and are you willing to do what the coach says to improve your game?
4. Willingness- Are you willing to put the team above your personal goals? College coaches want to to win and will ask you to do whatever it takes to help the team. Are you willing to play multiple positions? Be a practice player? Sacrifice your stats for team wins?
5. Academics- Players who do better in the classroom as easier to coach, cause less problems off the court and are better able to handle the pressures of the college game.

Basketball is a headcount sport in the NCAA. Scholarships are awarded on a full ride basis. For men in NCAA DI there are 13 scholarships per team. DII has 10. For women in DI there are 15 and 10 scholarship in DII. This may not sound like a lot but considering there are hundreds of teams in both DI and DII, you can find a college that will award you a basketball scholarship.

Follow a recruiting system that shows coaches you are the recruit for them. Be willing and able to commit months to the recruiting process and show coaches who you are as a person and player and you will earn a basketball scholarship to play in college.

CLICK HERE if you have the ability and mental drive to get a college basketball scholarship.

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