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The way Brandon Sizemore figured it, his basketball career had come to a near-perfect, albeit unwanted, ending.

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.

But he was 5 feet 9 and the squad’s sixth-leading scorer. His name wasn’t on recruiting watch lists, and college coaches hadn’t come to see his games. “I thought that was it,” Sizemore said. “Then this kind of popped up.”

Sizemore will attend NAIA Georgetown College in the fall on a partial basketball scholarship. He’ll face an uphill climb for varsity playing time on a huge roster that features several former NCAA Division I players.

And he’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’s an option for many. But according to experts, students and their parents must enter the small-school recruiting process with open eyes.

According to a recent NCAA study, the association’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 – a growth rate of 85 percent.

Most of the increase has come at the smallest schools because they have little to lose and much to gain. Division III schools can’t offer athletic scholarships. They field a variety of teams while spending relatively little. Those teams bring exposure – as well as millions of dollars in tuition – to the schools’ typically small, private and expensive liberal arts campuses.

Similarly priced and sized NAIA colleges are in a comparable situation but do offer athletic scholarships.

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.

“The parents – even if they’re smart – they’re lambs to slaughter,” said Tom Elias of College Prospects of America. “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’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.”

Some coaches say that for some seniors, the allure of calling oneself a college athlete – along with the pomp and circumstance that surrounds their decision – directly affects their futures.

Conner athletic director Tom Stellman said as recently as 10 years ago his school would hold one or two “signing ceremonies” 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.

“Our policy is supposed to be one group (signing) in the winter and one in the spring,” Stellman said. “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. … It’s out of hand.”

How out of hand? Roster numbers tell the tale.

Lindsey Wilson, an NAIA program in Kentucky, had 33 players on its men’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.

Brescia, another NAIA school in Kentucky, had a 46-player baseball roster last year. That’s 13 players more than last year’s College World Series champion, LSU.

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.

Local Division III schools Thomas More and Mount St. Joseph started their football programs in 1990, partly to increase the schools’ enrollments. After struggling early, both programs have been nationally ranked in recent years and maintained rosters between 90 and 120 players..

Mount St. Joseph coach Rod Huber said building a program is a process – one that places a premium on numbers.

“When we were 0-10, we took anybody who would walk and chew gum,” he said. “… I tell kids all the time, if you really love this game, there’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 – anybody who wants to play.”

Even at elite small-college programs, the numbers game is evident.

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.

“When you’re a senior in high school and you’re being recruited, sometimes you can get a sense for how competitive it’s going to be,” he said. “You have schools come in and say, ‘We really want you, but we’d really like you to walk on and then earn a scholarship.’ You kind of get the feeling that they’re thinking, ‘Hey, worst-case scenario, we have one more body on campus paying tuition.’ ”

To that end, the athletic departments at many smaller schools assign each sport an enrollment goal – a number of roster spots each coach should fill to increase or maintain the size of the student body.

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’s athletes from 400 to 700 in the last seven years.

“One of the things that athletics bring to the table from an enrollment standpoint is you’re bringing in students who might not have otherwise looked at your school,” said Pooler. “That’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.”

Lindsey Wilson uses JV teams to develop varsity players and add enrollment.

“For some students, it’s just participatory,” said Pooler. “For others, it’s a way to get into the varsity lineup. … But we’re not taking people who have no business playing. They’re at least JV-level athletes coming in.”

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’t count against the program’s scholarship limits. So even JV recruits often receive thousands of dollars worth of incentives to continue their careers.

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’s annual tuition is $24,000. After grants and academic money and $11,000 in athletic money, she’ll pay about a quarter of regular tuition.

“I was stunned (by the scholarship offer),” said Overstreet’s mother Darla. “… When she first mentioned she wanted to play basketball in college, I said, ‘Ummm, Shumekia, I don’t know.

“But she loves the game. Even if she doesn’t get a lot of playing time, she has a core group of people that she can bond with and turn to. That’s important in college.”

Brandon Sizemore, the Newport grad, will have plenty of teammates to turn to. Georgetown had 33 players on last season’s varsity and JV teams. He said he knows he’s entering the program as a JV player – the JV and varsity practice separately and play different schedules – but he hopes to crack the starting lineup.

Georgetown coach Happy Osborne wouldn’t comment about Sizemore’s future or the inner workings of his program, but it’s obvious Georgetown isn’t the only side benefiting from the arrangement. Sizemore, who landed on Georgetown’s radar after Newport’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’ll pay only $2,000 of the school’s annual $35,000 tuition.

“Money would have been the only reason why I couldn’t have gone there,” he said. “I’m not the richest. Coach Osborne told me he’d see what he could do, and they came back with a great offer.”

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.

“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,” said Mount St. Joseph men’s basketball coach Larry Cox. “The creed I try to tell our coaches: Never recruit anybody who we don’t think can ever be anything more than a JV player after two years.”

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.

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’ 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.

Batavia graduate Justin Lowe said he wished he’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.

Lowe, now 28, still owes approximately $30,000 in student loans.

“I wanted to stay in school, but there was really nothing else I could do,” he said. “There’s school and there’s sports. But at the end of the day you have to pay your bills. I’m still happy I went there. I just wish I would have had my head on right.”

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 athletic scholarship that you deserve.

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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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Earning a golf scholarship at highly competitive college is very difficult. There are a few schools that dominate college golf each year and they recruit from the top 5% of players in the Country. Small to mid-size conferences in Division I and Division II schools hold the most promise for above average high school golfers wanting to get a college golf scholarship.

Between DI and DII colleges in the NCAA there are 489 schools that offer men’s golf scholarships and 337 that offer golf scholarships for women. Golf is classified as an “equivalency” sport in the NCAA which means scholarships can be divided up and distributed to multiple athletes. Golf scholarships are most always partial.

Division I men’s golf has 4.5 scholarships, while DII has 3.6. Women have 6 in DI and 5.4 in DII. If a coach offers you a .5 or 50% partial, then there are 4.0 scholarships remaining. Often in college golf, the amount of your scholarship increases each year as you become more valuable to the team.

Take maximum advantage of both your in-season play as well as competition on your own in the summer and off-season from high school. To get a college golf scholarship you must recruit yourself with the same level of focus and dedication you devote to your golf game.

Show coaches you are willing to constantly improve your game and that you will be an asset to both the golf team as athlete and the college as a student. Academics are important when trying to earn a scholarship. Having less than a B average in high school will eliminate you from half of DI colleges, because they can’t admit you. Makes your academics a focus now, even if you are a Senior.

If all things are equal on the golf course between potential recruits, the one who gets the golf scholarship is the athlete who works harder and is more prepared for their recruiting. Don’t wait to start. No matter if you are a sophomore or a senior in high school, you should have a solid recruiting plan in place for golf. With almost 2,000 scholarships available for men and over 1,800 for women, what are you waiting for? Get started today!

CLICK HERE if are ready to learn how to earn a golf scholarship.

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As an International student-athlete you should start your recruiting process early. Don’t wait until late into your Senior year. Getting recruited from overseas takes more time and to earn a scholarship you must still send recruiting tapes and other information coaches need. This will all take longer. Coaches in the US are accustomed to recruiting overseas now.

International student athletes make up a large percentage of rosters in such sports as Hockey, Soccer and increasingly Baseball as well. Students who attend high school outside the US and certain territories must also take either the SAT or ACT and submit grades and transcripts for review to the NCAA Clearinghouse just as any US student does. The main question asked is whether the TOEFL or TWSE tests are acceptable. They are not allowed for students who are pursuing an athletic scholarship or want to play in NCAA Division One or Two.

The positive and negative aspect of being a foreign student athlete is coaches don’t know who you are. Positive in that a coach can recruit you after you make initial contact without much fear of you being well-known in recruiting circles and having to compete with other colleges. When you contact a coach from another Country, believe me, they are going to want to find out who you are and hoping that you turn out to be a hidden athletic scholarship treasure for them. The negative is coaches have to evaluate the talent you play against and work out more logistics than recruiting a player in the US. This can be overcome by again, starting your recruiting early and being aggressive when contacting schools.

As the recruiting process is no different for a student in the US opposed to an athlete in a foreign country, our book, “Get Recruited To Play College Athletics,” is a great resource and step-by-step guide to help you earn the athletic scholarship in the US you deserve. CLICK HERE to review it and download.

The NCAA publishes a guide for International Student Athletes wishing to get a college athletic scholarship in the US. It can be found by CLICKING HERE.

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Here are 3 quick tips to show you how to be an asset during the athletic scholarship process instead of a liability.

1. Be active in their academics. 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’t admit a student with a GPA of under 3.0 anymore. If there grades are below this it won’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.
2. Take action. Don’t just be involved a little, take action and take the lead if needed when going through the athletic scholarship process. We don’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.
3. Help keep them focused. 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.

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’s perspective. CLICK HERE to view the “Get Recruited To Play College Athletics: Insider Strategy To Win At The Recruiting Game” and help your son or daughter get the athletic scholarship both of you have been dreaming about for a lifetime.

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Just because a school doesn’t offer you a scholarship, it does not mean you can’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.

We have seen too many athletes while we were coaches that were dead set, whether by their choice or their parent’s, that they were a major DI talent. This

athlete could have gotten a scholarship offer at a smaller DI school or DII in an instant, but that wasn’t part of their goals. Don’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.

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.

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?

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.

CLICK HERE to get the insider athletic recruiting system that will show you step by step how to beat out the competition and earn the athletic scholarship you deserve.

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Large high schools that consistently produce scholarship athletes, may get the attention from college coaches every year, but you still must take action. We see this way too much where a star athlete gets lots of visits and attention, but does not go far into the recruiting process. Initial buzz in the recruiting process can die down and be gone in an instant.  Even if you attend a magnet school for college coaches you still must follow a recruiting plan that guides you what to do after initial contact with a coach is made. The number one mistake is sitting by the phone, waiting for the coach to call you again and tell you what to do next. If buzz around your recruiting has disappeared, most likely other, more dedicated, hungry athletes have stepped in and have been recruiting the coach as we like to call it.

If you attend a small high school, maybe in a rural area, you may not get the visits.  Some will use this as an excuse as to why they can’t get a college athletic scholarship. We see this as an opportunity. You must work a little harder if you are in this position. It is critical that you put together a great recruiting packet and contact schools aggressively. Summer camps and combines are perfect for high school athletes from smaller schools because at these camps everyone is equal and it will give you a chance to impress and compete against athletes from large schools.

Whatever the size of your high school may be, the number one thing we can tell you to do is to TAKE ACTION!

Don’t sit by the phone and wait. Don’t complain that you have had no exposure. You can control the recruiting process with a proven system that gets your name, face and video in front of college coaches from across the country. If you deserve a college athletic scholarship, you can earn one if you want it enough.

Do you want to earn a college athletic scholarship? Let us show you the proven system that will get you recruited above your competition. CLICK HERE

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NCAA Basketball scholarships and recruiting get a lot of media attention. Players are sought after at and early age and it seems the competition gets stiffer each recruiting season. This attention is only focused on the top 1% of all high school basketball players. If you are not in this category, and believe us don’t worry if you are not, you can still get a NCAA basketball scholarship if you have some talent and ability and are willing to put in the time towards your athletic recruiting process.

Basketball is classed as a “head count” sport which means that the athletic scholarships that are offered are full-ride. There are 329 division 1 and 290 division 2 colleges that offer men’s basketball scholarships. There are also 328 division 1 colleges and 291 division 2 colleges that offer women’s scholarships. Don’t forget about NAIA and NJCAA colleges and universities that also offer full-ride basketball scholarships.

This means that there is a total of 7,177 men’s basketball scholarships available in the NCAA alone. NCAA basketball scholarships for women  a total of 9,285.

Most talented high school basketball players don’t get a scholarship offer because they did not correctly market themselves to college coaches. Coaches only here about a select few of true blue-chip players. Only these top 1% of all high school players will have their phone ringing off the hook. If you are not one of these, don’t worry, you can get a scholarship, if you are willing to work for it and take immediate action. The worse thing you can do is sit back and wait for coaches to find you!

The NCAA allows each Division 1 Men’s Basketball program 13 Scholarships and in Division 2, 10 are available. For Women’s basketball 15 Scholarships are offered in Division 1 and 10 in Division 2. NAIA colleges offer 11 full ride basketball scholaships for men and 6 basketball scholarships for women. Junior Colleges have 16 athletic scholarships for men and women at the NJCAA DI level.

There are plenty of NCAA basketball scholarships available if you know how to market yourself correctly to the coaches. You don’t need to waste thousands of dollars on a basketball recruiter when you can do it yourself with better results for free. Our advice is too start early, recruit yourself with unmatched determination, and believe that with a solid recruiting plan, that you can beat out the competition and earn a NCAA basketball scholarship.

The early bird gets the worm when it comes to NCAA basketball scholarships. If you have the ability and drive, CLICK HERE to get the recruiting systems that has helped hundreds of other basketball players like you.

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recruiting plan you can earn money to wrestle in college. College wrestling scholarships are available to those athletes who want them and are willing to work for them.

Wrestling is classified as an “equivalency” sport in the NCAA. In DI, the coach can divide, and usually does, his 9.9 scholarships between multiple wrestlers. If you are offered a 50% or .5 partial scholarship, then the coach has 9.4 more scholarships to award.  There are 85 division 1and 39 division 2 colleges that offer college athletic scholarships to wrestlers. That’s a total of 1,193.4 wrestling scholarships available in the NCAA. DI schools can offer 9.9 scholarships per team and DII can offer 9 scholarships.  The NAIA has 6 scholarships per team and JUCO schools, often overlooked, have the largest number with 16 scholarships available.

Competing in summer tournaments through USA wrestling is a necessary. You can compete against top level national competition and the exposure is great. Summer tournament also allow to improve for your regular season. It is not uncommon for wrestlers to have over 100 matches in a single summer season.

You do not have to be a State champion to get a wrestling scholarship. That is one of the most common errors we hear every year. Athletes doubt their abilities and measure the competition unfairly.  If you have some ability, one of the top 25 in your state in your weight class, you can get a wrestling scholarship. You have to use the same determination you do on the mat, towards your athletic scholarship search.

Develop a solid game plan now and start getting recruited today.  The number one tool you can have as a wrestling recruit is information. Get it now. There are over 250,000 high school wrestlers in the Country. What are you doing to beat out the competition in the athletic recruiting game?

CLICK HERE to arm yourself with the top wrestling scholarship recruiting guide. Let us show you how to go from high school athlete to top college recruit today.

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