We run into families and athletes everyday who have the wrong information about college athletic recruiting, at it can hurt them. The most common mistake is not being aggressive in their efforts. Don’t assume coaches are going to call. You have to make it happen. That is one of the main themes in our book. We show you how to grab the power and go after colleges you want to attend and coaches you want to play for. Use our knowledge to your advantage and play at the school you deserve too.

Things have settled down now after the last NLI signing date and we will be back to blogging new articles, tips and advice starting this week. Best of luck to everyone and if you are wanting to play college athletics, check out our recruiting guide that has helped hundreds of student athletes and their families.

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Blame it on the economy, higher demand for college aid, limited sources for free money, increased competition among coaches and colleges or a host of other reasons,  but competition for college athletic scholarships has never been higher. Coaches also have more information about recruits at their disposable with the rise of the internet.  It is never too early to start the process if you have the desire to play college sports.

High school freshmen should contact their high school guidance counselors to make sure they are in the right course track to graduate with all NCAA academic qualifying courses. Summer camps and travel teams allow you to be seen and identified by college coaches as early as 7th or 8th grade.

We have never heard from any recruit that they started too early in their high school career to be prepared. The opposite is of course true. Wait too long to take action and that phone call offering a scholarship is unlikely to happen.  Get a solid plan in place now so you are ahead of the competition throughout the athletic recruiting process and get the college athletic scholarship you deserve.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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If you want a college athletic scholarship then don’t wait any longer. You must start today. Learn how to choose the right athletic conference for your talents and have a successful recruiting season ending with a scholarship offer.

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The competition for earning and being awarded a college athletic scholarship is getting harder every year. There is a correct path to take to get one no matter the sport you play. These 5 mistakes are the biggest that I have seen every season.

1. You don’t have the grades.

I’m sure we have all heard of the talented athlete who should have gotten a scholarship, but was left sitting home in the fall because they could not get into school. In addition to having to pass the NCAA Clearinghouse, athletes must also meet the minimum requirements to get into the college where they are being recruited.

2. High School athletes who only want to play NCAA Division I.

Part of being awarded with a roster spot in college is being able to take a true measure of your talent and put your ego aside. If you are good enough to play DI, then by all means, go for it. But if you are not, you may have a hard time getting an offer and should look at DII schools or smaller conference DI.

3. Starting the recruiting process too late.

As the scene becomes more competitive each year, parents and students are starting earlier in their high school athletic career to get a jump on the other students. Do not wait until your high school career is over to think about playing in college. If you are a sophomore or junior, the time to start is now.

4. Getting hurt during the season.

I realize that if you get hurt it is not your fault. But you can’t use the injury as an excuse not to get an offer. There is a right and wrong way to treat injuries that occur during your career.

5. Not knowing what coaches are looking for.

You have been working most of your life at your sport. Don’t waste years of training by not knowing what coaches want in a recruit. If you want a college athletic scholarship then don’t wait any longer. You must start today. Learn more about how to avoid costly mistakes that will ruin your college athletic scholarship chances.

CLICK HERE if you want to avoid these mistakes. Get a college athletic scholarship recruiting plan that shows you the proven way to earn the athletic scholarship you deserve.

As a parent of a son or daughter that wants to earn a college athletic scholarship, it can be both an exciting and stressful time. A parent can be a great resource to their child and can be the deciding factor that helped get them into school.

Or they can be a nightmare to the coach recruiting their child and actually hinder the process doing more harm than good. It is a difficult time for you going through this process because it is so important to both your child and you. A full-ride could pay for all of their schooling, which would be quite the relief.

The 3 main mistakes we see are:

1. Parent’s who wait too long because they just have no idea what to do.

2. Parent’s who assume the high school coach will do everything, because up until this point, the coach has advised and coached your son or daughter’s entire athletic career.

3. Too many parents wait for the college coach to find their kid.

As a parent, you can’t sit back and wait for anyone else to help get your kid recruited. Not your kid, not their current coach, not the college coach that promised to call back. You need to take a pro-active approach and get your kid recruited to play college athletics.

Throughout their high school career there are steps you should take aside from what the current coach is doing. By laying groundwork early you can achieve a greater success rate later on in the recruiting process.

If you are going through the process now there are several steps you should be taking to help get your daughter or son a college athletic scholarship. The main point we stress is too communicate with your child. Their head will be filled with the excitement of talking to coaches and your main job should be to help them stay grounded in reality, navigate the recruiting process, help communicate with coaches and make sure you and your child make a decision that is best for them and your family.

CLICK HERE to view the college athletic scholarship recruiting system that has helped so many families like yours, clear the fog and navigate the recruiting process.

On the other side is the coach who just doesn’t have the time, the resources or know-how to help their athletes with their athletic recruiting. Your high school or club/summer coach is an important factor in your recruiting process. It is important to let them know early on that you want to play college sports and get a college athletic scholarship. College coaches call hundreds of high school coaches early in the recruiting process because with one phone call, coaches can learn about 20+ players. If your high school coach doesn’t know that you want to play in college, they can’t help you.

If you have a coach that is willing to do everything for your recruiting, consider yourself lucky. A big mistake we see every year is assuming your coach will do it for you because it’s their job. Well, not the case. The only one who can absolutely guarantee your recruiting success is you. You must communicate with your high school coach through out the process. Find out how they can help you and what they can do for you.

Remember, you alone determine whether or not you get an athletic scholarship. Your coach can be a great asset if he/she is willing to help you but you also must combine this help with your own athletic recruiting plan to really set yourself apart from the competition.

CLICK HERE to see the athletic recruiting plan that shows you step-by-step how to attack every aspect of your college athletic scholarship search.