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 college athletic scholarship 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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

Don’t waste money towards empty promises. If you want a college athletic scholarship then don’t wait any longer. You must start today. CLICK HERE to learn more about how to avoid costly mistakes that will ruin your scholarship chances.

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Track and field/cross country schools in NCAA DI have 12.6 scholarships for men and 18 for women. NCAA DII has 12.6 for both men and women. NAIA schools have 12.6 for both men and women and the largest allotment is in the NJCAA which has 30 scholarships for men and women each. It is also classified as an equivalency sport which means the scholarships can be divided into partial amounts and usually are. Meaning if you are awarded a .4 or 40% partial scholarship, then the coach in NCAA DI Men’s would have 12.6 scholarships to divide among as many athletes as they wish.

In order to earn a track and field scholarship you must at the minimum qualify for State’s as a high school athlete. Each state is slightly different and at the state meet you want to place in the top-8 in your even or multiple events to qualify for All-State status.  This will place you in the top 400 in the country essentially for that event.

Here are 5 tips for success in earning a track and field scholarship:

1. Be able to perform well at two or more events. Specialization is rare at the collegiate level and it is easier for a coach to award a scholarship if you can be a points earner in multiple events. If you throw the shot put well, make sure you work as hard at the discuss also. Distance runners should be able and have show success in cross country and distance track events.
2. Be able to contribute immediately. With scholarships scarce in collegiate track and field, it is hard to award scholarships on athletes that show potential but may never meet collegiate standards. Work hard in the off-season and do extra in-season to continually improve your strength and conditioning.
3. Begin recruiting early. You need to start your recruiting game plan in your junior year for track and field scholarships. Waiting until your senior track season has started is too late.
4. Cast a wide net. Search and contact at least 50 colleges. Track and field scholarships fill up fast and coaches can’t recruit you if they don’t know about you.
5. Get good grades. We have said this many times in other articles but we feel it can’t be said enough. Having less than a 3.0 makes it impossible for 50% of NCAA DI schools to recruit you because they can not get you past the admissions office.

Use those 5 tips for success as a starting point for getting a track and field scholarship along with a solid recruiting game plan. With some hard work you can earn a college athletic scholarship in this sport if you start early, take the right steps, communicate with coaches correctly and beat out the competition.

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