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.

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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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Most colleges subscribe to the results of these combines and it is an easy way for college coaches to get a quick snap-shot of potential recruits. Coaches like them because the results are far more accurate and verified opposed to an athlete, saying how fast or how big they are.

Summer camps hosted by colleges are another option for high school athletes and athletes over 14 years old can attend most camps for the week. Theses are an amazing recruiting tool and puts you right in front of the coaching staff and can lead to a scholarship offer on the spot if the recruiting calendar allows.

From the view point of the high school athletes, summer camps are far better at producing valuable recruiting juice, than combines. If you use summer camps to your advantage, by choosing a camp that you have a realistic chance of being recruited too or has already actively been recruiting you, this will increase your chances, provided you perform well.

Combines on the other hand can lead to disastrous results. If you show up and produce badly, hundreds of coaches will know about it. Combines are often not attended by college coaches and are run by for-profit recruiting services that promise scholarship leads. This is an option if you cannot afford camps, but you should consider better focusing your recruiting efforts away from combines.

Athletic recruiting is getting very competitive and we believe that it is better to attend summer camps at colleges that have potential to offer you a scholarship, rather than risk one bad day ruining your athletic recruiting potential.

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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.

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