College Sports Recruiting Services – Should You Use Them?
Posted on March 7, 2011 by MoThere are thousands of high school student-athletes looking to make it to the college level. Some of them will turn to college sports recruiting services to help them reach their goal. The question is, is this a wise choice?
First of all, what exactly what are these recruiting services? These services promise to help young athletes make it to the college level. There are plenty of these services all across the country, and the Internet.
The average college sports recruiting service will charge you in the thousands of dollars to help you get your name out to college coaches. Their services are certainly not cheap.
In return for the thousands of dollars you pay them, they will do the following:
1- Help You To Develop An Athletic Resume
2- Help You Develop An Athletic Profile
3- Help You Determine What Level Of College Sports Is Right For You
4- Work With You To Develop A List Of Schools To Contact
5- Make Contact With College Coaches To Market And Promote You
As you look at this list, you can see that college sports recruiting services provide a valuable service. After all, receiving an athletic scholarship not only allow student-athletes to play their sport in college, it can save them thousands of dollars in tuition.
The key question is this: Should You Pay Thousands Of Dollars To These Services?
If you look at the list of five things I listed these services can do for you, you will notice this very important fact: You Can Do All Of This Yourself! Yes, it will take time, research, and effort by you and your family, but you can do all of this yourself. There is nothing magical about what these recruiting services do. It’s all about marketing and promoting.
I leave you with this important question:
Who cares more about your chance to play at the college level…you or college sports recruiting services that are dealing with hundreds or even thousands of other athletes. The answer is clearly you! Take control of your recruitment and market and promote yourself to college coaches!
Gary Hawkins is a well known recruiting and athletic scholarship expert and the author of a popular 17-page free report titled:
“Five Secrets You Must Know To Get Recruited For Athletic Scholarships”
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College Sports Recruiting – A Brief Overview
Posted on March 6, 2011 by MoBy John Newcomb
Basics:
One may be a good sportsperson with great potential or one may just be happy to play for the love of it. Colleges offer great opportunities to continue and hone one’s sporting abilities. However while choosing a college one should bear in mind that college is more important than the sport.
Choosing the College:
While choosing college athletic options it is better to make a critical assessment of your athletic abilities.
How this should be done?
Discuss with your coach what NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) division may be best suited to your abilities and interest. You may also participate in college showcase which rates student abilities according to the requirements of different divisions. NCAA has three divisions.
Division 1: It is the most competitive with highest profile offering athletic scholarships;
Division 2: It is the next level with an above average competition with lower profile and scholarship opportunities;
Division 3: Consists of smaller colleges where athletes are students first and athletes second and has no athletic scholarships but does have financial aid academic scholarships.
If you are Division 1 material you will, in all probability, know it. Sports in Division 1 are serious business with extensive and nation-wide recruitment effort.If you are not Division 1 material it is better to consider Division 2 or 3 scholarships. To assess your strength at Division 2 you should to their coaches your information, statistics and videotapes of your games/playing indicating clearly which player in the videotape you are.If the coaches there are enthusiastic about your skills and willing to offer scholarship it is better to send your information and videotapes to a few Division 1 colleges as well to explore all options.
At Division 3 schools although no athletic scholarships are available they still have financial aid and other scholarships available to students including athletes.
It is important to bear in mind whether you have the necessary commitment for Division 1 even if you have the sporting ability since sports there are serious business.There are advantages and disadvantages at each level. While Division 1 offers best chance to make it to pro ranks you should make a careful assessment whether you want it before deciding.
Rules:
If you want to make it to Division 1 or 2 you should know all the requirements of NCAA and fulfill them as you complete high school. NCAA requires the athletes to complete a core curriculum with a minimum grade point average and a minimum SAT or ACT score. Student athletes who want to join Division 1 or 2 college programs should send their High school transcripts to NCAA Initial Eligibility Clearinghouse as early as possible preferably in junior year so that you have the time to schedule any course you may need to fulfill eligibility requirements
You can learn a lot more about college baseball recruiting, including tips on how to get selected into the college of your choice, athletics scholarships, and financial aid at my website College Recruiting
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Websites Help Athletes Get Noticed by College Recruiting Services
Posted on March 4, 2011 by MoBy Ryan Coisson
The competition is rising for college sports scholarships. College recruiting services all over the nation now have more athletes than ever to pick from, but less money to offer on scholarships due to the current recession and cuts in education. There are several ways that you can help yourself or your kid get noticed in the sea of qualified applicants. But if you’re reading this, you know all the standard means of getting noticed amongst college recruiting services. Let’s look beyond the basic steps to competing for a college sports scholarship, and find out what really works in today’s society.
A key step today in getting a sports scholarship is for an athlete to have a professional website. These web pages should contain your stats, YouTube and other videos, biographical information, academic credentials, photos, news coverage and press releases, and other information that you would normally hand a college recruiter in a folder. By having all this information tidily packed into a well-developed website, you make it easy for recruiters to find you, keep tabs on you throughout your high school or junior college sports career, and contact you when they’re ready to send out a scholarship offer.
Whether you’re looking for a scholarship in football, cheerleading, basketball, tennis, track and field, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, baseball, golf, gymnastics, cross country, volleyball, swimming, or any other collegiate sport, the key is to get noticed by the recruiters. And getting noticed in today’s information pumped society means utilizing all available methods of marketing your talents to college recruiters.
College recruiters look for a number of things in prospective recruits, not just your abilities on the court or in the field. Make sure your academic report cards show that you can keep up with college material, and you don’t end up having to drop out because you can’t cope with college level math.
EZ SPORTS PAGE (MT Stuart & Company) is about college recruiting services.
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