The College Sports Track

March 12, 2012

March Madness

March Madness begins, and I’m not talking about basketball. Sure, the NCAA tournament begins this week and it attracts a great deal of interest and excitement. It captures the essence of college competition where young athletes have opportunities to compete on a big stage. But what about you? Would you like to compete one day [...]

Filed Under: Strategy

March 8, 2012

Back-End Recruiting, Seniors, part 1 of 2

High School seniors, don’t despair, but don’t give up either. You can still land a college roster position. How? We call it Back-end Recruiting. It’s our strategy designed to find high school seniors college roster spots during the spring of their senior year. Here’s how it works: You’ve submitted applications and where possible, submit a handful [...]

Filed Under: Recruiting, Strategy

March 8, 2012

Competitive or Over-bearing?

My son Jeff and I were talking about parenting of athletes. Jeff is a youth sports coach, working with many athletes and their parents. The discussion led to me talking about him as a youth athlete, so it progressed to Jeff talking about me as a sports parent. It is very interesting to hear from our children how [...]

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March 5, 2012

Understanding Perspective of Colleges and Their Coaches

It’s March. Seniors are making their college choice this month. You have visited several colleges and met with many college coaches. You qualified for admissions. You secured a college roster position, or did you? You received a top financial award as well, or did you? In making your decision, do you really know what the [...]

Filed Under: Finances, Grades and Study

February 12, 2012

Decide Upon Your Goal and Launch It

You play high school sports, you join travel teams, you attend showcases and camps, you have a personal trainer, and you love sports. But what’s your goal? College sports? ”Decide upon your goal and launch it”- UCLA Legendary Coach John Wooden. So you’ve decided, your goal is to play college sports. Beginning your push towards securing a college roster [...]

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February 9, 2012

College Recruiting, and the 3 A’s to maximizing your scholarship

Do you want to pay the most you can for college? Of course not, but most will. Why? Because most families don’t know how to maximize their scholarship award. While we specialize in athletic-based awards, the one scholarship award that athletes control best is the academic-based merit award.

Filed Under: Grades and Study