Take Action if You Want to Move to the Next Level

Are you sitting there wondering when a college coach will call?  Do you believe that if you make All-Conference, All-Region or even All-State that a coach will knock on your door?  Are you hoping that if your team has a good year that a [...]

Beware of Telemarketers Posing as Scouting Services

Scouting services which return to clients and ask for upgrades are ripping off the innocent, pure and simple. It’s happening with so-called reputable scouting firms and it’s time this practice is exposed for what it is — a way to dig deeper into your pocket.

When considering a [...]

Bring Your Parents Up to Speed on How to Get Ahead

High school prospects, your world as a an athlete is much larger than you might think.  Today college coaches are recruiting nationally, and internationally, more than ever.  Look at our home page and every day you will see athletes from across the United States [...]

Deciding to Commit is the Tipping Point

To many high school athletes whose desire it is to advance to the college level, work ethic usually relates to how hard they practice and then play their sport, and that estimation is an individual perspective at best.   They hear coaches, parents and fans say, “Work hard!”  They hear it [...]

It’s a Dance You May Have to Do Every Year

There is no easy way around it – the moment high school athletes decide to get involved with a travel (club) team, they (the athletes) risk entering the Forbidden Zone where two competing coaches constantly paw at the ground for attention, loyalty and supremacy. Like [...]

Young Athletes Can Take Instruction from Penn State Debacle

Hidden in the ruckus of the Penn State scandal is the effect one bad decision has had on a lifetime of good work by Nittany Lion head football coach Joe Paterno and how it sends a clear and vital message.  It’s a lesson which should not [...]

Rochester Professor Finds Cumulative Effect of Football Collisions

A study by Jianhui Zhong, a professor of imaging sciences and physics at the University of Rochester, has produced surprising as well as disturbing outcomes.  A football player on the Rochester team, Jeff Bazarian, had experienced a mild concussion and Zhong thought that a test his department was using for other purposes called [...]

These Six Things Will Put You in a Solid Position to be Evaluated

Good grades.  In today’s recruiting environment, the first things coaches go to are a prospect’s grades.  Take care of your academic business.  Include your core course GPA and any standardized test results.  Without good grades your options will be limited. 

Club team involvement.  After grades coaches want [...]

Facing the Music Early Helps to Make the Recruiting Process Smoother

Determining which level of competition you realistically fit is a necessary first step toward considering and eventually accepting scholarship offers. Over blowing your status in particular can easily result in missing solid scholarship opportunities.

Parents, friends and high school, club or travel coaches, and [...]