National Scouting Report basketball prospect, Victoria Leroy, a junior from Riverside High School in Greer, South Carolina, recently led her team into the 4-A state playoffs when she tallied 21 points in a win over Hillcrest.  For her performance, Victoria was named The Greer Citizen Player of the Week  as well as [...]

Being a college student-athlete ain’t for sissies

There is a Red Line Moment in the life of a high school athlete. It’s the moment when he or she decides whether or not to go for the brass ring of a college scholarship. That moment is unpredictable in its timing. It can hit home when the [...]

Distant scholarships are tough to take for student-athletes unprepared to leave home

I once sat outside in a gazebo with a single-parent father and his softball-playing daughter. For our appointment, she had surprised me by preparing a delicious dinner that the three of us enjoyed as we gazed across the Western North Carolina mountainscape and [...]

Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Cameron Sealey has been named the South Atlantic Conference Women’s Basketball Player Of The Week, league officials announced. Sealey, a senior guard, earned the weekly award for the second time this season.  Cameron, a former NSR athlete from Mount Holly, N.C. and East Gaston High School, averaged 23.5 points [...]

Choosing who will guide you through recruiting can determine your success or failure to win a scholarship offer

College recruiting is a science with rules that are constantly changing.   All sorts of different things come into play which are unknown to casual observers.  But, there’s just enough info spread around online and in newspapers that make [...]

We love it when an NSR prospect gets props.  In this case it’s Amanda Roosa, a 2012 softball player from Allegany-Limestone Central School in Allegany, New York, who was recently the featured athlete and interviewed by our own NSR Rochester AD, Tom Sydeski.  for Section V talksback.com.  Here’s Tom’s probing interview [...]

The finish line may be within sight 

You pay to play in America, even in youth sports. Whether it is a fee for the local little league or basketball team, community park soccer or gymnastics team, you pay. The families that want their athletes to go farther put out cash for travel and club teams, [...]

The news which we had dreaded came yesterday as the NSR staff was wrapping up the day. Our dear friend and college coach liaison, Tommy Barnhill, had just passed away following a four-month-long and courageous battle with cancer. Tommy was a legend in the Alabama softball fastpitch community. He taught pitching lessons for 35 years [...]

We are excited to introduce Ricky Wyatt as our Male Athlete of the Day.  The 5’11″, 233-pound linebacker from Neville High School in Monroe, Louisiana and carrying a 3.2 GPA has signed to play for Central Arkansas in Conway.  His NSR scout is Clay Parker.  Ricky has a long list of accolades [...]

NSR is very pleased to announce that Morgan Parmer, a 2012 softball prospect from Handley High School in Roanoke, Alabama is our Female Athlete of the Day.  Morgan has committed to play for Alabama Southern College in Thomasville.  The 5’11″ pitcher  carries a 3.2 GPA and plans to study Physical Therapy.  As a junior, [...]