Preparing for the fall can be fun, if you take the right attitude

Making plans for the summertime may seem a fun to-do list for high school athletes.  With free time staring you in the face, what is an athlete to do?

At NSR we are constantly aware of the necessity for preparation.  And even [...]

NSR 2013 softball prospect, Kendal Bayer, is a first baseman and outfielder from Howell High School in Howell, Michigan.  This past Saturday she had what could easily be characterized as a showstopper-type experience as she stacked up some extraordinary stats at the Fred Pieper Memorial Softball Tourney.  The 5’6″ multi-talented player, who last year was selected [...]

Unsuccessful experience promoting son to colleges leads parent to NSR

Riding from the hotel to the NSR home office this morning, I was talking to one of our new scouts from California.  He said that what really inspired him to become an NSR licensee and scout was that in 2010, when his son was a senior [...]

NSR scouts are on the up-and-up with prospects and parents from the first contact

Social Media is taking center stage at Ohio State University, but not in a good way. The alarming development exposes the Twitter activities of one Charles Eric Waugh, 31, a man listed on Kentucky’s sex offender registry. Waugh had reached out [...]

Sage College rookie infielder Kristen Beikirch (Brockport, NY/Brockport High) and former NSR softball prospect was tapped as the 2012 Skyline Conference Rookie of the Year, a program first for Sage. A multiple weekly award winner this spring, she set a Sage single-season hit record with her team-best 57 hits. She also leads the Gators [...]

Get moving with it, or get left behind

“It’s too early.  We’re going to wait.”  “Our son is only a freshman, so we’ll see what happens.”  “Our coach says that she is taking care of all that for us.”  “We have a friend in the athletic department at her favorite college who says that he’ll [...]

Sometimes it’s not all about sports

Throughout his four years at Paramus Catholic High School in Paramus, New Jersey, and now as a first-year student at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, former NSR basketball prospect, Vincent Viola, has maintained a delicate balance of academics and athletics. As a 6’7″ basketball player for the Lynx, [...]

For an NSR scout, it gets no better than this…

Hello Mr. Steele:  Hopefully this e-mail finds you and your family happy and well. I know that I have not spoken with you in a long time, so I’m just making sure that I continue to communicate with you to some extent. Besides simply that, [...]