High school athletic prospects: Wait too long to be in the recruiting process at your own peril

Here’s a tip worth paying close attention to:  If you are a high school prospect, at any grade, get in the recruiting process now.  Waiting has no advantages.  None.  Nada.  Zilch.  Got it?

Put it this way – what’s the harm in jumping in early?

So, what is it we know that you don’t know?  Yes, we are a scouting service, but after 33 years of helping high school athletes get recruited and college coaches at every level of competition identify prospects, we should know a thing or two, right?  No doubt.  But, for grins, let’s put that scouting service thing aside.  Agreed?  Let’s talk facts.

It’s a fact that:

• College coaches start evaluating talent in the seventh and eighth grades.
• Only about one in fifteen high school athletes go on to play at the college level.
• Earning post-season honors does not get you recruited.
• Playing club or travel sports does not guarantee college coaches will find you and evaluate you.
• High school and club or travel coaches are limited in their reach to college coaches.
• It is not a certainty that a family connection to a college coach, administrator, employee, alumnus or booster will earn you a scholarship offer.
• Because you are the best player on your team that a college coach will recruit you.
• The poorer your grades the less attention you will receive from college coaches, even if they know about you.
• The better your grades the more attention you will receive from college coaches, if they know about you.

So, what can you do?  Go to www.nsr-inc.com.  Click on Locations.  Find the NSR scout nearest to you and find out.  He or she can, and will, help you.