About Alan Parham Day One of the NCAA early signing period today will be one of the most exciting days of their lives for thousands of high school seniors across America. Many of those signing over the next seven days will be prospects who have been promoted to colleges by National Scouting Report and guided by NSR scouts. NSR scouts … Read more
How many times have you read about it, seen it on TV or heard about it? A local high school prospect signs a National Letter of Intent during the NCAA early signing period only to later have a change of heart, quits during their first semester of college or transfers to another college because their … Read more
Kari Chavez is synonymous with winning and excellence. Eastern Washington’s Area Director for National Scouting Report, she was a top-tier volleyball player at Eisenhower High School in Yakima, Wash., in 1997. Recruited by more than 80 colleges, Chavez knows first-hand the demands associated with recruiting at the highest level. “I was recruited by schools from the PAC-10 … Read more
Brendan Kennedy knows what it’s like to earn his place in a crowd. The youngest of eight children, Kennedy learned quickly that being part of a big family meant working hard for what he wanted. It also taught him the importance of being respectful of others and their aspirations, attributes which have served him well as a National … Read more
Dave Johnson may not be among the flashiest area directors with National Scouting Report, but he is one of its most dedicated. When the calendar flips to 2016, Johnson will be celebrating his 20th anniversary with NSR in Daytona Beach, Fla. You will never meet a nicer guy. His kind demeanor and approach have formed the … Read more
National Scouting Report scout Ian Rankin was a football (soccer) prodigy as a lad in Motherwell, the capital of North Lanarkshire in Scotland. And in a nation that really loves its football, being a young phenom is saying something. North Lanarkshire is one of 32 council areas of Scotland, somewhat akin to our counties here in the … Read more
National Scouting Report is an American success story. Founded in 1980 by Bob Rigney in Birmingham, Ala., NSR was America’s first college recruiting organization. During the past three decades, NSR has enjoyed continuous growth domestically and abroad. Current expansion, however, has the company moving forward at an unparalleled pace. Today, the company is firmly in the capable hands of … Read more
Plenty of sports hounds dream of being a big-time sportscaster. There’s certainly a truckload full of incentives — travel, lights, cameras, hobnobbing with athletes, dining in first-class restaurants with A-list celebrities and all that. But nobody sees all the hard work it takes to arrive in that rare spotlight. Paying dues does not adequately cover it. … Read more
If you choose college coaching as a career, count on having a moving van on call. Such was the case for Sara Rondeau. It’s a hard life to be uprooted so often in search of the ideal job. Thankfully, Rondeau found that last year in Indiana. But the job she’d always dreamed of wasn’t in coaching … Read more
Virginia’s high school football Player of the Year. Not bad. Recruited by some of the region’s premier college football programs. Even better. But for Jim Simpson, National Scouting Report’s Northern Virginia area director, that’s where the good news ended — or so it seemed — in 1976. “My story should have been an athletic success … Read more
