About Alan Parham Laura Allen was a single parent of three and a school teacher when I met her as an NSR scout. It’s an experience I’ll never forget. Having seen me at several of her middle daughter’s basketball games, Laura had asked around about me and had discovered what I did for a living. Someone told her … Read more
We are extremely proud to introduce Ernesto Ruiz Bry as NSR’s International Tennis Scout. As a former Davis Cup player for Argentina and personal coach to such professional players as Mary Jo Fernandez, Guillermo Vilas, Cedric Piolin, Ronaldo Agenor and Claudo Mezzadri along with Argentina’s number one junior player, Augustin Savarino, Florida’s top junior Simon … Read more
Laurel Ivory, a 2018 NSR soccer goalkeeper prospect, has been named to the Florida State ODP team as the A-team goalie, for the third year in a row. This week Laurel, a rising freshman at Miami Country Day School, is also participating in her third Region 3 ODP camp in Montevallo, Ala. And , this week … Read more
The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA TODAY High School Sports, has named NSR junior softball prospect, Julia DiMartino of Brockport High School, as its 2013-14 Gatorade New York Softball Player of the Year which distinguishes her as New York’s best high school softball player. The 5-foot-6 junior right-handed pitcher led her Blue Devils team to … Read more
Former NSR prospect and Niagara University Purple Eagle, Jordan Schwartz, was selected last week by the Oakland Athletics in the fourth round with the 132nd pick of the 2014 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Jordan, a 6’2″ right-handed pitcher and outfielder from Hornell, N.Y., is the second highest drafted player in NU’s history. Schwartz was the … Read more
Seven years ago, when Georgiana Salant became an NSR prospect in Southern California, her expectations were relatively simple – to play college golf. Today, Georgi not only can say that she accomplished that early goal, but that she has also achieved an objective which was incomprehensible when she was a high school freshman. Today, Georgi is a two-time First … Read more
Over the weekend, an interesting tweet came across my Twitter account. The first thing that caught my attention was that it was a re-tweet from Missy Tiber. Coach Tiber was the head women’s basketball coach at Belmont Abbey College near Charlotte, N.C., when I was an NSR scout. I visited the Belmont Abbey campus numerous … Read more
You’ve heard the numbers. On average only about 1 in 15 high school senior athletes go on to participate in college athletics. Many more want to, yes, but line up 100 seniors and you can count on a paltry 6.6 of them getting the opportunity to live their dream. So what makes the difference? What … Read more
Kurt Moore is a 2016 Goal Keeper from Woodland-Bartow High School in Cartersville, Georgia where he made the All-County Team as a freshman. Kurt plays club soccer with U16 Classic I Southern Soccer Academy 98 Elite. During fall 2013, Kurt tried out for – and made – the Olympic Development Program. And in April 2014, … Read more
As college scouts, we interview a lot of high school prospects. Whether a senior facing the final months of their prep careers or seventh graders about to enter the recruiting fray, one question consistently pops up: Will my coach help me? Good question. We seldom see these coaches refusing to help athletes and their families, … Read more
