No family is perfect. No team is perfect, either. It is how teams work through and around their dysfunction that matters. Like families with divergent interests, values and beliefs, teams can be hard work if they truly want to stay intact. At National Scouting Report, our scouts watch prospects every day at games, matches, meets, … Read more
Team captains can be great or they can be off-the-charts bad. As a new school year approaches, high school seniors, and some juniors, will be elected or selected to captain their teams. Some take it seriously. Others take it too seriously. That’s not good. A few years back, I was working with a National Scouting … Read more
Potential Scouts: Apply Here! Where You’d Like to Scout: – Select One –Domestic (inside the U.S.)International (outside the U.S.) Your Primary Sport of Interest: – Select One Sport –BaseballCheerleadingMens BasketballWomens BasketballEquestrianField HockeyFootballGolfGymnasticsIce HockeyLacrosseSoccerSoftballSwimming and DivingTennisTrack and Cross CountryVolleyballWrestling How did you hear about us? – Select One –Zip Recruiterworkinsports.comjobsinsports.comFacebookLinkedinNSR Scout (referral)Former NSR Athlete (referral)Google / … Read more
The evolution of National Scouting Report continues. NSR president Rusty Rigney announced this week at the company’s four-day national meeting in Allen, Texas, that Evolution 2.0 will be launched in September. The launch will come just nine months after the world’s oldest and largest college recruiting organization unveiled Evolution, a state-of-the-art, interactive portal system for … Read more
Parents of college prospects have some weird, baked-in assumptions about recruiting. Some are founded on just enough info to steer them in the wrong direction. That is so dangerous when a child’s future is at stake. Some are really outdated to the point of making somebody in the recruiting business, such as a National Scouting … Read more
I don’t know how to put it any more bluntly: Parents are lousy at promoting their own high school athletes to college coaches. And once they start down that road, they put their children in a deep hole. Recruiting is far more time sensitive than parents have a clue about. Every day counts from the time … Read more
Want to increase your chances of playing college sports and earning scholarship money? Hit the books. College coaches are seeking good athletes with good grades and good character — the same qualities National Scouting Report scouts seek in prospects they hope to enroll with the nation’s oldest and largest college recruiting organization. Nothing is more … Read more
Want to be an on-the-ground area scout for National Scouting Report? You might want to think twice because what we do for a living takes a special person with a lot on the ball (pun intended). If I had a nickel for every time some sports fan, parent, coach or bystander said to me, “I … Read more
Want to be an NCAA student-athlete? Good luck! Regardless of how good you are — or how good you think you are — the odds are stacked against you. According to scholarshipstats.com, only 5.2 percent of boys high school athletes and 5.6 percent of girls high school athletes will compete in NCAA sports. Of those, … Read more
National Scouting Report scouts are constantly drawn to prospects with a “warrior mentality.” We know this from thousands of one-on-one conversations we have each year with college coaches. They tell us they love to see a prospect whose undeniable competitive spirit jumps out at them. The average prospect doesn’t have it. Their desire to compete, excel and win … Read more
