The West Coast volleyball world will revolve around Oregon this weekend. NSR area director and volleyball vertical co-leader, Kari Chavez (Washington), will lead a strong contingency of NSR scouts at the Matt Hartner Memorial Volleyball Classic on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene. This major tournament will host 232 teams in 18U … Read more
Coaches are looking ahead when it comes to recruiting. Many are looking four or five years ahead and evaluating athletes, from afar, before they can contact them. There is a nearly unrecoverable mistake most families make in recruiting. They wait too late to start the process. They think they are already in, but they aren’t. … Read more
Prospects and parents are ill-prepared for the realities of college recruiting. They enter excited about all the attention they will get from coaches. They can’t wait to see their athlete’s website go live. They are itching to tell their friends that they are being represented by NSR, the number one scouting organization in the world. … Read more
Know this: When an NSR scout enrolls your athlete, we swarm. No kidding. When your student-athlete’s profile, images and video hit our home office, a group of experienced pros gets busy. It is a coordinated, highly-organized effort that generates results. What we do is, in fact, called the NSR Gameplan. Your Gameplan is our game … Read more
NSR scouts are noticing an unhealthy trend in college recruiting. Far too many prospects and parents are failing to respect their recruiting rivals, the other kids in the same graduating class also vying for scholarships. When this happens, they miss the fact that there are literally hundreds of athletes out there as good, if not … Read more
More National Scouting Report prospects than ever are signing with NCAA D-I schools. This is not an anomaly. It is happening over and again, coast to coast. NSR scouts in every region of America are reporting that kids they work with are being recruited by and committing to D-I programs, and then signing Division I letters … Read more
Are you kidding me? NSR scouts hear that in every prospect interview. It is the reaction we get upon telling families that there are very few full athletic scholarships in college. Parents are aghast at the revelation. Prospects are stunned. But it is real. It is true. Nearly all college athletes are on scholarship packages … Read more
Take two essential ingredients out of a recipe and it’s ruined. Everybody knows that. But the back story is that you’ve wasted your valuable time and hard-earned money in the process. You can compare cooking to recruiting. Don’t laugh. I’m about to make my point, so stay with me. There is a recipe and then … Read more
National Scouting Report, America’s largest on-the-ground high school scouting organization, is pleased to announce an exclusive, long-term partnership with Pocket Radar, the world’s only pocket-sized speed radar device. “NSR is thrilled to be partners with Pocket Radar,” said Robert Cagle, NSR Vice President of Public Relations. “Pocket Radar CEO Steve Goody is a visionary thinker. … Read more
Frost on the grass. Jackets on. Breath visible. Must be time for baseball. It’s early November on the campus of Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina and National Scouting Report prospects, along with a handful of other prospects, are waiting for the frost to dissipate so they can stretch and warm up. While the day … Read more
