Athletic College Recruiting – Secrets To Getting An Athletic Scholarship

Posted by Kenney on Aug 3, 2007 in Featured | 0 comments

I hate watching high school athletes fail miserably at getting recruited when it should be so easy.

No matter what sport your in or how good you are, if you want to have the greatest chance of getting an athletic scholarship, you’ve got to at least do the bare I have listed below…

1. Keep or get your grades up. The Clearing House can give you the requirements you need to be eligible.

2. Make sure you have passed the SAT or ACT depending on your school of choice. Make sure you get an updated list of what you have to score according to your GPA. Now don’t settle for just getting by, take the test again and work on getting your GPA up. Some universities require higher scores for their schools.

3. Register with the NCAA Clearing House.

4. Contact at least 100 schools and submit an “athletic questionnaire”. No, your coach isn’t going to do it for you. If you think so, the next time you see them ask “How many letters have you sent out on my behalf”? I’ll save you the time…None. Maybe there have been inquiries about you and they have returned calls, but that’s not actively marketing you. Your coach has probably told you that if you are going to get a scholarship the colleges/universities will contact you. Bologna! Yes, some will… but you will never reach the full potential of choices you have until you actively market yourself.

5. Practice diligently and consistently perform well in your games. Just relax and give it all you’ve got every single game. Obviously, you have to have skills. But you’ll be surprised at what some coaches see, I think they call it…… Potential! If you couple that with great work ethic and #6 below you’ve got a great chance.

6. Have a good attitude and be likeable! It seems, these days, “young folk got bad attitudes”. It’s like they’ve got a chip on their shoulder. Well, even though there are 150,000 new scholarship available every year, there are millions of athletes, so one way to stand out is to be likable.

You can get the athletic college scholarship you want, at a school of your choice, but avoid one of the steps above and you may end up paying for college or worse…At Home for your freshman year.

To Your Immediate and Lasting Success,

Kenney Jr. & Kimberly
Director