College Athletics

Your family's athletic scholarship dream can become a reality when you apply the recruiting steps clearly laid out in The Athletic Scholarship Playbook. Jon Fugler takes the mystery out of recruiting and athletic scholarships, providing parents and student-athletes a clear, actionable plan. This playbook is your recruiting road map that will lead you to success, covering steps for all sports, both men's and women's.

As the revenues generated by big-time college sports continue to skyrocket, virtually all of the debate involves whether (and how much) student-athletes should be paid for play. Kenneth L. Shropshire and Collin D. Williams Jr., argue that "student" has to come first: the focus should be on prioritizing a meaningful education. They draw on new research to reveal that it has become increasingly difficult for college athletes to balance school and sports, much less a social life, leading to serious economic, professional, and emotional consequences for young people.

Colleges provide over $12 billion in financial aid and scholarships annually. Of this, $2.7 billion is awarded each year for athletic scholarships. Only six percent of high school athletes compete for that $2.7 billion. Score College Scholarships is produced from the perspective of a college applicant, who received multiple offers and earned six scholarships. With the help of this book, student-athletes, and their parents will learn the most effective strategies to get noticed by college coaches, balance academic and athletic considerations, and choose the "best fit" school.

Every young athlete's dream is to earn a college scholarship. This is especially true today with skyrocketing out of state tuition, not to mention the cost of living expenses for college students. The information in this report will optimize your chances of making the dream of a college scholarship a reality. Scholarship or bust is broken down into four sections. Part one: Self Assessment Do you have what it takes to earn a starting spot on your team let alone a full athletic scholarship? The report will take you through a brutally honest self assessment questionnaire to help you set ...

Written by the director of basketball operations at Southern Illinois University (who also played at Illinois and assisted at Kansas), GO GET THAT SCHOLARSHIP! helps high school basketball players and their parents navigate the often stressful and confusing process of securing a college basketball scholarship. Filled with interesting anecdotes, indispensible lists (“The Six Things You Have to Ask a Coach”), tips on everything from highlight videos to walk-on tryouts -- even a college basketball preparation checklist -- this honest, revealing and downright funny book tells high school ...

The Alphahole billionaire you despise makes an incredible offer to buy out your pro NFL team with one condition: You are part of the deal. Ashleigh My dad warned me about guys like Grayson Donahue. Pro quarterbacks at the height of their career have their pick of hot girls. He would only use me and leave me broken. Dad was right: that's exactly what happened. Now, he waltzes back into my life with an offer I can't refuse. And I have to take it to save my late dad's legacy and save my team. Even though I hate his guts, I've always had a powerful attraction to bad boys like Grayson. So when ...

A collegiate track star will do anything to keep her coach from throwing her off the team. - "Previously published as Melody is a Back Door Whore by Duncan, Katie (AUTHOR)."

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has come under fire. Fans have begun to realize that the athletes involved in the two biggest college sports, men's basketball and football, are little more than indentured servants. Millions of teenagers accept scholarships to chase their dreams of fame and fortune - at the price of absolute submission to the whims of an organization that puts their interests dead last.

It’s all fun and games until a body washes up…. Beth Monroe just wants to make it through the summer baseball season without being the constant target of her brother Shane’s jokes, but he is relentless, and she’s ready to lock herself in her room and hide. Until the new girl shows up. Halley appears in small town Barryville like a ghost. No one knows where she came from or anything about her past, not even her last name. When she gives Beth a piece of unsolicited advice that, “It’s what’s on the outside that counts,” Beth changes everything about herself. By the time Beth ...