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Are You a High School Athlete Aiming For College and Hoping for a College Scholarship?

Without a plan it is not likely to happen. The San Jose Mercury News recently reported that there are about 41 million kids who are involved in playing organized sports. However, only a small fraction of those players will be privileged to get the rarefied opportunity --6.9 million--to play at the varsity high school level.

Now compare that to the 360,000 student-athletes who play in one of the three divisions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Among those elite athletes, 126,000 earn a share of the $1 billion in athletic scholarships available. And while $1 billion sounds like a lot of money, it works out to less than $8,000 per athlete, which wouldn't cover even half a year of tuition at a private college.

By comparison, there is $22 billion available in academic scholarships, making the brain the body part most likely to earn a kid a college education.

So what's a parent to do? Experts say the real opportunity for kids in sports who are college bound and believe they have the ability to play at the collegiate level is to learn how to make the academic and athletic scholarship system work for them. There are many scholarships available, but they won't be coming and looking for you.

Sports play an important role in college; there are over 600 colleges that offer sports scholarships at the intercollegiate level. Today’s coaches do not have the time or money to find you; it is up to you to find the coaches and determine the school that is going to be right for you. 

To get recruited, and be in line for college sports scholarships you MUST become known to the college coaches. Your sporting ability can only get you recruited if you let the coaches know who you are, and what you can do in the form of a well developed resume or an online profile. There are no "secrets" to the recruiting process, it’s rather straight forward and is simply a marketing exercise and you, the athlete, are the product.

What we do at NBU Sports is based upon our knowledge of the college recruiting experience. It is not rocket science; it’s just plain hard work. We help you do you with our expertise and experience become a known commodity. 

At NBU Sports we know what coaches are looking for and will work with you to build your online profile accordingly.  

Your On Line Sports Profile

Most basketball players will have to market themselves. You should begin to determine how you are going to do this. One of the best first steps a college bound athlete should take is to begin to develop an on line profile. Having an on line sports profile will help you in the application process for college athletic scholarships. The key is to get recruited to playing a collegiate sport. Having an on line athletic profile that is available to coaches is a highly beneficial step toward getting a scholarship.

There are many athletic scholarships available to high school athletes, but you must have a professional look and appearance to be considered. An online profile that supplements a professionally prepared resume gives you the edge with the people who count; the college coaches.

Many young athletes (and their parents) under estimate what the sports recruiting process is all about. It takes time and it takes work. It is not easy and do not count on college coaches just coming to you with scholarship offers. It doesn't work that way unless you are in the top 2% of athletes who are graduating in your class. It is pretty hard to know who that group will be. In your senior year awards when those awards are being passed out it is too late, especially if you are not among that elite group. The challenge of trying to catch up and make up for the lost time and lost opportunites is just impossible.

That is why it is not too soon to begin to prepare for the goals that you want to achieve today.

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It doesn't matter how good you are, to get yourself recruited and be considered for a basketball scholarship you need to let the college coaches know who you are and why you deserve to be recruited. The most effective way to do this is with an online profile that is working for you 24/7 around the clock and 365 days a year.

Basketball is classed as a "head count" sport which means that the athletic scholarships that are offered are for a "full Ride." There are 327 Division I and 281 Division II colleges that offer Men's Basketball scholarships. There are also 325 Division I colleges and 279 Division II colleges that offer Women's  scholarships.

This means that there is a total of 7,061 Men's basketball scholarships available in the NCAA alone. For Women's basketball there are a total of 7,665 in the NCAA.

Some Facts

Many fine young players are overlooked each year because they did not submit their basketball profile to the "right" colleges or left out vital information. You should begin to think about developing your profile today and you must have a strategy for this process. It is not too soon to begin this process during your Freshman year in High School. Being aware of the requirements is more likely to result in a greater understanding of why grade achievement is so important. Unless you are a blue chip player don't expect the coaches to start knocking on your door, you are going to have to make it happen.

You will not get a basketball scholarship unless you market yourself. It’s also a fact that many colleges simply don't allocate all of their basketball recruiting funds because "suitable" athletes didn't approach them.

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