Category: Author – Lynn West

Most college football coaches pay very little attention to prospective athletes when they are only freshmen in high school. Unfortunately, many parents and high school coaches basically do the same thing. The ninth grade is considered, by most, to be too early to be thinking about getting your son involved in the college football recruiting process.

However, here at College Athletic Scholarship, it has been our experience through helping thousands of high school athletes over the past fourteen years that a solid recruiting foundation can be started as early as the ninth grade. This, of course, depends on the maturity and determination of your ninth grade football player.

For example, is he willing to tackle the steps necessary to land a college athletic scholarship. Is he willing to learn and apply the steps in the recruiting process as they are given month-by-month? Is he willing to lay the groundwork that will put him ahead of his competition next year? If the answers to these questions are yes, then this book will take him and guide him through the foundational steps in the recruiting process.

If he does the steps as they are given, he will be prepared next year when there is a good possibility that he will see playing time. He will be familiar with basic recruiting terminology, and he will be physically fit to play for his team.

Contrary to what many people still believe, obtaining one of these coveted scholarships is a process, and in most cases the earlier, you start the more likely you are to play for the school of your dreams. This guide is for the student/athlete and his parents that want to get a jump-start on recruiting process. Fortunately, the process is simple. It really is just a matter of starting early and doing steps as they come along.

Conservatively speaking, college football scholarships can be worth in excess of $150,000 depending upon the school and the number of years your son takes to get his degree.

Unfortunately, even in the ninth grade, recruiting mistakes can be made. If your son is determined to win a college football scholarship and you approve, this guide, written by college athletic scholarship recipients, will not only get him started off on the right foot, but it will also keep him compliant with the NCAA guidelines.

If you are a senior in high school, and you haven’t yet had scholarship offers, this book can help you find the college football scholarship you have been dreaming about.

For most high school athletes, the football recruiting process was started in the earlier grades, but there are many athletes that don’t have their breakout years until they are seniors. They may have been injured as sophomores or juniors. Or there are other reasons, but regardless of the reasons why you’ve just started to shine, as senior athletes, this is crunch time for you as far as the recruiting process goes. There is no time to waste.

While this book gives you all the tools you will need to go the traditional route for landing a college athletic scholarship, in addition it also gives you many other creative methods for getting yourself noticed by the college coaches during this your senior year.

It teaches you how to get the big picture and how to stay alert for opportunities that may come your way late in the recruiting process. You’ll learn how to sniff out opportunities for scholarships that your competition won’t be aware of including a quick way to get all your information seen by the coaches at a moment’s notice even if you haven’t previously been in contact with him.

You’ll find instructions on how to approach the coaches the right way instead of turning them off. You’ll learn how to create a professional looking athletic profile, and how to make highlight videos that will be watched by the coaches. And you’ll also find out how to put up a personal athletic website. You’ll learn where to post your highlight videos and how to be prepared when the coaches ask for full game tapes.

You’ll discover other options for you to play football in college just in case the big state university doesn’t sign you. You’ll learn the difference between BCS and FCS schools as it relates to funding football programs and what it could mean to your scholarship.

If you are determined to win a college football scholarship, this guide, written by college athletic scholarship recipients, will guide you through the recruiting steps you need to take as a senior. It is a month-by-month guide for your senior year that not only keeps you compliant with the NCAA rules, but it also shows you what you should be doing each month to be recruited to play football in college.

Contrary to what you may have been told, financial aid for college expenses is available for almost anyone that really wants to get a college education. However, most high school students and their parents fall victim to the ridiculous myths that exist about how difficult it is to get the financial aid they need to pay for college tuition, books, board and other expenses.

For student/athletes that play sports, college athletic scholarships are not the only avenue for obtaining the funding you may need. Even if you do obtain one of the coveted sports scholarships, it may be only a partial.

Entering college with the money in the form of scholarships, loans, and grants is mainly a matter of starting early, investigating what’s available, planning and applying for the money that is available in any given year. Above all, you cannot wait until your son or daughter is a senior in high school to start applying for the funds to meet university expenses.

“Financial Aid For College” is a financial aid book that gives you all the information you will need to ensure that your child has money for college before he enters his freshman year. This guide to scholarships lists many little known financial aid opportunities and how to apply for them. And it also explains all the many different popular financial aid sources and when and how to apply for them.

From the sophomore through the senior year in high school, you are shown on a month-by-month basis what you should be doing to make sure that the college money you need is in hand and ready when you need it. The book is written in easy-to-use language, and it leaves nothing to chance.

If you have a child who wants to go on to college after high school, and you have no idea where to start looking for the funding, this book is a must for you. It is simply the ultimate scholarship book.

How many parents have stood helplessly by watching young athletes perform in sports only to see their own son or daughter miserably break down during the actual competition? These obvious mental lapses are due to lack of mental toughness, or what the sportscaster might announce as the inability to shake the last bad play.  Mental toughness training for sports should be one of the key elements of any sports training program.

Unfortunately, while most coaches’ put much thought and effort into teaching playing skills and training the physical body, few put much emphasis on developing what is often described as the mental side of the game. And to make matters worse, teammates often ridicule an athlete for losing what is now termed composure under fire or what used to be called choking.

This is a strange attitude given that it is common knowledge that mental toughness is now considered more that 50% of an athletes overall performance. Why don’t more coaches put more emphasis on the mental aspects of the game? Frankly, it is because they have not been taught themselves how to teach young athletes how to manage what they are thinking during the competition.

Developing mental toughness is not difficult, but it is something that takes practice just as every other aspect of your game.

Fear, is a major factor for many athletes who have difficulty staying composed throughout the competition. Others are short on confidence, and some suffer from an inability to focus and pregame anxiety and there are also several other reasons too.

Fortunately, there are proven ways to overcome literally ever mental problem, and in “Mental Toughness – Quickly Master Your Mind & Dominate Your Opponent”, you will find a check list for crushing everything from fear, to lack of confidence, to failure to focus, to losing composure under fire and everything in between. Athletes are given concrete ways to stop their minds from destroying their game before they find themselves on the slippery slope of lost composure, poor performance and losing.

With the information in this book, athletes can feel confident that they have a ready arsenal for beating any mental athletic difficulty as well as a quick reference book that can easily help them develop a mind as tough as iron.

Among all the sports mental toughness books I’ve seen, this short book gives you the key to mental toughness as it relates to psychology and sports. Every young athlete whether male or female should have access to this exciting mental toughness training.

Did you know that paying for college could be as simple as having a decent GPA? We all know the price of a college education is going up every year. With the present state of the economy, how many families can afford to pick up the price tag of from $60,000 to well over a $100,000 to send each one of their children to college? Not many, of that I can assure you.

Parents, though willing, simply cannot do it, so where will the money come from? Now, more than ever before, your child’s academic performance in high school can mean the difference between getting a higher education or not.

Most high school students and their parents know that academics are important, but it is clear from the low academic scores all across the country that many do not really realize that a good GPA combined with acceptable ACT/SAT scores and well-written essays are really the admittance TICKET for college.

Good grades are a free passage to college regardless of how rich or how low on cash a family may be. If you maintain a solid GPA, score well on your SAT/ACT and have a decent essay; you will be admitted to college. It is as simple as that. There is no excuse in the U. S. for anyone not getting a higher education if they really want one.

Typically, both parents and their high school age students fail to recognize the benefits of good study habits and making good grades until it is almost too late. There may be a last ditch effort during the first semester of the senior year to start bringing the grades up, but this late effort is usually not enough.

Beginning with the ninth grade and going through the twelfth grade “ Paying For College – What To Do Academically” guides your high school student through to academic success so that when the time comes to enter college, he or she will have the academic record it takes to be admitted and they will also be ready to do well in college level courses.

This book will appeal to your son or daughter’s sense of pride and responsibility toward their classes. When they actually realize that their daily attention to their studies can be their free ticket to a college education, they suddenly begin to focus on their academics in a new and productive way. They are given the tools the need to develop sound study habits, to do well on ACT/SAT tests, and they are guided through the process of writing essays that will be approved by college admittance committees.

A solid high school academic record is like having a huge college savings fund. It relieves parents of the considerable financial burden of having to pay for college out-of-pocket, and it gives your child a fantastic opportunity to take responsibility for paying his or her way through college. This book empowers high school students to take charge of their high school academics so that college admittance is something to be counted upon rather than something to worry about.

How are college Athletic Scholarships offered? Contrary to what you may think, college sports recruiting is a process that you can easily implement. However, it is a system that very few high school athletes or their parents know about.

The truth is, if your dream is playing college sports, you have to be proactive in the recruiting process. Athletic Scholarships is the athlete’s guide, the most helpful scholarship book you will find anywhere.  It shows you step-by-step how to get recruited. It shows you how to get noticed by the coaches and also how to “recruit” the college coach. In short it tells you all about scholarships for athletes and how to get scholarships for college.

Every year, thousands of talented student athletes make the mistake of thinking the college coach will automatically come knocking on their door to recruit them. This is total myth! A college coach rarely hounds down an athlete. Not only are NCAA scholarship rules governing recruiting getting stricter, but budgets for recruiting are being severely limited by some schools.

Unfortunately, you can’t sit back and wait and hope to be recruited, and you can’t depend on your high school coach to take care of it for you either. Learn how to get noticed by the coaches and get on their college recruiting radar.  Athletic scholarships for college are available, but, for the most part, they go to the athletes that have learned how to gain the attention of college coaches.

Find out what will help you get an offer and also what will instantly keep you from getting college sports scholarships. There are certain things you must avoid if you want to stay in the running.

One of the main keys in the process of getting recruited for these coveted athletic college scholarships, is to start the process early.

Don’t give up on your dreams. Start now so that you land a spot on the college team of your dreams. Do what is necessary to get recruited. Let signing day be your biggest joy, not your biggest disappointment. Whether you are interested in football recruiting and football scholarships, or any sport, this guide can take you all the way to signing day.  It is the handbook for athletic scholarships.

Becoming a college athlete with an athletic scholarship allows you to play the sport you love and get a college education at the same time.

What could be more exciting or more rewarding?