Eligibility Center
Understanding the NCAA Eligibility Center
Interested in playing sports in college? Then pay attention, young blood. It’s true that your on-field performance is what will catch your next coach's eye, but it's your academic acumen [...]
Recruiting Terms You Need to Know
The start of the 2013-2014 high school athletic season is just around the corner, and with it the beginning of the fall recruiting season. Knowing the lingo of the recruiting [...]
How Guidance Counselors Affect the Recruiting Process
Believe it or not, high school guidance counselors can play a major role in your journey to play college sports. A counselor can be an asset or a detriment, depending [...]
You Want to be a Collegiate Athlete? Start Here: The NCAA Eligibility Center
The NCAA Eligibility Center collaborates with the NCAA to determine the eligibility of all incoming Division I and Division II freshmen student-athletes. Eligibility is determined through the Center's evaluation of [...]
Step One to Becoming a Collegiate Athlete: NCAA Eligibility Center
You want to be a collegiate athlete, but to accomplish that goal, where do you start? Simple: enroll in the NCAA Eligibility Center, an organization that collaborates with the NCAA [...]
Year-By-Year Academic Requirements
Falling one-tenth of a grade point short of college requirements? Missing the final ACT test date? Forgetting to register with the NCAA Eligibility Center? Whatever you do, don't sacrifice all [...]
The Difference Between Partial and Non-Qualifiers
Qualifying School, popularly known as Q-School, is how aspiring PGA pros earn their tour cards. Think of high school as your Q-School for playing college sports. You need to get [...]
Problematic Recruiting Situations
Use the terminology you just learned, along with advice from two experts, to simplify the recruiting process. Situation: According to author and Sacred Heart University pitching coach Wayne Mazzoni, high [...]
Hofstra University’s Wide Receiver Tradition
Division I-AA Hofstra University has a tradition of grooming sticky-handed wide receivers for the NFL. It started with former New York Jets star Wayne Chrebet. It was continued by Marques [...]
NCAA Initial Eligibility Center
Sports may be number one in your mind, but there’s a reason student comes before athlete in student-athlete. If you don’t give academics top priority in high school, you have [...]