| The dream of many high school student athletes is to | | | | abilities, similar skills and maybe even similar academic |
| be the best high school athlete that he or she can be. | | | | achievements? |
| You're working really hard. You're doing all the things | | | | Sometimes, it's being in a situation where you're going |
| you can as a player. You have achieved a certain | | | | to get the proper exposure to hundreds of college |
| level of success. Your dream is to just be the best. | | | | programs, where there's going to be a proper amount |
| Now all of a sudden you have achieved that goal. You | | | | of follow-up work done. The more that a college |
| have become the best that you can possibly be. You | | | | program hears about you over the course of a year, 2 |
| have honed your skills and now you feel that you | | | | years or perhaps your entire high school career, will be |
| could be a college player. | | | | a major plus for you. |
| The game has become fun to you and you want to | | | | Also remember that it could be the little things that set |
| be recruited. You want to play college ball. You want | | | | you apart from some of the other athletes. Maybe |
| to get that college education. You want to get that | | | | you're an inch taller, maybe you're in better shape, |
| scholarship. | | | | maybe your grade point average is a tenth of a point |
| Your dream is to play at the next level which is | | | | higher than the next persons, maybe you scored well |
| college. You have, over the years worked on your | | | | on the SAT or ACT tests, maybe you've written |
| game. During the summers, you played in the summer | | | | letters to coaches, maybe you've gotten your DVD to |
| leagues, you went to camps, and you went to | | | | coaches, and maybe you've developed a great |
| tournaments. You've done all those things because | | | | rapport with a college coach. |
| that's what the real good players must do. | | | | I believe the dream for many high school athletes is |
| Like most athletes in high school, who will at some | | | | just to play in college. That dream can become a |
| point develop a certain level of success and when that | | | | reality if you do a few simple and basic things. |
| happens, you want to go to the next level. It's only | | | | Exposure is number 1. Number 2 is follow-up work. |
| natural; that's what this is all about. There are many | | | | Getting your name out there and being able to be |
| high school athletes who never achieve that level of | | | | seen by college programs over the course of a year |
| success and they will never be college material, but for | | | | to 2 years is critical in your development. |
| the millions of others out there, they want an | | | | To achieve your dream, you need to do all the right |
| opportunity to play in college and they deserve that. | | | | things because college programs are not going to give |
| College recruiting is very confusing and it's a very | | | | everyone a college scholarship. Most student athletes |
| complex situation. You need to have the right tools, the | | | | are not scholarship worthy. It really comes down to |
| right materials, the right education, the proper | | | | talent and that's how you're going to get your |
| understanding and the right guidance to achieve just a | | | | scholarship. I would also focus on skill level; doing |
| certain level of success when it comes to being | | | | everything you can to become bigger, faster, stronger, |
| recruited. | | | | and better. Work on your skill level. |
| What is going to make you shine above another | | | | Think about being a great student athlete and think |
| student athlete or what's going to make you standout | | | | about being an even better student athlete. If you can |
| over another athlete who may have similar playing | | | | do that you will achieve your dream of being in college. |
