The inside scoop on collegiate sports eligibility:
A high school student-athlete's guide
by: Frederick A. Landy, M.A.
For some, their ‘sports journey’ has been since the age of four years old, when one’s parent/guardian signed him up for that little league baseball team for boys or for her at six years old playing little league softball for girls.
For another it was since middle school, when one wanted to try something they never had before, so he or she joined the basketball team. Then there are those that made a decision, with their parent’s approval of course, to play high school sports, so from ninth grade to now one’s last year of high school, track & field, tennis and even swimming has been a highlight of one’s ‘over-all high school journey’.
Yes, academics will always be the main focus in one’s ‘educational journey’, but how does one continue with a ‘sports journey’ outside of one’s ‘over-all high school journey?’ It is through such insight given below that will help in answering this question.
⦁ For those interested in playing NCAA Division I collegiate sports: (NCAA Clearinghouse now National Scholastic Athletics Foundation (NSAF) STUDENT-ATHLETES go to https://web3.ncaa.org/ecwr3/.
QUESTIONS TO ASK ONESELF BEFORE REGISTERING:
Once following through with these steps, my advice would be to stay focused academically and meet with your counselor, college, advisor, etc. on a regular basis to stay in line with eligibility as you go through the rest of the school year!! Oh and don’t forget, #yougotthis!!
This article originally appeared in the Grand Valley State University TRIO-Educational Talent Search Fall 2018 newsletter.
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