Shirley White-Stevens, CFP®,CCPS
College Counseling Services by Shirley White-Stevens, CCPS
The Student-Athlete
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Will Your Student Play College Sports?
Today, there are more than 360,000 students that play college sports. Many of these high school student-athletes could get athletic scholarships, but don’t because:
- They go un-noticed by colleges that are out of their local media area.
- They wait till their senior year of HS hoping that college coaches will come to them.
- They have an unrealistic opinion of their athletic abilities and only look at attending Division I colleges
To increase the odds of getting noticed, getting recruited and getting a scholarship; you must take a proactive self-promotion approach. If college coaches don’t know you exist, how can they possibly recruit you? And if you don’t keep a flow of communication with the coaches, either by phone or by update, how can you expect them to think you’re still interested in their school?
Only 1% of all high school student-athletes will be offered full-ride scholarships to play college sports. If you are not yet one of these blue-chip athletes, then the only way to get noticed outside of your own local media area is to market your self to the college coaches. You can still get a partial scholarship! To do so, every high school athlete should start the recruiting process with the intention that:
- They are going to college to get an education
- They need to look at schools representing Division II and Division III, as well as the NAIA
- They need to plan ahead to find ways to pay the balance of college expenses.
A partial scholarship is still a winning game. We can help you develop an overall college-afordability plan to pay the rest of your college costs in the event that the athlete is not given a full ride athletic scholarship.
Get Recruited
Get More Scholarships
Our program can increase the odds that your HS student-athlete will get recruited by colleges. Even after admission to a college and a college team, only 10% of these college athletes get “full-rides”. The other 90% will only get partial scholarships. We can help your student-athlete market their talent to increase their grants. We can help:
- Get the athlete recruited by colleges
- Maximize their scholarship potential
- Provide solutions to pay the balance
A major aid is the “Student-Athlete Rx” program. This is a six step self-promotion system that:
- Attracts the college coach’s attention early in the recruiting process in order to get the athlete at the top of the coach’s recruiting list.
- Provides strategies to maximize the potential athletic scholarships.
- Provides strategies to pay for the balance of college expenses, if the student-athlete only receives a partial athletic scholarship.
This Six-Step System Will Dramatically Increase Your Odds Of Getting Recruited!
The 6 Steps to Success in Athletic Recruiting:
Step 1: How to Pick the Right Colleges to Contact
Step 2: How to Write a Great Cover Letter to the College Coach
Step 3: How to Create an Effective One-Page Resume
Step 4: How to Put Together an Athletic Recruiting Video
Step 5: How to Track your Communications with Colleges
Step 6: How to Structure Progress Reports to Update the College Coaches
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The Tuition Rx
Student-Athlete Marketing Program
The “Student-Athlete Rx” program is a step-by-step, do-it-yourself college athletic recruiting system specifically designed to help the student-athlete to get noticed by college coaches. This program is facilitated by a certified advisor who is trained to guide the student-athlete through a six step self-promotion system, which includes:
- “Student-Athlete Rx” Guide and Instructional CD
- “Six Steps to Success”
- 1 hour step-by-step instructional CD for the student-athlete
- Complete templates to quickly create letters to coaches, resume (profile), tracking system, and progress update form
Access to the Tuition Rx Website:
- A college planning resource center for student-athletes
- Bi-Monthly College Plan Newsletter
- Financial Game Plan
- Strategic financial analysis with design strategies to help pay the balance of college expenses.
