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How to navigate the confusing world of athletic scholarships

I’ve appreciated being subscribed to the NCSA website. They have regular insightful articles. Today’s email from them talked about navigating the confusing world of athletic scholarships. With the cost of college and the prestige of the “full-ride”, more than ever, parents are asking questions.

Bottom line, fewer than 2% of high school student athletes will be offered athletic scholarships. In NCAA Division 1 and 2 that is $3.1 billion annually!

Check out the road map at http://www.ncsasports.org/recruiting/how-to-get-recruited/scholarship-facts

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Making Failure Your Fuel to Succeed

The comments from Abby Wambach in the commencement at Barnard College in New York City are a great reminder. She refers to the “gift of failure” and it is the right reminder about how to react to losses. It applies to losing a game or failing to meet your goals. You can learn more from your game film in a losing game than a winning game. Don’t hide your failure. Learn from it or you end up wasting it. 

“Here’s something the best athletes understand, but seems like a harder concept for non-athletes to grasp. Non-athletes don’t know what to do with the gift of failure. So they hide it, pretend it never happened, reject it outright, and they end up wasting it. Listen: Failure is not something to be ashamed of, it’s something to be powered by. Failure is the highest octane fuel your life can run on. You gotta learn to make failure your fuel.
Abby Wambach

Read the full article at: http://changingthegameproject.com/make-failure-your-fuel

 

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Woods, Dezmond

Dezmond continued to develop his skills and play on a number of recreational and AAU basketball teams before getting his first opportunity to play on …