NCSA College Recruiting Blog
Searching for Colleges? This Is the Only Tool You Need
There are more than 5,300 colleges and universities across the U.S.—so where do you start when trying to find the right one? With our College Search tool, you can easily filter through schools based on your specific athletic, academic and college fit criteria. Looking for Division 1 schools close to home that cost less than […]
What Is an NCSA Recruiting Assessment?
If you’ve created your free online recruiting profile with NCSA, you’ve probably received emails and calls from NCSA encouraging you to set up a time for your free recruiting assessment with one of our recruiting specialists. We’ve designed these calls as a way to gauge During this call, the recruiting specialist will also activate the […]
19 Questions College Coaches Hate the Most
One of the most important things to do when looking to compete in your sport in college is to form relationships with college coaches and continue to build them throughout the process. A great way to make a coach less interested in you? Asking the wrong questions. We talked to six former college coaches and […]
7 Ways to Celebrate Your Signing Day with Style
It seems like Signing Day celebrations get crazier each year, from the recruit who jumped out of an airplane to the football player who showed up to his Signing Day with six cakes. However, you don’t have to go to these lengths to celebrate your Signing Day. In fact, most student-athletes opt out of the […]
How to Manage Being a Multisport Athlete
These days, it seems like everyone is exclaiming the benefits of being a multisport athlete. And, it’s true, there are many benefits to playing more than one sport growing up. Experts suggest that it prevents overuse injuries, which are the result of repeating the same motions over and over again. It can also lead to […]
This Study Proves Just How Much Time College Athletes Spend On Their Sport
40-hour work weeks are the norm in most professions. On college campuses, amateur Division I student-athletes are expected to work much longer hours. The premier collegiate student-athletes essentially have two full-time jobs: student and athlete. To meet the demands of both, many Division I student-athletes end up committing nearly 60 hours to school and sports, […]
How Multi-Sport Athletes Should Use NCSA
So many high school athletes participate in more than one sport. You might even feel a strong connection with all of them when you’re in season — like softball is life for one semester, but then field hockey is life in another. Or, while it seems like there’s nothing as awesome as taking the field […]
15 Inspirational Quotes For Athletes
Freshman year is full of excitement, wonder and anxiety. If you’re gearing up for your first year of high school or college, then you are more than likely experiencing a combination of these three feelings and many more. It’s amazing how quickly we can go from being the big men and women on campus to […]
Should My Child Play Multiple Sports?
I ran into a good family friend this past weekend and we began catching up on what’s been going on with one another over the past couple of years. She has two sons who are seven and eight, and they are involved in many activities outside of school, both sports-related and other. We somehow got […]
Your Most Frequently Asked Questions Answered
After months of answering questions and responding to comments on our Facebook page we’ve gathered a list of the 5 most frequently asked questions/posted comments we’ve come across. The following should help you have a better understanding of how NCSA College Recruiting works and why setting up a profile might just be your next step to jump […]