other amazing opportunities for your future? If so, you’ve come
to the right place.
This book is designed to help your son or daughter become
a successfully recruited high-school student athlete. It is con-
structed to provide you with the tools, devices, and strategies
to give you the best opportunity to continue an athletic career
in college and to receive financial aid based upon your athletic
ability. For the purposes of this book, the term financial aid
will include scholarships, grants, low-interest loans, or any
combination of the above. In short, The Sports Scholarships
Insider’s Guide is intended to give you an advantage over other
equally qualified student athletes who dream your educa-
tional, athletic, and financial aid dream.
I am uniquely qualified to lead you through the tangled
web of recruiting confusion, duplicity, and unfairness. For
twelve years I coached at a NCAA member university. One
of the primary responsibilities in my position was recruiting
high-school student athletes.
I coached at three high schools in two Midwestern states over
a fourteen-year period. Much of this time was spent working
with college recruiters, as well as the parents and prospects of
those who were being recruited. I have two grown children who
were both successfully recruited: one by a Division I state uni-
versity and the other by a private Division III college. One was
an All-American and the other’s career was cut short by injury.
I empathize with the positions that all the parties involved
find themselves in. I know intimately what each one is going
through during all phases of the recruiting process, especially
the crucial and fragile negotiating prior to an offer of athletic
or other financial aid and a roster position. I owned a col-
lege prospect recruiting service. My clients were academically
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