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What are your chances? What’s in your control? What’s your back up plan?

What are your goals? Graduating from High School? College? A sports scholarship? Academic Scholarship?. What are your chances? What’s in your control? What’s your back up plan?. What are the chances of a sports scholarship?. Only 2%! (2)

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What are your chances? What’s in your control? What’s your back up plan?

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  1. What are your goals?Graduating from High School?College? A sports scholarship? Academic Scholarship? What are your chances? What’s in your control? What’s your back up plan?

  2. What are the chances of a sports scholarship? • Only 2%! (2) • And that’s not necessarily the school of your choice!

  3. Heads up! • Of that 2% the average amount of this is less than $11,000.00 which will not cover the full cost of your college expenses. (5)

  4. ADVERAGE COST OF COLLEGE • Private School - 43,000.00/YR (4.) • In State Tuition for Public – 22,261.00/YR (4.)

  5. What are the chances of you playing for a college in your sport ? **The following figures include the vast majority of athletes that are not on scholarship as well as the few that are on scholarship.

  6. More than 60% of all NCAA athletesdo not receive athletic financial aid.

  7. Men’ s Basketball • 546,335 in High School • 16,571 in NCAA ( College) • 44 drafted to pros • 3% from High School to College • 1.2% NCAA to Pros • .03% High School to Pros (3)

  8. Women’s Basketball • 452,929 in High School • 15,096 in NCAA ( College) • 32 drafted to pros • 3.3 % from High School to College • 1.0 % NCAA to Pros • .02 % High School to Pros (3)

  9. Football • 1,071,775 in High School • 61,252 in NCAA ( College) • 250 drafted to pros • 5.7 % from High School to College • 1.8 % NCAA to Pros • .08 % High School to Pros (3)

  10. Men’s Soccer • 358,935 in High School • 19,797 in NCAA ( College) • 44 drafted to pros • 5.5. % from High School to College • 1.7 % NCAA to Pros • .07 % High School to Pros (3)

  11. Baseball • 470,671 in High School • 28,767 in NCAA ( College) • 600 drafted to pros • 6.1 % from High School to College • 9.4 % NCAA to Pros • .45 % High School to Pros (3)

  12. What can you do to increase your chances of getting into the school of your choice?

  13. COLLEGE COACHES WANT • TO RECRUIT ATHLETES THAT WILL SUCCEED ACAMEMICALLY! (6) • Your SAT and ACT test scores will be used as predictors of your academic success! • Your must have a GPA of a 2.0 • The higher the better!

  14. What else? • The better the college the more rigorous the standards for admissions. • Taking AP exams ( Advanced Placement) will show your dedication and may even test out of a college course this way!! • Participation in extracurricular activities and volunteer work will show that you can handle the pressures of school and your sport while taking on other activities.

  15. IMPORTANT!!!! • Can an athletic scholarship or ability overturn academic denial? • NO(1) • Recruits need to make the same academic standards of both the NCAA and the university.

  16. WHAT’S YOUR BACK UP PLAN? • NO MATTER WHAT IT IS, GRADUATING FROM HIGH SCHOOL INCREASES YOUR CHANCES FOR SUCCESS IN LIFE! • GRADUATING FROM COLLEGE INCREASES YOUR CHANCES FOR A HIGHER PAYING JOB!

  17. READY SET GET SMART!

  18. REFERENCES 1.) Lancaster, Ken. "Athletics Cannot Guarantee School Acceptance." (Sept, 24 2012): <www.collegesportsscholarships.com>. 2.) Manfred, Tony. "Here are the odds that your kid becomes a professional athlete (Hint: They are small)." (Feb. 10th 2012): <www.businessinsider.com>. 3.) "Percentage chance of playing NCAA college sports." <www.collegesportsscholarships.com/percentage-high-school-athletes-ncaa-college.htm>. 4.) Clark, Kim. "Tuition at Public Colleges rises." (Oct. 24th 2012): <http://money.cnn.com>. 5.) O'Shaughnessy, Lynn. "8 things you should know about sport scholarships." (Sept. 20th 2012): <www.cbsnews.com>. 6.) "IF YOU WANT TO PLAY COLLEGE SPORT YOU NEE GOOD GRADES." COLLEGE SPORTS SCHOLARSHIPS. n. page. Print. <www.collegesportsscholarships.com>.

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