To Get A College Scholarship: Forget The Field, Hit The Books

Putting this in the sports forum instead of the education forum because the sports skill aspect interested me most.

Feel free to address the education and/or scholarship aspect, as well, if you desire.

To Get A College Scholarship: Forget The Field, Hit The Books

To Get A College Scholarship: Forget The Field, Hit The Books : NPR

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"Travel teams are also counterproductive. You don't get better at your sport by sitting in a van. You get burned out. Legendary Yankees catcher Yogi Berra was amazed to see his grandchildren traveling across the country just to take a few at bats. He said when he grew up in St. Louis, playing stickball with his buddy Joe Garagiola, they'd take 48 bats by dinner. Berra learned to hit by hitting.

And what about playing one sport all year? Even the great one, Wayne Gretzky, thinks it's crazy. He said, I was absolutely ecstatic to see the end of hockey season. One of the worst things to happen to the game, in my opinion, has been year-round hockey. Gretzky spent his springs playing lacrosse."

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"You want to succeed? Go outside and play. When you come in, do your homework, just like always."

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Thoughts?

radcen said:

Thoughts?

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It tells us what we already know but aimed at people who they think do not know.

It is probably safe to assume that the majority parents of high school athletes realize that obtaining an athletic scholarship is difficult enough, before even considering the likelihood of a college athlete being good enough to go pro.

It is probably also safe to assume that the majority of parents of all high school students know there is a plethora of means (academic scholarships, financial aid, debt, etc.) to obtain a higher education degree.

The argumentative part is a piece designed to tell the parents of high school athletes they are doing it wrong just because of the frequency of academic scholarships to athletic scholarships. As usual with pieces like this it assumes things that may not be so. Like aptitude athletically against aptitude academically, economic factors in terms of opportunity, etc.

If we want to complain about the number of athletic scholarships a given university can hand out for a given sport we have to look further than the university itself (as in the NCAA as a governing body impacting these things.)

If we want to complain about parents fighting for those elusive athletic scholarships then we might want to spend some time talking about the academic system itself instead of bitching about parents with arguably unrealistic expectations on obtaining an athletic scholarship for their kids.

radcen said:

Putting this in the sports forum instead of the education forum because the sports skill aspect interested me most.

Feel free to address the education and/or scholarship aspect, as well, if you desire.

Thoughts?

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Unless you are fabulous, forget sports other than to keep healthy and for bonding in the locker room or on the golf course. Work to be at or near the top of class, go for your MBA or PhD and get on with it. eace

radcen said:

Putting this in the sports forum instead of the education forum because the sports skill aspect interested me most.

Feel free to address the education and/or scholarship aspect, as well, if you desire.

Thoughts?

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There are many STEM scholarships that go unclaimed.
Many are for US Citizens, and frankly US Citizens do not seem that interested in STEM programs.
Hopefully that will change.