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NCAA, NAIA and
sports scholarships - NCAA--main
site
- The NCAA has once again completely revised its
website. The new site has a simpler introduction to the important areas
of interest to student athletes and college sports fans. It is harder
to link to specific pages than in the past but it is easier for you to
browse the site. Choose "Academics and Athletes" and start exploring
the subject of eligibility and recruiting.
 - NCAA Guide
for the College Bound Student Athlete
- The NCAA seems to change yearly how they link
this important guide. You can usually find it from the main NCAA home
page by following links to information for student athletes and parents.
- This brief
overview of the recruiting process is essential reading for
student athletes. You will need the Adobe
Acrobat reader to
view and print the online version. Some details of recruiting rules and
dates change every year. Always get the most recent version. New
versions for the coming school year are usually available online in
August or September.
- Please keep in mind that the NCAA Guide tells
the recruiting story from
the NCAA's idealized point of view. Actual recruiting practices vary
from this idealized picture and so you should get additional
perspectives like those in The Sports Scholarship Handbook.
- NCAA
Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse
- This is where you establish your academic
eligibility for NCAA Divisions I & II.
- NCAA
database of colleges and universities sponsoring sports
- This link provides access to the NCAA database
of schools sponsoring various sports. It allows you to select by NCAA
Division, conference and region of the country and then gives you a
list of schools with links to some information about the schools. You
can also find the competition schedule for a particular sport at a
particular school. The database does not provide direct links to the
schools's webpages or the schools sports pages. For that you should
look at the American Colleges and Universities
link or perform a "google"
search.
- NCAA Sports
News
- This site provides news stories and photos from
NCAA competitions. It is a lot of fun, but it does not provide links
back to the schools' sports websites or to their main webpages.
- NCAA
Divisional Manuals and other references
- This is a mother-lode of NCAA rules and
information. Much of it is pretty technical but it is the authoritative
source when you really need to know an NCAA rule.
- NCAA
College Transfer Guide
- The links to a current version of this guide
are not easy to find. For student-athletes who plan to attend a junior
college and then transfer to a 4 year school or student-athletes
attending one 4 year school and planning to transfer to another, a call
to the NCAA support phone line should direct you to the information you
need.
- National
Letter of Intent
- The college recruiting scholarship agreement
that most
Division I and all active Division II schools use when offering
scholarships.
- NAIA--main
website
- College recruiting and athletic scholarship
information for students considering NAIA schools.
- NAIA
Guide for the
College-Bound Athlete
- Information and advice from the NAIA for
student athletes considering NAIA schools.
- NIAAA--A
Guide for College-Bound Student-athletes and Their Parents
- The National Interscholastic Athletic
Administrators Association (high school sports administrators) has
produced this booklet to advise student athletes about college sports
and recruiting.
Getting started
- If you are interested in competing in college
sports and in receiving a sports scholarship it is never too early to
start.
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