Watch who you hang with, they could help to make you or prove to break you  We seldom read about the trouble that high school or college athletes get themselves into without learning that they were in the company of ne’er do wells at the time. Athletes are not loners, for the most part.  There’s … Read more

We want our college athletes to be responsible role models   Sports fans across the country, or at least outside SEC-land, may not be aware of what’s happening today at the University of Alabama, but it is noteworthy to be sure. The Crimson Tide’s head men’s basketball coach Anthony Grant, himself a former Alabama star … Read more

We love our work because there’s nothing else like it You cannot do what we do, the way we do it, at National Scouting Report and not care about our high school prospect.  It’s impossible. From the moment we first hear about a prospect, we are locked in on that individual’s life and how she … Read more

At National Scouting Report, the accomplishments of our alumni are as important to us as those of our present clients.  And, because our OTG (ion-the-ground) scouts have such close ties with their client-athletes, we are always thrilled to hear when one of our own go on in college to do so well in their sport, … Read more

  Our Male Athlete of the Day is from Burnet High School in Burnet, Texas.  Zach Maldonado is a 2012 running b ack and slot receiver signed to play football next year at Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas.  This past fall the speedster was named to the First Team All-District Team as well as the First Team … Read more

National Scouting Report basketball prospect, Victoria Leroy, a junior from Riverside High School in Greer, South Carolina, recently led her team into the 4-A state playoffs when she tallied 21 points in a win over Hillcrest.  For her performance, Victoria was named The Greer Citizen Player of the Week  as well as the NSR Player of … Read more

Being a college student-athlete ain’t for sissies There is a Red Line Moment in the life of a high school athlete. It’s the moment when he or she decides whether or not to go for the brass ring of a college scholarship. That moment is unpredictable in its timing. It can hit home when the … Read more

Distant scholarships are tough to take for student-athletes unprepared to leave home I once sat outside in a gazebo with a single-parent father and his softball-playing daughter. For our appointment, she had surprised me by preparing a delicious dinner that the three of us enjoyed as we gazed across the Western North Carolina mountainscape and … Read more

Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Cameron Sealey has been named the South Atlantic Conference Women’s Basketball Player Of The Week, league officials announced. Sealey, a senior guard, earned the weekly award for the second time this season.  Cameron, a former NSR athlete from Mount Holly, N.C. and East Gaston High School, averaged 23.5 points and 7.5 rebounds in … Read more

Choosing who will guide you through recruiting can determine your success or failure to win a scholarship offer College recruiting is a science with rules that are constantly changing.   All sorts of different things come into play which are unknown to casual observers.  But, there’s just enough info spread around online and in newspapers that make … Read more