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Matthew LePoint can throw the rock and college coaches are noticing. The 6-foot-one, 195-pound right-hander consistently rings the bell in the mid-80’s and recently hit 90 at the Florida Baseball Ranch in Plant City, Florida. Florida Baseball Ranch is a well-regarded facility where Matt is learning, among other key things, how to more effectively engage his lower half. You … Read more
Everyone should be so lucky as to sit in a room full of new NSR scouts in training. With our home office team pouring over 1,000-plus candidates monthly, a daunting task to be sure, just being chosen makes them singularly qualified. Like with our prospects, NSR is not an open enrollment company for aspiring scouts. … Read more
Hanna Laube has climbed to the top in Canadian youth volleyball. Recently named as a setter on the nation’s developmental program, Hanna is also making her mark in tournaments across the United States. Gold medals, top team finishes and championships are nothing strange to this 5-foot-10 junior standout from Dr. Frank J. Hayden Secondary School … Read more
There is no denying it. Every prospect’s top nemesis? The clock. With a short four years to be recognized, evaluated, compared to other like athletes, and finally recruited, make campus visits, and perhaps offered, every tic-toc of the clock counts. Those are a lot of things which need to happen. The less time a family has … Read more
Prospects, find what turns your world and you will discover true passion. At National Scouting Report, we watch high school prospects every day. Our observation antennae are always on high alert. We scout, watch and communicate with more young athletes than most people do in a lifetime. It’s what we do. We do this because … Read more
Prospects have 10 seconds to grab a college coach’s attention. That’s all. Whether on paper, online or in person, athletes either reel them in or lose them, that’s right, in 10 short seconds. How’s that supposed to happen, you ask? I deserve more consideration than that, you say. Both are good points. Reality is reality … Read more
“Select company” carries special meaning for National Scouting Report senior baseball prospect Nathan James. The 6-foot-five-inch, 215-pound corner and pitcher from Newsome High School in Lithia, Florida, was one of only 50 high school students across the globe chosen to attend the Four Star Leadership Program this past summer. That selection truly put James in select company. Besides … Read more
Former National Scouting Report football prospect John Youngblood was recently awarded the 2016 Chucky Mullins Courage Award at the University of Mississippi. Youngblood, a redshirt senior defensive end, was selected from among several veteran defensive players by head coach Hugh Freeze and the Ole Miss coaching staff as the player who best exemplifies Mullins’ courage and … Read more
There may be a handful of 6-foot-two freshman softball pitchers in America. Jaycie Cline is an NSR prospect, she is one of them and she is very good. Her height definitely gives her an advantage in the circle, but what may be her biggest plus side is that she is a relentless competitor. NSR’s national … Read more
“The box”. Every sport has a recruiting box. Volleyball is no exception. Not all athletes are a Division I fit. But no matter the level you want to play, college coaches check “the box” first to see if an athlete looks like a fit on paper. What box do you fit in? In Division I, … Read more
