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College Coaches Want Mature Recruits   There is no way around it, as an athlete and college prospect you will make mistakes. Sometimes they will be innocuous and have little or no impact on a contest. Other times, your miscues will hold more significance. One might even result in you or your team losing. Regardless, they will … Read more

The “D” Word Is a Mess On the Hands of Parents That Let It Happen Every week we are hearing it happening in high school across the land.  It’s a shameless action taken by an immature prep athlete.  In life it would be called going back on one’s word.  In recruiting it’s called decommitting.  Heck, look … Read more

NSR Is On the Ground with Our Clients Each day we get stories in about current and former NSR prospects who are doing the right things in their sport and in the classroom.  And nothing could make us more proud. At NSR we take the time to actually scout high school talent.  We get to know them … Read more

Game Performance Doesn’t Tell a Coach Everything Every college coach wants athleticism, right?  Naturally, but what else do they REALLY want to see from prospects they evaluate in person?  We have the answers: High energy, strong effort and focus during pre-game drills.   High school athletes are bent toward approaching pre-game drills nonchalantly.  College coaches notice … Read more

Staying In Shape Year Round Is a Must for the High School Prospect Panting like you’re on Biggest Loser.  Hands on knees and hips.  Glazed-over eyes.  Depleted strength.  Low energy. These are all signs of poor conditioning. And, college coaches notice. Prospects that want to make a lasting impression on college coaches have to take year … Read more

But First, Know Where You Stand and How to Reverse Course Oops!  What they said would happen just hasn’t come true, right?  “Wait, the coaches will find you.”  “Don’t worry, I know somebody in the athletic department.”  “As part of our club team, we’ll get your name out to colleges.”  Sound familiar?  Well, old habits die hard, but these are … Read more

Your Will to Succeed Faces a Daily Battle with the Gravitational Pull of Being Average The prep prospects that excel in college are those who create an uncompromising environment of success while still in high school.  They establish a pattern which carries them through the dog days of being a college freshman and into a solid college … Read more

Getting Through the Maze Is a True Challenge College athletic recruiting is a complex, intertwining maze of people and decisions which flows in no predictable way. With prospects, parents, coaches, advisors, peers and onlookers participating in varying degrees of influence, a recruit’s world is in constant flux. Call it “prospect interrupted.” We know that it all … Read more

“The” Talk?  Sooner Than Later is Better While there is a growing urban legend that earning a college degree is less valuable today than in previous decades, the facts attest to a far different story, flipping the idea on its proverbial head. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, workers 18 year of age and over … Read more

Prospects Can Help Themselves by Opening Up About Their Dreams What do you say to college coaches when you meet them? For college prospects that have a deep-seeded desire to play their sport at the next level, normal pleasantries aren’t enough to sway a coach. We’ve learned over the years as college scouts, that is, … Read more