Every college coach uses one – the infamous recruiting board. Your prospect should be on as many recruiting boards as possible to stand a chance at receiving a scholarship offer. We tapped on the door of NSR’s VP of Public Relations and former Ole Miss football player, and one of NSR’s most successful scouts ever, … Read more
Online recruiting services don’t do these sorts of things. After all, they are online. National Scouting Report does because we are the world’s oldest and most respected scouting organization. National Scouting Report scouts from across America are gathered this week (Dec. 5-9) at the National Fastpitch Coaches Association convention in New Orleans to meet and speak with … Read more
Want to be popular? Tell college volleyball coaches you work with a sophomore who touches 10’1″. The high 9’s would warrant 30 seconds of their time, but 10’1″? You will have their full attention for as long as you want it. When a bunch of coaches get wind that there’s an Ohio kid whose head is over the net when … Read more
Hannah Towne had given up on scouting services! Then she met Sheila Thiery, a real life college scout for NSR. National Scouting Report is a college scouting and recruiting organization. Towne, a very talented volleyball player from Rochester, Indiana, was enrolled by her parents with a telemarketing scouting service, but something was awry – nothing … Read more
Frost on the grass. Jackets on. Breath visible. Must be time for baseball. It’s early November on the campus of Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina and National Scouting Report prospects, along with a handful of other prospects, are waiting for the frost to dissipate so they can stretch and warm up. While the day … Read more
Connections can only take you but so far in today’s recruiting environment. No one knows that truth better than Marty Hurney. See, few people on the American sports scene have the depth of football connections Hurney enjoys. It would not be much of a stretch to say he knows nearly every college and pro head football … Read more
NSR scouts see it in the eyes of nearly every prospect’s parents. We call it Sudden Panic Syndrome, or SPS, and it’s not pretty. And when it slams into parents like a 40-mile-an-hour head-on collision, everything in their world comes to an abrupt halt. Sudden Panic Syndrome is that moment when parents are suddenly, without … Read more
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
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
