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 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
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
As the National Director of Softball who has has scouted some of the best talent coast to coast, I can tell you that what Coach Mo is telling you in this video is 100 percent correct. From a scouting standpoint, one of the first things I’m evaluating on a pitcher is her leg drive. … Read more
Former National Scouting Report football prospect Landry Jones, backup quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, is expected to make his first start of the season Sunday against Tom Brady and the visiting New England Patriots. Jones, a four-year NFL veteran, likely will start in place of veteran Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who underwent successful arthroscopic surgery … Read more
Social media echoes a prospect’s character through words and pictures to coaches. A prospect’s chances of being recruited can, in fact, be enhanced or ruined by how they manage their social media pages. The proof comes from the day-to-day work National Scouting Report scouts do with their prospects. It is not uncommon for NSR scouts to contact … Read more
