A typical day for a college scout starts early in the morning, with phone calls to coaches, prospects and prospects’ parents. One of the greatest things about being an NSR college scout, getting close to prospects and their families during their road through the recruiting process. NSR scouts help their athletes any way they can, … 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
How many freshmen do you know who start on high school varsity softball teams? Not many. How many start on one of their state’s premier teams? Even fewer. Well, meet Maura Grace Dickens. Mike Ewing is not your run-of-the-mill softball scout. Before being named national baseball director for National Scouting Report, Ewing cut his teeth as … Read more
A sweet hitting stroke is unmistakable when you see it. A softball player steps into the batter’s box and when the bat is released, the entire motion appears effortless. The plane of the bat slides beautifully through the strike zone. There are no wasted motions. No hitches. No hesitation. The hands, head, shoulders and legs work … Read more
Two months ago, Dylan Autenrieth was an outstanding 2016 National Scouting Report football prospect at North Paulding High School in Dallas, Ga. Today, he is an early enrollee at North Carolina State. Mike Ewing, NSR’s area director in North Georgia, learned about Autenrieth through a friend. After Autenrieth’s junior football season, Ewing went to see him … Read more
Imagine you are playing in a high school football game on a chilly, fall Friday night. You are a defensive end. You have been preparing to hit somebody all week in practice. When the offensive huddle breaks, you notice the player lined up across from you is big — very big — at 6 feet … Read more
C.J. Windham is like so many National Scouting Report prospects. He plays multiple sports in high school — football and baseball — and loves them both. Making the decision to pursue a college football scholarship was a difficult one for the 6-foot-3 wide receiver from McEachern High School in Powder Springs, Ga, a northern suburb of Atlanta. … Read more
Jack Chambers is the total package. A 6-foot-4 junior shooting guard for the Oconee High School basketball team in Dublin, Ga., Chambers averaged more than 10 points per game last season while hitting 53 percent from the floor and 40 percent from beyond the arc. He also averaged seven rebounds, two assists and one block … Read more
All the hard work put in by National Scouting Report scouts for many of their prospects comes to an end this week during the NCAA early signing period. NSR scouts across America and abroad have anticipated this week for as long as four years. For others, it has been as little as a few months. … Read more
