{"id":5057,"date":"2011-10-11T07:47:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T13:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=5057"},"modified":"2011-10-11T07:47:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T13:47:20","slug":"to-earn-an-athletic-scholarship-you-must-declare-war-on-mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/to-earn-an-athletic-scholarship-you-must-declare-war-on-mediocrity\/","title":{"rendered":"To Earn an Athletic Scholarship, You Must Declare War On Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your Will to Succeed\u00a0Faces a\u00a0Daily Battle with the Gravitational Pull of Being Average <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Each day offers student-athletes like Brett Smith the opportunity to be excellent or average. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The prep prospects that excel in college are those who create an uncompromising environment of success while still in high school.\u00a0 They establish a pattern which carries them through the dog days of being a college freshman and into a solid college career.\u00a0 Every day these special student-athletes declare war on mediocrity which does its best to worm its way into their thinking.\u00a0 The best of the best simply will not allow mediocrity to win.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Whether the battle comes in the form of dragging yourself out of bed for early morning workouts, doing extra homework reading to the dim lights on the team bus, or spending extra time honing your skills when everyone else has gone home, every student-athlete has tough choices to reach their goal of playing college sports.\u00a0 There are no shortcuts.\u00a0 And those who choose the easy way eventually see their fortunes take a nose dive into the world of the mediocre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mental diligence is the key element which differentiates winners from losers.\u00a0 Having the will to do what others cannot or will not do is the underpinning of those who develop in high school into the most desired prospects for college coaches.\u00a0 It can be seen in an athlete’s eyes, practice habits, academic test scores, character and in the friends they choose to surround themselves with.\u00a0 It is something inside which can catapult the average athlete past the so-called stars whose lack of work ethic eventually erode their natural talent.\u00a0 It’s what makes responsible men and women out of boys and girls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Every day offers these challenges.\u00a0 Moment by moment, young student-athletes encounter the pull of mediocrity.\u00a0 Digging deeply to discover your true potential by making decisions which will put yourself in the position to earn a scholarship offer is the penultimate war.\u00a0 How badly do you really want to earn success?\u00a0 How far will you step toward the edge of your limits to achieve your goals?\u00a0 It’s all there, waiting for you to grasp, if you can find it within yourself to continually fight off the temptation to be average, to be mediocre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your Will to Succeed\u00a0Faces a\u00a0Daily 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.\u00a0 They establish a pattern which carries them through the dog days of being a college freshman and into a solid college … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}