{"id":568,"date":"2010-06-11T14:17:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/?p=568"},"modified":"2010-06-11T14:17:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:17:34","slug":"morgan-cary-sees-dream-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/morgan-cary-sees-dream-come-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Cary Sees Dream Come True"},"content":{"rendered":"

With No College Options in Sight, Cary Family Turned to NSR<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Midway into her senior year, Morgan had heard from no coaches.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Morgan Cary<\/a> <\/strong>is the quintessential NSR<\/strong> high school prospect, but with a twist, or a twist and a half.\u00a0 Like thousands of other high school seniors, Morgan wanted to play college sports.\u00a0 And as a promising young athlete, Morgan had set her sights on doing something many prep athletes dream of but few accomplish \u2013 securing a college athletic scholarship.<\/p>\n

There was a problem, though.\u00a0 Even though Morgan was an accomplished three-sport athlete at The Villages High School<\/strong> <\/a>in The Villages, Florida, she had received no interest from college coaches midway through her senior year.\u00a0 Panic had set in.\u00a0 Would her dreams, the dreams of a solid high school athlete, be lost because no college coaches knew she even existed, much less was an excellent prospect?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then one night something happened which changed Morgan\u2019s life.\u00a0 Sean Kitchen<\/strong>, an NSR <\/strong>scout from Ocala, walked into the gymnasium where Morgan was playing volleyball.\u00a0 He was at once drawn to Morgan as the best player on the court.\u00a0 Her athleticism, competitive drive and attitude stood out from the other players.\u00a0 Following the match, Sean approached Morgan and began to ask her questions about her athletic future.\u00a0 To his surprise, Morgan had no athletic future to speak of.\u00a0 With 14 varsity letters to her credit, here was an athlete whose career was coming to a close as her dreams and goals were apparently fading away day-by-day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

After seeing the passion and hope in Morgan\u2019s eyes, Sean spoke to her parents and set up an appointment the following <\/a>Friday evening to interview Morgan and to discover if she, indeed, qualified as a college student-athlete.\u00a0 Sitting around the family pool on a warm, Florida, November evening, Sean explained to the Cary\u2019s their predicament.\u00a0 Morgan would be getting into the recruiting mix very late.\u00a0 But, if they worked hard and fast to make her profile and video available to coaches ASAP, then she stood a chance of being noticed, evaluated and recruited.\u00a0 The Cary family took the plunge.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to December, a month later.\u00a0 With Morgan\u2019s profile and video posted on NSR\u2019s<\/strong> Web site, the interest by\u00a0college coaches about Morgan began to pour in.\u00a0 And pour is a mild description.\u00a0 In the month of December, buoyed by excellent volleyball workout footage, Morgan heard from an incredible 80 college coaches.\u00a0 With Sean advising the family regularly, Morgan began to make visits, unofficial and official, to colleges up and down the East Coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then, magic happened as it sometimes does with prospects, campuses and coaches.\u00a0 Morgan found her home away from home at Elizabeth City State University <\/a><\/strong>in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.\u00a0 The school simply felt right in every way.<\/p>\n

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In an amazing turnaround, Morgan heard from 170 coaches.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Still, by January Morgan was experiencing something akin to the remarkable as questionnaires, emails and phone calls from coaches increased to a level the Cary family could hardly believe.\u00a0 Although Morgan had found her dream school in ECSU, she continued to receive offers, more than 15 in all.\u00a0 Some were full ride offers, some were partials, but regardless of the final tally, Morgan was going through in four short months what most prospects can only imagine in an entire high school career.\u00a0 She had received interest from 170 college volleyball coaches by springtime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After Morgan had formally accepted and signed the ECSU offer, she had a graduation party at her home.\u00a0 And, of<\/a> course, Sean Kitchens was invited.\u00a0 But as he was leaving to go to the celebration, Sean found that there was a message left on his home phone answering machine from the Cary family which said, \u201cSean, please don\u2019t bring a gift.\u00a0 You have given Morgan something no gift can replace \u2013 a college education.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With No College Options in Sight, Cary Family Turned to NSR Morgan Cary is the quintessential NSR high school prospect, but with a twist, or a twist and a half.\u00a0 Like thousands of other high school seniors, Morgan wanted to play college sports.\u00a0 And as a promising young athlete, Morgan had set her sights on … 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\/568"}],"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=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}