{"id":7009,"date":"2012-11-26T20:38:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T20:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsr-inc.com\/blog\/?p=7009"},"modified":"2012-11-26T20:38:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T20:38:44","slug":"putting-in-on-the-line-today-the-only-day-that-counts-for-high-school-athletes-wanting-a-college-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/putting-in-on-the-line-today-the-only-day-that-counts-for-high-school-athletes-wanting-a-college-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting in on the line today, the only day that counts for high school athletes wanting a college scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few people understand the demands you encounter<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For high school athletes, it all begins and ends with what happens today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What happened yesterday, last week or last year pales in comparison to what you do today.\u00a0 As a high school student-athlete,, you are faced each day with the prospect of falling behind athletically and academically. And if you\u00a0get this key point figured out, you can survive the recruiting wars tomorrow.\u00a0 Coaches will notice and they will home in on you.<\/p>\n

No one, except you, can truly grasp the pressures which are on your shoulders, the aspiring college athlete. Even many teachers and administrators, not to mention fans and parents, are clueless as to what is on the line every day for you, the sole possessor of this\u00a0genuine, deep desire to play sports at what most likely will be the penultimate level of competition for your career.<\/p>\n

In the classroom, it is a constant battle to stay on top of reading, homework, class lectures and instructions in not one or two, but a three, four or five core course schedule. Onlookers too frequently forget the enormous time required to excel academically. Squeezing in a study moment here, working on a calculus problem there, taking in epic works of literature while riding in a noise-filled bus under dim lights, absorbing historic dates and events during halftime of another game, and\u00a0yet somehow being alert enough to construct cohesive paragraphs\u00a0or dissect grammar when\u00a0you get home from long\u00a0practices and longer games, night after night.<\/p>\n

Then there is the physical toll.\u00a0 Leaving textbooks on the bleacher or in your locker, you have to make a sudden, but sure, adjustment into a world where you are challenged to battle for the right to be on the court, the field or the track.\u00a0 It’s where focus is essential and maximum effort is demanded.\u00a0 You fight fatigue, ward off injuries, battle for your position and grind it out during drills and taxing competition.\u00a0 And this is the fun part of your day.<\/p>\n

Yet, it has to happen. Some fall the wayside, unable to withstand the stress, the pain or the work.\u00a0 And in the end, what a prep student-athlete did over his or her shoulder, yesterday that is, counts for little.\u00a0 That only allows you to be where you are at this moment.\u00a0 It’s what you do and accomplish today, this very day,\u00a0that counts. Slack off and you fall back. Lose concentration and you make mistakes.\u00a0 But, press forward, fight through it\u00a0and you may pass a competitor too tired or lazy to go those same extra steps. So really, there is no choice. You must push ahead, snuff out the distractions and consider everything unnecessary in your path as insignificant white noise. It’s the life you’ve elected. It has to be done. And the only question remaining is, Will you do it?<\/p>\n

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Few people understand the demands you encounter What happened yesterday, last week or last year pales in comparison to what you do today.\u00a0 As a high school student-athlete,, you are faced each day with the prospect of falling behind athletically and academically. And if you\u00a0get this key point figured out, you can survive the recruiting … 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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009"}],"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=7009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7015,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions\/7015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}