{"id":9491,"date":"2016-02-18T04:30:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T10:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/?p=9491"},"modified":"2016-02-16T13:33:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:33:11","slug":"want-to-play-college-sports-odds-are-stacked-against-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/want-to-play-college-sports-odds-are-stacked-against-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to play college sports? Odds are stacked against you"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former NSR football prospect Hines Ward, an All-SEC wide receiver at the University of Georgia in the 1990s, was among the 1.8 percent of high school boys to play at the NCAA Division I level.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Want to play college sports?<\/p>\n

Good luck!<\/p>\n

Your chances are better of earning straight A\u2019s.<\/p>\n

College recruiting is a numbers game. There are far more qualified high school student-athletes than there are college roster spots, let alone athletic scholarships. The odds are stacked against you.<\/p>\n

As a high school student-athlete hoping to play at the college level, here\u2019s what you\u2019re facing:<\/p>\n

7,500,000:<\/strong> High school student-athletes in the U.S.<\/p>\n

1,875,000:<\/strong> High school senior athletes.<\/p>\n

460,000:<\/strong> NCAA student-athletes.<\/p>\n

112,500:<\/strong> NCAA freshman roster spots.<\/p>\n

6.0:<\/strong> Percent of high school athletes who will play in college.<\/p>\n

2.2:<\/strong> Percent of high school girls who will play NCAA Division I sports and Division III sports.<\/p>\n

2.1:<\/strong> Percent of high school boys who will play Division III sports.<\/p>\n

2.0:<\/strong> Percent of high school athletes who will receive athletic scholarships.<\/p>\n

1.8:<\/strong> Percent of high school boys who will play Division I sports.<\/p>\n

1.3:<\/strong> Percent of high school boys who will play Division II sports.<\/p>\n

1.2:<\/strong> Percent of high school girls who will play Division II sports.<\/p>\n

1.0:<\/strong> Percent of high school athletes who will receive \u201cfull rides.\u201d<\/p>\n

0.5:<\/strong> Percent of high school athletes who will compete in the Power 5 conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 12 and SEC).<\/p>\n

0.1:<\/strong> Percent of high school athletes who will become professional athletes.<\/p>\n

\"Former<\/a>
Former NSR softball prospect Amber Flores, two-time Big 12 Player of the Year at Oklahoma University (2009, 2010), was among the 2.2 percent of high school girls to play Division I.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Want to beat the odds? Who wouldn’t?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why so many high school athletes have turned to National Scouting Report, the world\u2019s oldest and largest college recruiting organization. With its 95-percent success rate helping qualified prospects receive college offers, NSR has consistently defied the odds for 36 years.<\/p>\n

For a free athletic evaluation, contact your nearest NSR scout<\/a> or fill out a scouting request form<\/a> at www.nsr-inc.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Want to play college sports? Good luck! Your chances are better of earning straight A\u2019s. College recruiting is a numbers game. There are far more qualified high school student-athletes than there are college roster spots, let alone athletic scholarships. The odds are stacked against you. As a high school student-athlete hoping to play at the … 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":[11,31,222,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491"}],"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=9491"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9500,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions\/9500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}