The college scholarship has become the dream for many high school athletes. Rancho High softball player Gianna Carosone and her family may have the blueprint for reaching it.
Recruiting
Recruiting rankings have existed in various forms for decades, but exploded in popularity after Seattle-area entrepreneur James Heckman launched an internet startup called RivalsNet in 1997.
Most UNLV coaches would like to make Southern Nevada athletes a key part of their recruiting efforts, but it’s not always so easy. Many are wooed by top programs and eager to experience life elsewhere.
Nevada’s two Division I universities — UNLV and UNR — offer the NCAA maximum number of scholarships in each sport they field. And a full ride for four years of college is like hitting a jackpot.
Title IX, which was enacted in 1972, bans sex discrimination in any educational program receiving federal funding.
Countless college-bound student-athletes who can’t meet the NCAA’s new, tougher initial eligibility requirements that took effect Aug. 1 will be on the sidelines this year.
Centennial senior Troy Brown Jr. has been drawing interest from college basketball coaches since his freshman season, making for a hectic and longer-than-normal recruiting process.
Stetson Stallworth and JD Reynolds, sons of former UNLV football players, are hoping to make an impact on the NCAA Division II level.
We will attempt to traverse that daunting and at times disturbing landscape by analyzing many of the different aspects that create the recruiting culture as it exists today, where it began and how it progressed, the good and bad of it, and the highs and lows.
Understanding the rules surrounding the recruitment of high school athletes to play in college is a nearly impossible task. But just knowing what all of the terms mean is a chore of its own.
Some of the elite high school athletes aren’t signing a national letter of intent. They’re opting instead to sign a financial aid agreement, a relatively new concept that drastically favors the athlete, not the university.
Changing a sport’s national letter of intent signing date is similar to the political structure in the nation’s capital. It can be done. It has been done. But it’s a tedious process.
Bishop Gorman running back Biaggio Ali Walsh committed to play at California on Sunday.
Coronado senior forward Kennedy Koehler made an oral commitment Saturday to play basketball at UC San Diego.