Sports Scholarship Blog from United Sports USA

We hear from the Florida State University Head Women's Basketball Coach about having an International player on her team.

Leonor Rodriguez is in her Junior year as a Seminole. Last summer Leonor helped lead Spain to a gold medal at the 2011 FIBA U20 European Championship. She scored nine points and grabbed five boards in 24 minutes in the championship game win over Russia. Spain went undefeated in the tournament and Rodriguez averaged 8.7 ppg, 3.8 rpg and 3.0 apg. To find out how United Sports USA athletes are getting on this year view our successes page.

We take an unusual tour of the Might Blue Devil's campus with Freshman Sean Davis and Junior Goalkeeper James Belshaw.

The Blue Devils have won twelve NCAA National Championships. The women's golf team has won five(1999, 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2007), the men's basketball team has won four (1991, 1992, 2001, and 2010), and the men's soccer (1986), women's tennis (2009), and men's lacrosse (2010) teams have won one each. For more information about soccer scholarships click here.

Michigan State Quarter Back Kirk Cousin's speaks about his experiences as a student athlete and the privilege it has been to represent Michigan State University, his family and kids with dreams that he once dreamt.

Check out our list of Scholarship Sports to see if you can achieve a scholarship in your sport.

NCAA On Campus travels to the University of Dubuque, in northeastern Iowa, to meet Michael Zweifel, who this season became the most prolific receiver in the history of the NCAA.

Zweifel has set the NCAA career reception record for all three Divisions and is just one of 16 football players nationwide to be name the National Football Foundation Scholar Athlete! Although your sport might not be the same as Michael's do you think you can set records in the NCAA? Apply online to find out.

Watch as the UNC Men's Soccer team prepares for game-day.

Junior Ben Speas turned in the goal of the tournament Sunday to provide Carolina with a 1-0 edge in the 65th minute and the Tar Heel defense stepped up in the final minutes to give UNC its second national title in school history with a 1-0 win over Charlotte at Regions Parks in Hoover, Ala. The title comes 10 years after UNC won the championship in 2001. Apply on-line today!

Laura Barito, Stevens Institute of Technology swimming and track and field student-athlete, is the 2011 NCAA Woman of the Year. Coming from a non-athletic family Laura puts her success as a college athlete down to hard work and perseverance. Congratulations Laura on all of your hard work!

Find out what coaches are looking for in our What Coaches Want section.

United Sports USA take a look into a day in the life of student athletes at Utah State University. USU's sports teams are known as the Aggies and are a part of the NCAA Division I Western Athletic Conference (WAC). The official mascot is Big Blue. The university sponsors football, men's and women's basketball, volleyball, softball, women's soccer, track and field, golf, tennis, cross country, and gymnastics. An array of club sports exist as well, and among them, the hockey and baseball teams are particularly popular with students.

Have a look at what coaches want.

2011 Stanford Women's Tennis presents: Stanford Tennis

Featuring:
Quarter Back Andrew Luck and many of Stanford's NCAA Championship teams.

For more information on Tennis Scholarships click here.

With the college regular season coming to a close, we thought this was a good time to dip into our Video Vault and pull out this gem featuring (with apologies to the DiMartino sisters) perhaps the two most successful sisters in U.S. Youth Women's National Teams history, Kristie and Samantha Mewis. Both are having extremely successful college careers so far. Kristie is a junior at NSCAA 17th-ranked Boston College and Sam is a freshman starter at NSCAA 7th-ranked UCLA.

Both played in the 2008 U-17 Women's World Cup in New Zealand and the 2010 U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany, the first sisters to play together in a World Cup for the United States -- and they've done it twice. Kristie is currently trying to work her way into the picture for the senior side while Sam has another cycle with the U-20s in front of her. Check out our Soccer Scholarship page.

 

A brief interview with U.S.A. and University of Portland forward Megan Rapinoe ahead of the U.S.'s first domestic friendly of 2006, against Sweden in Blaine, Minn. Rapinoe is also one of the only players in the University of Portland's history to get 30 goals and 25 assists in a career. Her 88 point career (30 goals, 28 assists) is the 10th in the school's history despite playing just 60 total games due to injuries.
Megan graduated in 2008 and opted to enter the Women's Professional Soccer draft.If you would like to play college soccer and study in the USA find out what coaches want and fill in an application on-line.