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Sports Scholarship Recruiting Timeline

Sports Scholarship Recruiting Timeline

Ideally, you should start the scholarship recruiting process very early on.  The earlier you start, the more time you will have to make any changes which will affect your eligibility (such as improving your grades) and negotiate scholarships with coaches.   If you are starting later than freshman or sophomore year, you can still use these Read the full article

What Are Athletic Recruiting Services and Do You Really Need Them?

What Are Athletic Recruiting Services and Do You Really Need Them?

There are currently 1,845 colleges and universities in the United States, as well as over 1,600 2-year institutions. Most of these colleges and universities sponsor some sort of sports scholarship. As a student athlete looking for an athletic scholarship, it can be quite overwhelming! That is where athletic recruiting services come in.

What You Need to Know About Football Trials

What You Need to Know About Football Trials

Football trials used to be the way that clubs and teams found their talent. However, trials or talent days, are becoming increasingly rare. Clubs and teams now rely on a network of scouts to find talent. They often have contacts with schools and managers of local teams who keep them informed about promising talent. For Read the full article

How to Get Noticed by College Soccer Scouts

How to Get Noticed by College Soccer Scouts

You are a skilled young soccer player (or what we call football in the UK) and you dream of playing as a student athlete at a top American university. Sorry to break it to you but, unless you become a viral sensation online, college soccer scouts aren’t going to find you. They don’t even know Read the full article

How to Apply for a Sports Scholarship in the USA

How to Apply for a Sports Scholarship in the USA

There are over 1,000 NCAA institutions and they give out about $1 billion in sports scholarships each year. With so many sports scholarships available, you might think your chances of getting one are pretty good. But consider that only 2% of American high school athletes and even fewer international athletes get an NCAA scholarship. You Read the full article

How to Prepare for a Football (Soccer) Assessment

How to Prepare for a Football (Soccer) Assessment

If you want to get a football scholarship (aka soccer in the US), then one of the first things you will need to do is schedule a football assessment. Even if you’ve played in important Youth Cup Finals in front of a stadium full of fans, it can still be scary to get a formal Read the full article

How good do I need to be for football scholarship?

How good do I need to be for football scholarship?

Almost every football player, no matter at what level, has asked themselves if they were good enough at some point. It’s no surprise that the vast majority of those considering a football scholarship; ask how good they have to be to get one. It’s a legitimate question, and we’re going to try to answer it.

Sports Scholarships in the US

Sports Scholarships in the US

UK students have the opportunity to attend top universities and colleges to study their preferred topics, provided they put in the effort and get the required grades. There are many wonderful educational facilities all over the country offering fantastic courses that will help the student to progress towards their chosen career path. However, students in Read the full article

5 Things You Need to Know About Athletic Scholarships

5 Things You Need to Know About Athletic Scholarships

All parents would like to think that they have the next Dan Marino or Zinedine Zidane in their house. However,it is easy to be carried away when someone’s offspring wins a local tournament. Athletic scholarships are a possibility for young sports stars, but they are not easy to get and they aren’t the golden ticket Read the full article

Summer match in Scotland

Summer match in Scotland

On Saturday United Sports USA staff came back to the Excelsior Stadium to hold the summer match for clients and new applicants who are looking to leave to United States in 2015 or 2016. The guest team Hamilton Academical Inverclyde FC was a challenging opposition that have not given a moment to relax and won Read the full article

Female Golfer Signs for United Sports USA

Female Golfer Signs for United Sports USA

The latest golfer to begin her journey on becoming a student athlete in the United States was young Chloe Thackery from Essex, England. Chloe accompanied by her mum Joanne flew in from London to Glasgow yesterday to meet United Sports USA staff. Following the initial conversation it was clear to see that Chloe was not Read the full article