It's almost that time again.....time for club ball teams to start balling like mad, and for college coaches to watch 10 hours of games per day while managing to stay awake and take good notes.The schedule:July 6-12, evaluation periodJuly 13-22, dead periodJuly 23-29, evaluation periodJuly 30-31, … [Read more...]
What are the Title IX Implications of USC’s 4-Year Scholarship Plan?
On Monday, University of Southern California announced that it will offer four-year scholarships to all scholarship athletes in football, men's basketball, and women's basketball. This modifies the university's existing practice of offering all scholarships on a one-year, renewable … [Read more...]
Advice for High School Athletes on the College Selection Process from Olympian Lashinda Demus
I started receiving letters from colleges my freshman year in high school. There was even one coach that called me early out of excitement, and then out of honesty turned themselves in. Once my junior year came around and it became legal to call me, the calls were pretty steady. I took three … [Read more...]
Top Recruit A’ja Wilson Commits To South Carolina
The No. 1 girl’s prospect in the nation, A’ja Wilson, announced Wednesday she will play college basketball at South Carolina. The 6-5 forward from Hopkins, SC, made the announcement live on ESPNU, where she committed to coach Dawn Staley and her hometown Gamecocks in front of a … [Read more...]
Is it Worth It:
Several weeks ago Missy Franklin discussed her experience as a freshman swimmer at Berkley. Nothing earth shattering, right? Not quite. Franklin isn’t just any old freshman swimmer, she’s the current world record holder in the 200m backstroke, a 4-time Olympic gold … [Read more...]
Te’a Cooper John Lucas Camp Highlights (VIDEO)
Earlier this month at the John Lucas 40/40 Camp, top recruit Te’a Cooper was locking up on defense, scoring from anywhere and threading the needle for assists. It’s all in a day’s work for the 5-8 point guard, who averaged 18.5 points, 5 assists and 4.3 steals for McEachern (GA) HS … [Read more...]
5 Deal-Breakers For Hockey Scouts
After spending the weekend in Boston coaching players who aspire to play hockey at the college hockey level and speaking with the scouts who were narrowing down their shortlists of players who they are interested in, I realized how much the little details of the game make a big difference. If you … [Read more...]
My Athlete life by @emilyazevedo
My life as an athlete has been a small amount of luck, a hell of a lot of hard work and an indefinite amount of sacrifice. I wish I could say that an Olympic athlete’s life is as glamorous as society would assume, but our jobs are a bit unorthodox and often times leave us with no … [Read more...]
Women’s college basketball recruiting - The Eighty Percent Rule
If there's any area of basketball that might be impervious to any kind of stat-based analysis, it's high school basketball. Pro basketball is the least impervious - most teams are on an equal footing. College basketball is a bit more difficult, with the increasing unlikeliness that the best teams … [Read more...]