The Student Athlete’s Guide to Getting Recruited is the definitive guide for all high school students that dream of playing college sports. This guide is very useful to both female and male student athletes and their parents, and addresses how to get recruited by top colleges and universities. Additionally, it offers vital tips on how to excel academically in both high school and college to ensure a successful career as a student-athlete, and dispels a multitude of myths about how athletic scholarships are awarded and who gets them.

This guidebook offers information provided by a range of high school and college counselors, athletic trainers, and successful college sports coaches from private and public college universities. Each chapter uses student athletes as case studies and walks the reader through their experiences with scholarships and financial aid, recruiting rules, recruiting practices, college interviews and visitations, sports training and healthy lifestyles, transitioning from high school to college, and the rigors and realities of being a student athlete.

The guidebook provides tips for understanding the complicated NCAA recruiting rules and information on what colleges really want from athletes in their programs.

The appendix includes athletic, financial and educational resource and college coaches’ websites.