Combining athletic and academic scholarships

they can get you to college and help you play your sport

College coaches love recruiting student-athletes with good grades and it's easy to see why.

If your grades are high enough then the coach can get you an exempted academic scholarship or partial scholarship.

College coaches work hand in hand with the school's financial aid office. The first thing a coach does is see evaluate a athletes grades and circumstances to see if any other form of financial aid is available. The college financial aid office will decide what "needs based aid" the athlete can get and then try to boost this with a partial athletic scholarship.

There are a lot more academic funds available than athletic scholarships. Athletes have to work hard in school and achieve good grades.

What you need to understand, and this is important for parents to realize as well as the athlete is that if qualify for an exempted academic scholarship then that money does not count against the total athletics department budget. You can see why this is so attractive to the coach. You need to meet one or more of the following criteria to qualify. (this varies from school to school ).

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College coaches can't take chances with borderline student-athletes anymore, because their athletic program will be penalized for their athletes' poor performance in the classroom. The team will actually lose scholarships! The National Collegiate Athletic Association now insists on certain academic standards so you have to keep your grades up and do well on the SATs.

WITHOUT GOOD TEST SCORES AND GRADES YOU MIGHT NOT EVEN MAKE IT TO COLLEGE LET ALONE EVEN QUALIFY FOR ATHLETIC FINANCIAL AID

Good grades are vital to your chances of being recruited and playing college sport. Coaches need to be able to make up a "package" that you will find attractive and has least impact on the college athletic budget.

Most American high schools and colleges have organized cheerleading squads made up solely of students. According to the National Federation of High School Athletic Associations, nearly 20 states in the USA now consider cheerleading to be a sport.

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