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Frequently Asked Questions

Q. When should I subscribe to College Opportunities for Student Athletes magazine and order your 23 other publications?

A. Our best advice is to begin the process early, because improvements (such as GPA/SAT, training habits, skills and injury avoidance) are easy to learn when the player is young. Later, they may be difficult or impossible to correct in time for college eligibility.

All of the information in our publications is immediately useful to parents and youth coaches.

By the time a player joins competitive teams Under 12 (5th or 6th grade), many parents can recognize sports potential in their child. Soccer is a "thinking" game requiring many decisions with little time to make those decisions. It is a natural sport for boys and girls of all sizes. As they mature, they understand game tactics/strategy and enjoy the intellectual side of soccer.

Our College Scholarships SYSTEM begins with the freshman year. Before the 8th grade would be a good time to get started making plans for your player's four years in high school. Our unique publications are designed to work together as a SYSTEM. Our Winning Your Scholarship book,The Best Camps book, The Best Tournaments book, our 18 "How To" Pamphlets and our College Scholarships SYSTEM Video all contain useful and important information that is needed throughout the student athlete's development and recruiting period.

Q. Are your publications only for soccer players?

A. No, and this is an important question. The methods described by college coaches in our publications work equally well for all student athletes. Remember ... our mission is to help kids get to the best possible college education at the least cost to themselves and their parents. A good college education now costs more than $100,000 and that cost is increasing six times faster than family income! It is no longer possible to work your way through college without debt, because part time jobs do not pay college students $25,000!

We have chosen to focus on certain sports because the increasing interest shown by colleges in those sports, means they offer the greatest opportunity for the largest number of student athletes. These emerging college varsity sports share the following characteristics:

1. They can be played by all boys or girls

2. They do not require special physical attributes (don't have to be seven feet tall, etc.)

3. They are low cost and low injury sports

4. They can earn spectator revenues via ticket sales, TV rights, endorsements, etc.

5. They help sell seats in class rooms because competitive sports are part of college life

Colleges see the emerging sports (like soccer, volleyball, lacrosse, track & field, cross country, tennis, crew ... and even golf and chess!) as contributors to their social and business objectives. Times are changing. Football is declining because 90% of all college football teams lose money. Boston University discontinued its 91 year old football program because it was losing $3 million per year. Santa Clara University discontinued football. Many others will follow.

Use our publications to create and follow your own customized family map to a good college, a place on the team and ... in many cases, a full scholarship. Our College Opportunities for Student Athlete magazine, How To pamphlets and Video are designed to be used by all student athletes. Our three books: Winning Your Scholarship, Best Soccer Camps and Best Tournaments should be used by soccer players because they primarily contain soccer reference material.

In the dark blue left margin, go to Consulting & Classes then go to Pat Grecco's CAPS to read about a Chess player we helped earn a $40,000/yr. scholarship to Columbia University ... and watch our magazine for an upcoming article on a Band Scholarship ... Our method simply works for all sports.

Q. When should I submit player profile to your Player-Coach Introduction Service?

A. Player profile information should be submitted during the 9th grade, and updated annually until graduation. Some college coaches will see your profile early in your development and will follow those players through high school. Once you are on their list as a potential recruit, and they are going to be in your area scouting junior and seniors, they will also take time to look over younger players. The University of Florida maintains a database record for every potential recruit in the entire state, throughout high school.

Many college coaches use their summer camps for very early recruiting; Our College Opportunities for Student Athletes magazine believes targeted camp participation presents an excellent opportunity for you to take control of your own recruiting process, and we devote significant resources to assisting your camp selection.

College coaches ask us to search our computer for certain players to recruit or to whom they can mail invitations to attend summer camp. Participants in our Player-Coach Introduction service, when selected in such a search, initiate their own recruiting process because their GPA, SAT/ACT, Class Rank, Email address, Phone Number and Team Levels are passed to the college coach. College coaches utilize summer camps to evaluate players and show off their campus.

Often, when a coach joins a college to start a new program or rebuild an unsuccessful one, he has moved from another state or a different division college. This means that his recruiting "pipeline" may be empty and the coach often turns to us for searches of our Player Coach Introduction file. Coaches know that our readers are all serious student athletes.

Important note: Our Player-Coach Introduction Service is an inexpensive tool designed to supplement, not replace, your recruiting program. We recommend that our proven SYSTEM of 23 publications be used throughout high school years to achieve best results.