| Do you want to simplify the college admission | | | | offices. |
| process? If you are going through it I know I would | | | | My luck didn't end there. After I finished junior college a |
| hear a resounding yes. I had to go through it once, and | | | | university in Alaska found me and offered me a |
| I can tell you that it is not the easiest or most exciting | | | | full-ride college scholarship to play for them. While I feel |
| thing to do. I played sports and high school and wanted | | | | truly blessed in how my college sports career turned |
| to be recruited to play in college. However, I didn't have | | | | out, I wondered if there was an easier way to get |
| many opportunities to show the colleges who I really | | | | college scholarships or to even do a college search. I |
| was. | | | | pictured a place where students could go to find a |
| Let me tell you the whole process. A recruiter from a | | | | college and where colleges could go to find students |
| school travels around the United States visiting high | | | | or athletes in my case. |
| school state tournaments. Because my school didn't | | | | I am familiar with the recruiting process that coaches |
| have the best players around I had to rely on my | | | | go through. They go out searching the country for |
| coach and who she knew so that my name would be | | | | players that they can recruit to their team. This costs |
| the name being discussed amoung college scouts. I | | | | them time and money. Even when they don't travel, |
| was limited to be recruited by only the people who | | | | they are at home trying to find players. I remember |
| knew my coach. How cool would it have been to take | | | | helping my own coach, the year after I finished playing, |
| the power from her hands and put it into my own to | | | | fill and address envelopes to every college, university, |
| show every coach around that I was ready and willing | | | | and junior college in the country asking if they had any |
| to play my heart out for them. | | | | players available. What a waste of time, paper, and |
| Good athletes who standout have coaches who find | | | | energy. |
| them. I had to do my own search to find a college that | | | | Now, after all that here comes the exciting news. |
| was best for me. I was able to compare colleges | | | | Imagine a place where students can post highlight |
| close to home after being contacted by them. | | | | videos of them playing basketball, baseball, golf, or |
| Fortunately, my coach knew really well the coach at a | | | | whatever other sport they are involved in to be |
| junior college that was very noteworthy in the junior | | | | recruited by the college of their choice. Or imagine a |
| college atmosphere. | | | | student posting essays that he or she has written in |
| I lucked out and found a great junior college to play for, | | | | order to impress the college admissions officers. Or if |
| but even though I found a team, I still wonder what | | | | the student is musically inclined, how about imagining |
| could have happened if I had a college search tool | | | | him or her posting a breathtaking solo performance for |
| available to me or even a place on the internet where I | | | | every college in America to hear and see. Can you |
| could put my academic information and showcase my | | | | see the power?! |
| athletic abilities for coaches and college admissions | | | | |