                                                        The Phenom is a traveling basketball team. Our mission is to provide opportunities for our athletes to succeed athletically, academically and professionally. |
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How would you like to play your favorite sport on a college team and get financial assistance for it? You can! According to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) about $1 billion worth of scholarships are awarded to around 126,000 student-athletes every year. Getting an athletic scholarship is challenging, but you can make it easier on yourself by learning the facts and making a game plan.
Myths and Facts of College Athletics Maybe you're not Michael Jordan. Still, don't give up until you know the facts about getting and keeping an athletic scholarship. - Some people think that in order to get an athletic scholarship for college, you have to be an all-star athlete in a major sport like football, basketball or baseball. But actually, there are scholarships for athletes who are good (not necessarily superstars) and who play sports like lacrosse, badminton, rowing, archery and volleyball. To make it happen, you need to plan ahead, research your options and pursue those scholarship dollars.
- Getting an athletic scholarship doesn't mean you'll cruise until you graduate. Athletic scholarships are awarded for one academic year at a time. While there are no guaranteed four-year athletic scholarships in NCAA Division I or II, one-year scholarships can be renewed annually for a maximum of five years within a six-year period.
- Don't think that if you're good enough to play in college, the colleges will contact you. There are 568,500 high school seniors playing football, men's basketball and women's basketball. Across those three sports there are roughly 24,800 positions available for college freshmen. So if you want to be eligible for an athletic scholarship, you have to show recruiters that you're the player they've been looking for.
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Sport Gift is focused on providing sports to underprivileged children throughout the world and promoting sports related community service among our youth. We work to improve the lives and give hope to impoverished children through a variety of sports programs including the collection and donation of sports equipment.
We offer community service programs to America’s youth to increase their awareness of and compassion for underprivileged children who cannot afford to play sports. Through this effort, we seek to instill in our youth a lifelong commitment to and passion for community service. Whether you’re a high school student, director of a sports league or club, teacher or youth leader, sporting goods manufacturer or retailer or just about anyone else, we have a program that allows you to help underprivileged children play sports. We invite you to check out our programs and join our effort to provide sports to needy children. Help us improve the world, one ball and one child at a time! For more information visit their website: http://www.sportsgift.org |
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