Why your academics are so important?

 

 

Dear Student Athlete:

 

You got it.  The most important part of this process is your academics (GPA/SAT/ACT/education).  Remember, you have a better chance of being successful in life with a college education then you do becoming a professional athlete so every test score is a vital piece of your future success.   Use your athletic talent as a mere tool to help you strive for that college education.  College coaches love recruiting student-athletes with good grades.  If your grades are high enough then The Highlight Reel, Inc. can assist you in receiving more scholarship money/academic scholarships or partial scholarship based on academics alone, this of course does not include any financial aid or athletic scholarships that may be available to you as a student-athlete.  We will work hand in hand with you as the parent and student-athlete as well as the school's financial aid and admissions office. The first thing The Highlight Reel does, would be to evaluate a student athlete's 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 even then, the financial advisors at The Highlight Reel will work with them to get as much money as possible.  Then we try to boost this with a partial athletic scholarship if no full athletic scholarship is provided.  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 a student qualifies for an exempted academic scholarship then most of the time that money does not count against the total athletics department budget. Now you can see why this is so attractive to a college coach. College coaches can't take chances with borderline student-athletes anymore because their athletic program will be penalized for their athlete's 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.  Good grades are essential to your chances of being recruited and playing a college sport. Coaches need to be able to make up a "package" that you will find attractive and has the least impact on the college athletic budget.

 

Warm Regards,

 

 

Dominick Ferraro, President and CEO

2607 Woodruff Road, Suite-227

Simpsonville, South Carolina 29681

 

E-mail: dferraro@sportshlr,.com

Telephone: 646.340.2052