http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Laurie+Richter Education Laurie Richter Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=371834&ca=Education Conventional wisdom in college recruiting is that the best high school student athletes won't have to pay a penny for a college education because they will get full ride scholarships to Division I athletic programs. The premise of a full ride scholarship has always been that the full cost of an educ... Sports Laurie Richter Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=357178&ca=Sports While many athletes wait until junior year to start their college search in earnest, sophomore year is the ideal time to start because an athlete who wants to be recruited for college sports has a much more complicated search than the non-athlete. A handful of high school athletes will be playin... Sports Laurie Richter Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=357181&ca=Sports For a high school athlete who wants to play college sports, junior year is the most important year. The top 5% of athletes may already know where they're going because colleges have been watching them for a while. But most good high school athletes who have the talent to play in college will have to... Sports Laurie Richter Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=357188&ca=Sports This is the second of three articles in a series about steps you need to take for college recruiting, during the all-important junior year of high school. If you aren't being heavily recruited by the second half of junior year, you need to take the initiative to get on the radar screens of coaches a... Sports Laurie Richter Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=357193&ca=Sports College recruiting activities for senior year for every student athlete will be focused primarily on applications, visits, and financial aid. But what else you do will depend on how much recruiting attention you have received. If you now have a group of schools that you're interested in and that are... Sports Laurie Richter Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=357196&ca=Sports Suppose you're a high school athlete and you know that you want to take your game to the next level. You may have gotten a few letters, a few e-mails, maybe a call or two from college coaches at nearby schools. You want to get the word out more broadly, and you're not exactly sure how to go about it... Sports Laurie Richter Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=354219&ca=Sports If you're currently a high school freshman athlete or the parent of one, you're probably not thinking very much about what you need to do to compete in college sports. Chances are you're more concerned about what you have to do to make the high school varsity team, and college seems like it's on a d... Sports Laurie Richter Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=352295&ca=Sports When contemplating strategies for getting financial help with colleges in such a dire economy, getting recruited to play college sports should be at the top of any student-athlete's list. Given that premise, in the environment that men's college football recruiting has created, girls rule, and men’s... Sports Laurie Richter Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=346957&ca=Sports Lots of recruiting articles talk about the parent’s role in recruiting but very few address what you, as a parent, will personally be experiencing throughout this. I don’t think most parents can adequately anticipate what college athletic recruiting will be like. Let me start with a story that has n...