| December 2011 Varsityedge.com Newsletter
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NEWS ON INDIVIDUAL COLLEGES
Apparently the University of Oregon paid $25,000 for a 2011 recruiting package that was comprised of a list of 140 players that graduated in 2009.
The Maryland men's and women's swimming teams and the school's women's water polo team have been informed their programs may be eliminated as part of the university's overhaul of its athletic department. Division I swimming teams has declined from 183 to 159
Iowa Wesleyan has been approved for membership in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference upon the institution’s successful completion of the NCAA exploratory year and acceptance as a provisional member of the NCAA. The Tigers, currently an NAIA institution, would begin competition during the 2013-14 academic year.
Prospective NCAA Division II member institution Young Harris is adding men’s and women’s lacrosse in 2012.
The University of Colorado is nearly complete on a new 44,000 square foot practice facility.
A new, $75 million campus housing center at the University of Oklahoma will include a dining center, computer labs, study rooms and other resources
The University of South Florida has new baseball and softball fields as well as a 3-field practice facility for football.
The University of Texas EL Paso opened their new 32 million dollar rec center. The center includes a climbing wall, basketball courts, 3 lane track, fitness center, and a synthetic court.
Whittier College is upgrading their Graham Athletic Center with the most significant construction focused on their pool.
The University of Vermont dropped it recommendation requirement down to one. Tulane University only asks for a recommendation from your guidance counselor. The College of Charleston no longer requires students to submit any recommendations.
The University at Albany is currently in the design phase for a new football stadium. The stadium, the first in a three-phase project that will also replace the track and add a synthetic turf field, will include seating for up to 24,000, as well as suites and club amenities. . .
The C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University has launched the Pioneer Spirit Campaign to raise funds for the rebuilding of its football, lacrosse and field hockey stadium. The updated stadium will feature seating for 4,500,
Sand Volleyball? Yep. To remain title IX compliant after the addition of football, Georgia State is adding women's sand volleyball. Fifteen teams play sand volleyball, according to the American Volleyball Coaches Association including Florida State, College of Charleston, Jacksonville, North Florida, UAB, Tulane, Mercer, Florida Atlantic and Florida International. The school will have 4 scholarships available...
NEWS AND NOTES
First-Year Harvard Students Stage Walk-Out of Econ Class. In a letter to economics professor Greg Mankiw, the students wrote: “We are walking out today to join a Boston-wide march protesting the corporatization of higher education as part of the global Occupy movement. Since the biased nature of Economics 10 contributes to and symbolizes the increasing economic inequality in America, we are walking out of your class today both to protest your inadequate discussion of basic economic theory and to lend our support to a movement that is changing American discourse on economic injustice.” In a response on his blog, Mankiw wrote: ”Ironically, the topic for today’s lecture is the distribution of income, including the growing gap between the top 1 percent and the bottom 99 percent. I am sorry the protesters will miss it.”
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Good news for Division 2 cross country and track and field participants. The NCAA is increasing the number of runners and teams to compete in the D2 Championship..
Let's welcome the new D3 Southern Athletic Association. Spanning six states, the Southern Athletic Association includes Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama, Centre College in Kentucky, Hendrix College in Arkansas, Millsaps College in Mississippi, Oglethorpe University and Berry College in Georgia, and Rhodes College and Sewanee (the University of the South) in Tennessee.
When your scholarship really isn’t a scholarship. Andre Drummond, one of the top prep basketball players was supposed to go to prep school. But his change of heart cost another college basketball player his scholarship. At the last minute, Drummond decided he wanted to attend Uconn this year. The problem was, Uconn didn’t have any available scholarships (partly because the team had scholarships removed for recruiting violations). Redshirt freshman Michael Bradley “gave up” his scholarship and became a walk-on receiving financial aid. Bradely redshirted last year because the Huskies were deep at the power-forward position.
JUNIOR COLLEGE RECRUITING
If you are interested in attending Junior College in the State of Mississippi, there are some recruiting rules changes you should be aware about. Go To Article
Apprehensive by the number of international athletes competing, the National Junior College Athletic Association passed a rule that restricts the number of international athletes competing in intercollegiate sports. The new law limits teams to a specific percentage of international players they can re-cruit. It is to go into effect August 2012. Originally, teams were allowed to award 25 percent of their scholarship money to international athletes but had no limit on the number of foreign athletes that could compete.
ARTICLES
While The Making of a Student-Athletes touches on many different recruiting topics, two main themes of the book are being extremely proactive and making the recruiting process a personal process. This articles touches on those topics and many more. Go To Article
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