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College Sports Divisions

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:44:34 +0000

In this post we are going to go over how college sports in the U.S. are organized and the different divisions.

Organizations & Divisions
Depending on what sport you exercise the season looks different. What is common is that the schools belong to different conferences and region. You can compare it with your cities and counties. If you win the Conference’s your team goes on to Regional’s. If you win the Regional you move on to Nationals. The Nationals has the very best teams / athletes to make up about who are best in the country. It is an incredibly rewarding system and it gives athletes a good chance to get to travel around and see more of the United States.

NCAA
Pronounced “NC-Double-A” and stands for National Collegiate Athletic Association. The NCAA includes more than 1280 different institutions. There are three divisions: l, ll and lll. Which division of a school belonging is not determined for how good it is sporting. It is rather the size of the school and how many sports the school sponsors. Accordance with the rules in NCAA sports scholarship is offered only in the division l and ll. If you want to go to a Division lll school there is usually other options for sports scholarship as academic scholarship called grants.

Eligibility Center
You may not have been a professional to play sports in college in the United States. Anyone who wants to play sports in the NCAA div l and ll have to go through the Eligibility Center which, in turn, examines whether you were a professional in your home country.

NAIA
With over 290 institutions of NAIA is composed of many smaller and private schools. You may not have been a professional in order to participate in sports. NAIA has no equivalent to “Clearing House” which makes the admission process for these schools more flexible.

Many of NAIA schools can match the good schools from the NCAA. The main difference is that the rules of NAIA may differ widely in level and conditions.

NJCAA

Junior College is a great option for international athletes who are not eligible for a 4 year college. Junior College is only a 2 year institutions after the 2 years, the athlete will transfer to 4 year University.

Jimmy Jumps attacks the World Cup Trophy

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:36:06 +0000

Just wanted to share this with our readers. Jimmy Jumps tries to put his hat on the World Cup trophy during the World Cup Final 2010.

Welcome to the ICAC Blog

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:40:44 +0000

ICAC is proud to announce that we will be starting an educational blog. This blog will be about our core topic, college athletic recruiting and athletic scholarships. We will provide insights and information on different college sports and how to obtain an athletic scholarship. We will also invite other student athletes to write about their experience in college athletics and to give advice to future student athletes.

Our goal is for our readers to interact with the articles they are reading with comments and posting on the forum and to further discuss their questions. We will also be covering tips in taking SAT and TOEFL and other essential recruiting information.

We will kick off the blog next week with going over all the sports that offer sport scholarships in American Universities. We are going to go over a brand new sport every 2 days and we will start off with discussing Track & Field scholarships on Monday.

Have a great weekend and see you back next week,

ICAC Team