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Selection of University as an international student athlete

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:31:29 +0000

Location
It is important to consider in what location your school is in. The United States is a big country and differs a lot from place to place. For example rent and cost of living is usually more expensive in the big cities on the east coast or west coast. While the Midwest and South is less expensive to live in.

Academics

Remember to check if the school you are interested in attending have your degree and how good your program is. A good idea could be to check out the academic ranking (which we will put on our blog) of your school.

Athletic Program

It’s also wise to check out the universities team, what level they are, how many players they have and etc. Try to go to the schools website to check out their athletic facilities. It’s important that you like what you see because you will hopefully be spending 4 years in that school to get your degree.

Athletic Scholarship

Make sure you find out how much you have to pay every semester before you attend the school! If you will have to pay rent and housing ask how much the rent is in the schools are so you can calculate your costs prior attending. It’s not always wise to choose the school that is giving you the most in athletic scholarship. Sometimes it’s better to pay a little and have a better college experience.

So the general point is making sure you done proper research before choosing your school. There is nothing worse than going to a school and then realizing that you have made a mistake. So preparation is the key!

If you have any questions regarding college athletics or athletic scholarships feel free to join our college sports recruiting forum and ask your question

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.

Guest Writer on college and sports

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:58:29 +0000

ICAC invites other athletes, counselors, coaches, students, teachers, and other organizations to write and share their experiences of College Athletics and Education. Once and while we will have guest writers share their experiences with our readers. We will start of tomorrow by presenting an article of a young athletes experience play college tennis. If you are interested in writing an article on the topic of education or college sports do not hesitate to contact us.

For our freshmen who are about to enter college athletics with the help with ICAC, it’s been a pleasure assisting you all in these process and we wish you all the best of your first year in college in the U.S. And remember if you guys have any questions in the future our door is always open.

Good Luck!

ICAC Team

College sports in the U.S.

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:42:08 +0000

We have now gone over the major college sports in our blog. But there are more sports available in college athletics that may not be known internationally. We will now go over and provide general information about these sports.

Fencing is a sport that is included in NCAA. Universities with a fencing team have around 4.5 scholarships for the Men’s team and 5 for the women’s teams. For more information about fencing scholarships contact ICAC or check out resources at the end of this article.

Other unknown college sport internationally is rifle, wrestling, lacrosse, rowing and many other sports.

Contact ICAC if you want to know if your sport is offered in college athletics!