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12Aug 2025 by admin No Comments

What to expect from your first two weeks of college?

It is that time of the year again! The new school year is about to start, which is always a very exciting time for our student-athletes, especially for those who are about to begin their freshman year. So what are the first two weeks of your first year in college like? What should you expect? What should you be afraid of? First of all, you really do not have much to worry about. Everywhere in the US, especially on college campuses, people are extremely welcoming and will help incoming students in every possible way. Plus the universities and colleges typically all organize what they call a "Welcome Week', which takes place the week before the official start of classes. During that week, the school will host numerous events and activities…

28Jul 2025 by admin No Comments

Why doing your own research is so important

The recruiting process can be very overwhelming for young student-athletes, and that could even be an understatement. Because let's face it, it is a very stressful time in a young person's life. Almost everybody will feel some sort of anxiety when it gets to the point where you are looking to pick your future college. Which school should you choose whenever you have narrowed down your search to maybe 3 or 4 colleges that all seem equally great? How do you know that your decision will be the right one? These are all questions that basically every aspiring college athlete faces at some point during the recruiting process, and even more so when you have reached the moment of making your final decision. However, this is totally normal and there…

03Jul 2025 by admin No Comments

To those who don’t believe in college tennis being the right path…

As many of you have probably noticed over the past few years, college tennis has been on the rise! More and more young tennis players, both boys and girls, choose to go down the college route in order to prepare their professional careers. While there are several reasons for this recent development, there are some very obvious reasons for the increase in the number of professionals choosing this path. The level of competition, the coaching, the facilities, and everything that comes with the overall college experience, have proven to be tough to beat. This has lead to the fact that you find more and more former college tennis players among the top 100 of the ATP and WTA rankings. In this year's Championships at Wimbledon, a new record was actually…

18Jun 2025 by admin No Comments

What is the first step when a coach shows interest in you?

As we have mentioned in some of our blog posts before, June 15 in a very important date in the recruiting calendar. The reason is that this date always means that coaches can start having direct conversations with athletes for the recruiting class that is looking to start college in two years. So in this case, that means that coaches are now officially allowed to speak with potential prospects for the class of 2027. As our current athletes have already seen over the past few days, this is a very busy time of the year for us where we always look to connect them with several coaches straight away in order to start those conversations very early so that our athletes have an advantage against their competition. We typically set…

12May 2025 by admin No Comments

NCAA Division 1 roster limits – here is why everything is up in the air at the moment!

If you live in the United States, chances are you have heard about this topic a lot these past few months. It has been all over the news, not only for college sports fans, but across all national TV channels, even the ones who do not typically cover sports. So here is what happened: In the fall of 2024, the NCAA (to the surprise of most people) all of a sudden announced some of the biggest rules changes in college sports history. They implemented what they call the "roster limit rule", which basically means that every roster at the NCAA Division 1 level, will be limited to a certain number of athletes. For example, golf teams will only be allowed to carry a maximum of 9 players, tennis teams will…

25Apr 2025 by admin No Comments

The Sports & Study USA Hot Seat (#4) – 10 questions for University of Tampa golfer Justine Bayle

Our French golfer, Justine Bayle, was kind enough to get on the Sports & Study USA Hot Seat and answer some of our questions about her experience at the University of Tampa and about the recruiting process in general. Justine is a Freshman at UT this year and has had a tremendous first season with the Spartans. Before that, Justine was a very accomplished junior golfer at the international level and was rewarded with a scholarship to play golf at one of the very best schools here in Florida. It was a huge pleasure to work with Justine and her family and to now watch her progress over here in the United States. Check out the video below for some very insightful information about college golf and about Justine's experience!…

13Apr 2025 by admin No Comments

How to earn the biggest possible scholarship?

Almost every athlete's goal is to earn the biggest possible scholarship. While this is not necessarily the best approach, most families simply do not have the funds to spend extra money on a college education. So very often, limiting the cost to the bare minimum is what families are looking for and it is something that we as a college placement agency always try to accomplish for you. Now, in order to attain that goal, there are a ton of things you can do as a student-athlete to help your cause. Since we did not want to bore you guys with a massive list of dos and don'ts, here are five tips, some of them maybe unexpected for some of you, that will maximize your scholarship opportunities: Stay Eligible: Sounds…

11Apr 2025 by admin No Comments

The Sports & Study USA Hot Seat (#3) – 10 questions for our soccer expert Timo Suerstedt

1. Where did you go to college and what sport did you play? I played college soccer at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina. 2. What made you come to college in the US? My former coach told me that there is an opportunity to go to the USA and attend a university over there. His best friend was a coach, and he connected us. He introduced me to the world of college sports in the US and ever since then I knew I wanted to come to college and play soccer over here. And it is definitely one of the best decisions I ever made. 3. What do you enjoy the most about helping young athletes with the transition of coming to college? The experience I made was so unforgettable…

04Apr 2025 by admin No Comments

The Sports & Study USA Hot Seat (#2) – 10 questions for our swimming expert Alex Knykhin

Where did you go to college and what sport did you play? I was a swimmer at Drury University in Missouri.What made you want to come to the US? I really wanted to combine my swimming and my college degree and America is the only place where your academic schedule does not interfere with your sports training. Also, American colleges have top notch infrastructure that gave me the opportunity to swim in the best pools, lift in the best gyms, and be coached by some of the best coaches in the sport.What do you enjoy the most about helping young athletes with the transition of coming to college? I enjoy helping athletes come to the United States because it was a dream of mine to come over here and I…

28Mar 2025 by admin No Comments

The Sports & Study USA Hot Seat (#1) – 10 questions for our founder Patrick Hanauer

Where did you go to college and what sport did you play? I played four years of college golf at Abilene Christian University in Texas followed by a couple of years as a college golf coach.What made you come to the college in the US? To be honest, it was a difficult decision. And I feel like most young athletes struggle with the decision and almost everyone is going to have some doubts and concerns. But in the end, after doing one year of university over in Europe, I knew I needed to come to college in the US, as it was impossible to combine university studies and golf in Europe. And when I say impossible, I really mean it. And let’s face it, who is good enough and ready…