Easiest sports to get D1 scholarship offer

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Wonder what sport the OP chose.

Along those lines, it is a bad idea to specialize too early except in a few sports. Yes, play the sport but sample others.

Having a team =/= having scholarships.

Ok Whoever this is really knows nothing and probably is very lazy and does nothing because if you actually ran track. You would know that the competition is not weaker from many sports we play today its actually more competitive.Second its not a joke because i bust my ass out there everyday AND THE PAIN AND STRUGGLE we go through is waaayyyy more intense than any sport you could imagine.So dont comment nonsense if you never even ran track or even did any kind of intense training bud.thanks happy Thanksgiving

I'd say lacrosse where a 160 lb. wimp named Trevor or Dylan that runs 5.2 for the 40 is considered super fast.

+1 on Women's Golf. Many colleges actually sit on scholarships because they actually cannot find enough women to give them to. True Story.

If male, teach them how to deep snap. Every football team needs a reliable deep snapper.

Yes, women's golf but you missed one. Women's field hockey. More HSs in the US have girl's wrestling than FH and so even the sucky players get to play in college.

Charley Knighton wrote:

I'd say lacrosse where a 160 lb. wimp named Trevor or Dylan that runs 5.2 for the 40 is considered super fast.

Lacrosse requires significantly more athleticism than simple sprint speed. If Trevor or Dylan can score and dish off under pressure or in transition, he's going to be recruited. Very few D-I men's programs either, bud.

You're close wrote:

Women's field hockey. More HSs in the US have girl's wrestling than FH

Untrue.

Lacrosse most definitley

thejeff wrote:

+1 on Women's Golf. Many colleges actually sit on scholarships because they actually cannot find enough women to give them to. True Story.

If male, teach them how to deep snap. Every football team needs a reliable deep snapper.

...and a backup. It won't last long though as long snapping camps have begun to spring up drawing attention to the phenomenon. This leads to it being a non scholarship position. In general terms, the comments that football is in any way the easiest sport to get a Div I scholarship is simply nuts. I live in a HS football hotbed and there aren't that many Div I scholarship players in the area compared to population and number of schools.

Swimming and diving is probably up there.

1. Academic scholarship is the easiest.

Also D1 running works out for a few but not the majority. These 17-18 year olds all want to sign a D1 scholarship so they can wear their D1 shirt at their HS the last 5 months of school. The reality, they signed for peanuts. They run their freshmen year (usually 2 meets unattached) and start to realize running is a full time job and they are getting peanuts in return, They then realize they could get a part time job and make more than what their scholarship is worth and it is a lot easier work. On a D1 roster, you will see 12 fresh / 10 Soph / 4 Jr. and maybe 2 Sr. - that is the reality of D1 running for most - not all. But, hey, enjoy your t'shirt and peanuts and your parents can brag that you signed with ...... Do I sound bitter? I see it all the time, talented runners who run 1,2 years only at a D1 school -

Goal Time wrote:

You're close wrote:

Women's field hockey. More HSs in the US have girl's wrestling than FH

Untrue.

http://www.nfhs.org/ParticipationStatics/PDF/2014-15_Participation_Survey_Results.pdf

1806 schools have girls wrestling

1753 schools have girls FH

That comes straight from your link dumba$$

This.....dead on.

Your son or daughter could play tennis every day from age 5 and there's still not a good chance they will play D1 or even D2. Tennis is THE hardest sport to get a scholarship in. I would suggest a primarily American sport like basketball. Because of this, by the time they're 18 they won't have to compete for 4.5 half scholarships from people around the globe.

trackys wrote:

Teach your kid the decathlon. Not many people do it- especially in high school. Early experience means big points down the road and colleges know that. Trust me. Find a trainer nearby and get him personal lessons. Where are you from?

Still need to be a sub-49 400m runner and sub-14.5 110m high hurdler. Maybe just tell your son to train to race sub-3:50 1500m.

Maybe I'm biased, but if you have natural talent, I'd say Cross Country. I got a DI full-ride running about 20 miles/week in high school. Spent most of my time working out and studying.

UNH wrote:

Here are a few:

Rowing team at Indiana and Iowa Universities.

Female half miler. Any warm blooded girl in high school that can run under 2:20 gets offers.

Plenty of D1 schools that are sucky at some sports.

Try Central Connecticut. D1 in track and xc. Maybe, just maybe one runner a year under 26 min for 5 miles. Maybe.

How about University of North Dakota, South Dakota, or Montana ...anything?

You said it perfectly. You know what's up.

Women's rowing. At my power 5 school they were literally recruiting at freshman orientation to students who had never rowed before because they had extra scholarships to use up.

There are some really good female runners. Some.

Most who think they are really good are just mediocre: racing talent that is bad. Many of these girls will start getting calls next week. Lots of calls for girls who haven't even broken 18min yet for 5k on a flat course. That's pretty easy to do if you are an in-shape striding suburbanite with good leg turnover.

So good luck with all those Div.1 tel's you will be getting soon. You really don't deserve it, so be nice!