Get it off your chest – be the first to comment on this video!
No text or picture Add-ons were added yet. How sad!
As a college coach who attends every recruiting tournament that every Division-I coach goes to, I will sit at every recruiting tournament side-by-side with the Division-I coaches and we are all looking at the same athletes. Realistically, am I going to be able to recruit that top athlete that all of us have our eye on? Probably not, unless that student athlete has an academic interest that is compatible with Franklin & Marshall college.
She wants to be a pre-med student, she wants to go pre-law, she wants to be a business major, which are our top three majors. If I have an academic advantage, that student may be attracted to my institution, but it would be the academic program that would lure her. If she were a student athlete that academically wanted to go to a top school but did not won the time commitment and the rigors of Division-I, I might be able to get that student-athlete to come to Franklin & Marshall by selling my school, my institution, and my program. It depends on the motivation behind the student-athlete.
Does she want a top Division-I program and have an emphasis on her lacrosse career, or is she a student-athlete who is looking for balance, who wants to play at a very competitive level, who wants to go to a very good academic school, and possibly she wants to go abroad, or take an internship. There were some advantages to Division-III where that is a broad-based education where athletics doesn't impact the decision to go abroad. So those opportunities are available with Division-III not so much in Division-I.
So depending on the motivation of the student-athlete, that drives her decision, either she wants to have her education paid for partially or fully from athletics scholarship for lacrosse at Division-I, or she wants to play at a top Division-III level, play very competitively but not play because she has to play.
Transcription by:
Scribe4you Transcription Services