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Pandemic Recruiting!
Recruiting Horror Story: How COVID Impacted My Recruiting Process
By Chris Russo|September 27, 2022
Come back every Tuesday for Recruiting Horror Stories™, athletes' first-hand stories on what can go wrong during the recruiting process. I have played soccer since I was three years old,...
Decisions, Decisions
Through Injury and COVID: Chicago’s Diego Solis on Choosing a School for Academics
By Finn Rice|April 14, 2022
Diego Solis is a freshman on the University of Chicago football team and he's been through a lot to make it to where he is today. Through suffering injuries and...
Softball in the Time of COVID
Athlete Interview: Kennedy Thomas on D1 Softball After COVID
By Daesha Harper|April 7, 2022
Come back every Thursday for Athlete Interviews on college recruiting and advice. Division 1 softball player Kennedy Thomas has managed to balance her life as both a student and an...
COVID Roster Saturation
Recruiting Horror Stories™: The year of COVID Redshirts and Roster Saturation
By Dylan Tehada|February 8, 2022
Out of all high school and college athletes, the COVID-19 pandemic perhaps had the biggest impact on the spring season high school seniors whose season got cut short out of...
Transfer Portal Saturation
How High School Recruits Can Compete with COVID Transfers
By Andrea Leitner|January 28, 2022
With the rise in college athletes transferring schools to use their last/extra year of eligibility, high school athletes are having to compete not only with other recruits for college roster...
Transfer Portal Saturation
How COVID Has Affected the Transfer Portal
By Andrea Leitner|January 17, 2022
COVID has proven to affect the world a tremendous amount, and continues to do so in the realm of college athletics. With the halt of college sports in the 2019...
redshirt
4 Reasons to Take Your COVID Year
By Anna Garrett|December 29, 2021
A year ago, we could have never predicted what a “COVID year” was. Today, 5th-year college athletes and “taking your COVID year” are the new normal. As a super-super senior,...
COVID and the Transfer Portal
Athlete Interview: Andrea Leitner and How COVID Affected Her Transfer Decision
By Andrea Leitner|December 23, 2021
Athlete Interviews are posted every Thursday for recruiting advice, what to look for, and more. Andrea Leitner is a masters student at Belmont University, where she is using her 5th...
SAT Test
Recruiting Horror Stories™: I Had to Schedule my SAT in another State because of COVID
By Dylan Tehada|November 16, 2021
**Recruiting Horror Stories™ are posted every Tuesday to provide athletes' first-hand experiences of what can go wrong during the recruiting process. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic instilled uncertainty and doubt...
Redshirt
Redshirt or COVID: How to Use Your Extra Year of Eligibility
By Andrea Leitner|November 12, 2021
COVID has created a new reality for many athletes who thought their athletic career was going to be cut short. This comes in the form of the “COVID Year:” an...
college recruiting
Yale Athlete Maya Meschkuleit’s 3 Tips to Keeping an Athletic Base During COVID
By Maya Meschkuleit|August 26, 2021
Edited by Jaime Evers Maya is a Canadian athlete on Yale University's rowing team. She has put in the hard work and dedication to compete at the Ivy League level...
Skidmore
Are Disparities of Recruiting During Covid-19 Affecting Athletes?
By Jordan Alcon|May 17, 2021
Imagine this. You are nearing the end of junior year with the optimistic mindset that in the coming fall, you'll soon be officially committed to attend your dream school with...
college recruiting
COVID-19 and the Mental Health Epidemic on Athletes
By Allison Goldblatt|January 21, 2021
Not surprisingly, COVID-19 and the conditions have harmed the athlete population. Student-athletes are facing a culture shock, unlike any other sub-group. Not only are their social and academic lives on...
Duke
Former Longtime Cornell Coach & Ivy League Advisor Gives Inside Scoop on Recruiting and Admissions During Covid-19
By Keirsten Sires|January 11, 2021
Dr. Arthur Smith, known as Artie by his colleagues and students, studied history and Africana Studies as an undergraduate in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University, where...
recruiting
Brown University Soccer Champion Talks about the Coaching Staff, ID Camps, and COVID-19
By 2aDays Staff|January 4, 2021
Brittany Raphino is a forward and rising sophomore on the Brown women's soccer team who captured the Ivy Championships for Brown for the first time in history. Raphino was awarded...
lacrosse
University of Virginia Lacrosse Player Transferring Advice During Covid Times
By Lauren Gilbert|November 12, 2020
College sports and college recruiting have drastically changed since the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's Sammy Mueller's story about how she is taking the opportunity to use her extra year of eligibility...