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Smarter Sports Families
Guiding families through sports and education, from youth sports to college and beyond.
Smarter Sports Families provides families a Master Athletic and Academic Plan (a MAAP). You have lots of pieces. Only SSF shows you how they all fit together.
A must-read New York Times article containing some eye-opening data and statistics on grade inflation at the best universities.
Opinion | I Teach at an Elite College and I Inflate Grades. Help Me.
www.nytimes.com
Easy A’s are an easy out.
Caleb Lawson (Avon Old Farms; Baltimore, MD) will attend Hamilton College in the fall, where he will play for both their baseball and soccer teams.![]()
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A 6'1", 180 lb L/L OF, baseball has always been Caleb's favorite sport, and it's the reason he did a post-graduate year at Avon Old Farms. ![]()
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Most post-graduate athletes feel it necessary to play only one sport, to focus on one sport to maximize their college recruitment. Caleb chose to also play soccer, and in a great example of why playing multiple sports, even in a PG year, still matters, he found out that from a college recruitment standpoint, he's just as talented at soccer. ![]()
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Caleb's other college choices included Holy Cross and Morgan State.
More evidence in favor of maintaining a life balance while focusing on a sport. Sometimes that balance means playing multiple sports. In this case, something other than a sport still provided significant physical benefit.
The keys to Max Scherzer’s recovery: How piano helped solve a lingering thumb injury
www.nytimes.com
The first time Scherzer gripped a baseball after messing around on the piano, his thumb immediately felt better. So he kept playing.
Olivia Hart (Central Magnet School, Murfreesboro, TN) was named 1st team all-NCAC (North Coast Athletic Conference) in women's basketball this season.![]()
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A 5'11" junior forward, Olivia was 7th in the league in scoring, 4th in rebounding, 10th in field goal percentage and blocked shots, and 4th in free throw percentage. ![]()
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A second team selection last year, she was the only 1st team selection for Depauw this year. ![]()
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Depauw won the league championship for the third year in a row and went to the NCAA tournament again this season.
Pair of Tigers Earn All-NCAC Women's Basketball Honors - DePauw University
depauwtigers.com
Two DePauw women's basketball student-athletes have been selected to the all-North Coast Athletic Conference women's basketball team in voting by the league's coaches
Melvin Council (St. Bonaventure; Wagner College; Monroe College: Rochester, NY) was MVP of the Portsmouth Invitational. He's going to get his chance
KU’s Melvin Council Jr. named MVP of Portsmouth Invitational basketball tournament
www.kansascity.com
The senior from Rochester, New York fared well at the event for pro prospects in South Carolina.
