How To Get Your Child An Athletic Scholarship: The Parent's Ultimate Guide To Recruiting [Paperback]

Dan Spainhour (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2008

Designed specifically for parents, this guide teaches you strategies that give your child the best opportunity to become a college athlete. This easy-to-read guidebook contains valuable recruiting tips, detailed appendixes, sample letters and forms, and a Q & A section that can be used by athletes in all sports. Learn the secrets of recruiting. Written by Dan Spainhour who has more than 25 years of college and high school coaching experience. Spainhour recently returned to coaching after serving as the director of basketball operations for Florida State University. At Florida State, Spainhour was involved in all phases of the men's basketball office. He handled on-campus recruiting, recruiting mailings, fiscal matters, team travel, and academic development. As an athletic director as well as baseball and basketball coach, he has helped students earn numerous scholarships. His experience at both the high school and college level convinced him there was tremendous need for this guide.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Educational Coaching & Business Communications specializes in informational guidebooks, newsletters and special reports for business leaders, athletes, coaches, educators, and parents. Our Winston-Salem, North Carolina based company is committed to providing quality information and personalized service. Our mission is uncomplicated--to bring you the best guidance available in a concise, easy to understand format.

Our best-selling book How To Get Your Child An Athletic Scholarship: The Parent's Ultimate Guide to Recruiting has become one of the leading resources for parents of student-athletes. Our other inspirational guidebooks, A Season In Words: A Coach's Guide to Motivation from the Preseason to the Postseason and Coach Yourself: A Motivational Guide For Coaches and Leaders as well as our instructional guide How To Run A Basketball Camp: A Guide to Directing a Successful Basketball Camp are now being used by coaches at every level all across the country. And each summer we host hundreds of young men and women in our East Coast Basketball Camps.

From the Author

After 20 years in high school and college athletics, I decided to write an informational guide for parents. My primary purpose behind the guidebook was to help parents through the recruiting process and help them give their child the best opportunity to win a college scholarship. I had seen too many students miss out on potentially life changing opportunities and I felt the urge to help. I hoped to give out a few copies here and there and never really expected much more than that. However, the guide became a tremendous success and we decided to publish it for everyone.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 190 pages
• Publisher: Educational Coaching & Business Communications (May 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0615175708
• ISBN-13: 978-0615175706
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #667,159 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dan Spainhour has more than 25 years of high school and college coaching experience. He has received numerous awards during his coaching career, including three state championships and fourteen coach of the year honors. His teams have collected more than 400 victories. Spainhour recently returned to high school coaching after serving as the director of basketball operations for Florida State University. He helped led the Seminoles to the quarterfinals of the National Invitational Tournament in 2005. He also worked at the University of Miami where he worked under current Florida State coach, Leonard Hamilton. During his time at Miami he helped lead the Hurricanes to their first NCAA tournament appearance in 38 years.

He is the founder of Educational Coaching and Business Communications, a company that specializes in informational manuals for educators, parents, coaches and athletes. He is the author of many books and articles including--How To Get Your Child An Athletic Scholarship: The Parent's Ultimate Guide to Recruiting; Coach Yourself: A Motivational Guide for Coaches and Leaders; A Season in Words: A Coach's Guide to Motivation from the Preseason to the Postseason; and How to Run A Basketball Camp: A Guide to a Successful Basketball Camp. Spainhour is a recipient of the Governor's Laurel Wreath Award as an Ambassador of Athletics in the State of North Carolina.