Go Get That Scholarship!: A Guide to College Basketball Recruiting for High School Players, Parents and Sports Fans

by Nate Mast, Shawn Donnelly

Overview

Written by the director of basketball operations at Southern Illinois University (who also played at Illinois and assisted at Kansas), GO GET THAT SCHOLARSHIP! helps high school basketball players and their parents navigate the often stressful and confusing process of securing a college basketball scholarship. Filled with interesting anecdotes, indispensible lists ("The Six Things You Have to Ask a Coach"), tips on everything from highlight videos to walk-on tryouts -- even a college basketball preparation checklist -- this honest, revealing and downright funny book tells high school players, their parents and general college basketball fans what college basketball recruiting is REALLY like.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781478398431
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	10/05/2012
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	661,124
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.10(d)
Age Range:	15 - 17 Years

About the Author

NATE MAST is a former walk-on at the University of Illinois and the current Director of Basketball Operations at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. Previously, Mast was head men's basketball coach at Parkland College, an assistant coach at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith and a basketball grad assistant at the University of Kansas. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois and a master's in architecture from the University of Kansas. SHAWN DONNELLY is a writer and editor in Brooklyn, New York. He has written for Esquire.com, Maxim, Men's Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, MadeMan.com and ESPN Rise. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Editorial Reviews

The director of basketball operations for Southern Illinois University offers young players (and their parents) a step-by-step guide to developing the skills and good habits necessary to obtain a college hoops scholarship. Mast has an authoritative tone that comes naturally from his years of experience. Chapters like "What Coaches Want" offer an insider's look at how coaches think and the criteria they use to evaluate players. The author includes comprehensive checklists and skill benchmarks for all age levels, strength-training and nutritional advice, tips on how to handle interest from coaches, how to become an attractive walk-on, and even a how-to guide for self-marketing and creating a personal highlight tape to send out to colleges. Mast uses an informal, conversational style that's relaxed and easy to read ("Did I just make a ‘Larry the Cable Guy' reference? I apologize…"), and he understands how bewildering and, at times, intimidating the whole process can be for a high school kid and his parents. So he breaks things down here in the simplest, easy-to-understand terms for his target audience. There's no substitute for being good enough, fast enough, or big enough, and Mast is fairly candid about that. But there are simply so many adjustments any player can make to improve his or her game and become more attractive to college hoops programs--some of them sweeping changes and others deceptively minor--that any potential National Collegiate Athletic Association recruit will gain something from a close reading. A must-read for anyone who is serious (or whose child is serious) about playing college hoops, and it doubles as an interesting take on the recruitment process for fans of the college game.

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