If you're staying in state, then KEES and FAFSA are important supplements, to your financial package.

 

Most Baseball schools will give $500 or so. The prize Pitcher, Catcher of perennial "All-Star", will get sometimes 50%-85% of one scholarship. Do your research, for any college which has offered or you're considering.

 

Scholarships are also renewable, on a one year basis.

 

To add to this, I will say it is VERY rare for a baseball player at any level to get a 100% scholarship. NCAA D1 schools only have something like 13 or 14 scholarships to give for baseball, that they must divide up among the whole team

 

The "scam" that are NAIA schools is why I never really considered one of those schools even though I had 6 or 7 offers from NAIA schools to play baseball. It was WAY too expensive for me to even think about.

To add to this, I will say it is VERY rare for a baseball player at any level to get a 100% scholarship. NCAA D1 schools only have something like 13 or 14 scholarships to give for baseball, that they must divide up among the whole team

 

The "scam" that are NAIA schools is why I never really considered one of those schools even though I had 6 or 7 offers from NAIA schools to play baseball. It was WAY too expensive for me to even think about.

DI Baseball has 11.7 scholarships.

Wow, less than I thought. I knew it was point something, but really just couldnt remember. Thanks. :thumb:

Wow, less than I thought. I knew it was point something, but really just couldn't remember. Thanks. :thumb:

....:thumb: Puts in even more perspective.

I thought that Morehead went NCAA D-III, which does not have athletic schorarships.

Yet they offer scholarships in most if not all other sports.

 

I meant to say MSU went NCAA D-III in football

Morehead offers scholarships for all sports except football.

 

Yes, that is correct. The football team plays in the D-I AA Patriot League. It is a non scholarship league.

Division III schools, such as Transy, do not give athletic scholarships. Their tuition, including room and board are $30,000. They do give wonderful academic scholarships, but a certain GPA must be maintained in order to keep those scholarships year to year. Occasionally, the student athlete will get an endowment of a few thousand dollars. While mine received offers to play both softball and basketball, once they dedicated time to their studies, there wasn't a lot of time left for sports. They both chose to forego sports for their freshmen year, and are now considering walking on for their sophomore years. They needed time to adjust to college life, to learn time-management skills, and to squeeze in 25+ hours of practice a week, not including travel time. They both have work-studies and work 10 hours per week for spending money. When they were making the decision to forego sports for their freshmen year, it simply came down to money. If they didn't maintain the GPA requirement to keep their academic scholarships, we didn't have to worry about sports because there would be no Transy at all. We certainly didn't have another 10G's each to cover the added costs if they lost their academic scholarships. We are more than satisfied with the school and the girls love attending there. I told them life is about choices and sometimes the choice is a very difficult one. They both love sporst so much. I was proud of their decision, but it took many phone conversations and many, many tears to make this decision. Welcome to LIFE 101...

 

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Comin out of high school:

 

Basketball "scholarships" to Alice Loyd, Pikeville, Union.

Full academic scholarship to EKU.

 

Why pay an extra 4 or 5K a year, to have all my free time consumed, go to a school smaller than I'd like, all for a sport with little to no chance of me moving on further past college? My username tells ya what I decided to do.

DI Baseball has 11.7 scholarships.

 

Why are they so limited I never understood that. Basketball gets 13 and they dont have as many players.

Comin out of high school:

 

Basketball "scholarships" to Alice Loyd, Pikeville, Union.

Full academic scholarship to EKU.

 

Why pay an extra 4 or 5K a year, to have all my free time consumed, go to a school smaller than I'd like, all for a sport with little to no chance of me moving on further past college? My username tells ya what I decided to do.

 

I would guess that even without your academic scholarship, EKU would have been the better financial choice.

 

For some athletes the NAIA route may be the way to go and an opportunity to continue playing sports is nothing to be taken lightly. However, parents should be aware that getting recruited does not necessary translate into free or even greatly reduced tuition.

 

What I wanted to accomplish with this thread is to get parents and athletes to lighten up somewhat. Enjoy the middleschool and high school sports experience, play every sport you wish, and take the emphasis and pressure off "playing for scholarship money".

My daughter recieved a full ride to Pikeville. After the academic numbers and kees were added the coach maid up the difference. Room tuition meals and books were all paid. I know there are a lot of partials but some do get full scholarship.

My daughter recieved a full ride to Pikeville. After the academic numbers and kees were added the coach maid up the difference. Room tuition meals and books were all paid. I know there are a lot of partials but some do get full scholarship.

 

That's great and a good example of how the system works. However, it is only a partial athletic scholarship, not a full ride. Congratulations, that's a lot of money saved.