In the USA competitive sport takes place at the colleges and in the college leagues and not as we know it in organized sports clubs. In the USA the athletes from the colleges, who also receive scholarships, compete against each other in different divisions.
In the USA, sports scholarships and college matches are so important they receive TV coverage.
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The most important competition of the season is the Nationals, the Nationwide Championships of the different leagues, there are also the ‘Regional’s’ (4 – 6 states) and the ‘Conferences’ (2- 3 states). These three important events influence your scholarship season.
The advantage of a sports scholarship is basically, that the university provides all you need to help you develop your performance in your sport, starting with all your kit (training and competition), full time physiotherapist, sport facilities and finishing with professional coaches with a lot of experience.
The competing season finishes at the end of the Spring Semester in May, which enables you to take part in competitions in Germany in the summer months. A spots scholarship doesn’t mean the end of your career in Europe; in fact it helps to advance it. That’s why your home club should also support you in your wish to apply for a sports scholarship.
The American Leagues are put together as follows:
Some Hard Facts
The University of Louisville earned more than $15 million in just one season with its basketball team. These funds are used for scholarships for other sports, so that the training facilities for all sport forms are the best they can get. The profit that the football team from Ohio State has made comes to a total of $120 million and is confirmation of the high level of interest in college sport in the USA. This income has a direct influence on the amount of scholarships available. CBS pays a total of $10 billion for the TV rights for NCAA Golf, Track and Field, Swimming, Soccer, Tennis, Basketball and Football. This pays for scholarships, coaches, physiotherapists, doctors, etc.
College athletes and scholarship athletes, from the NCAA won 44 medals at the Peking Olympics in 2008.
Stanford University had 46 participants. The University of Southern California and the University of California – Berkeley each had 41 athletes in Peking. The University of Florida was represented by 19 swimmers from 15 different countries.
The University of Southern California has won medals at every Olympics since 1912 and in Peking in 2008 they won a total of 21.
If the University of Southern California was rated as a nation, they would have benn placed 8th in the medal rankings, in front of strong performers such as Kenya (14th Place) and Jamaica (11th Place).
