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Recruiting Horror Stories by 2aDays™| A Full Scholarship Ripped From Her Hands in a Blink of an Eye
By Emma McCarthy|February 6, 2020
A full-ride scholarship offer is supposed to be an exciting part of the stressful recruiting process. However, not when your recruiting coach offers your scholarship to another student because “you're...
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Recruiting Horror Stories by 2aDays™| My Dad Blew My Basketball Chances for Northwestern
By Keirsten Sires|January 6, 2020
James shoots hoops for DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. But before becoming a Blue Demon basketball player, there was a possibility he wouldn't have even played college basketball. And it...
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Recruiting Horror Stories by 2aDays™ | A Coach Lied About My Scholarship Offer
By Monique Felix|October 31, 2019
Recruiting was an exciting time for me. As a transfer student, I was excited to have a second chance to pick a school that was an excellent fit for me....
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Recruiting Horror Stories by 2aDays™ | The Coach Did Not Keep Her Promise
By Kendall Shaw|June 10, 2019
Before beginning this story, I want to clarify that the coaching staff involved in this situation are no longer apart of the Vanderbilt University women’s basketball staff. The names of the two women were also changed to keep them anonymous.
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Recruiting Horror Stories by 2aDays™ | My Technique Kept me off IVY Rowing
By Griffin Rubin|May 13, 2019
At the most competitive academic schools in the world, sports are not always at the forefront. However, Ivy League Rowing has established itself as the most dominant conference in men's...
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Recruiting Horror Stories™ by 2aDays | The Pressure to Voluntarily Redshirt
By Morgan Hollenback|February 20, 2019
Ten semesters of school, but four years of athletic eligibility. What does that add up to? The trend of voluntarily redshirting on competitive college teams. It is most heard of...
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Recruiting Horror Stories™ |My Dad Emailed Colleges and I Lost my Scholarship
By Leighton Yenor|December 26, 2018
Jenny, a soccer player from central Florida, had grown up with hopes and dreams of playing DI soccer- but when an injury sidelined her during peak recruitment season her sophomore...
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Recruiting Horror Stories by 2aDays™ | Did the Coach Really Just ask me That?
By Samantha Nemirov|November 28, 2018
When I started my recruiting process, I knew it was going to be an uphill battle. Standing at only 5 feet tall, on a good day, I knew that my...
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Recruiting Horror Stories by 2aDays™ | The Head Coach Left me High and Dry
By Alex Corrigan|October 10, 2018
Back in my element (three years ago), I was highly considering playing college basketball at the Division II or III levels. I was an undersized shooting guard with not the greatest handle,...
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Recruiting Horror Stories by 2aDays™ | I Signed the NLI Then They Cut my Sport
By TJ Bleichner|August 15, 2018
Hi, my name is TJ and I am the victim of a college athletics recruiting horror story. *Unenthusiastic crowd murmurs back “Hi TJ” * Let me start off by saying...
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Recruiting Horror Stories by 2aDays™ | My AAU Coach Was Controlling My Recruiting Process
By Bryana Hopkins|July 17, 2018
Two inseparable best friends had always had a similar dream, and that was to play college basketball. They would accept help from whomever they could to achieve their goal, and they trusted their AAU coach to help with college coach connections. This coach was selfish and cost both girls some potential scholarship offers.
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Recruiting Horror Stories by 2aDays™ | They Never Wanted Me in the First Place
By Jenae Alderson|July 6, 2018
The Big East is home to the most competitive Division I Men's Basketball teams in the country, including Catholic private school Villanova University, the two-time reigning champions of the NCAA tournament....
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Recruiting Horror Stories by 2aDays™ | Recruiting Visit was Full of Lies and Deceit
By Justin Dechiario|June 8, 2018
James was a fantastic ice hockey player; he elected to play a year of junior hockey before going to a small DI university. He had received interest from Ivy League schools and big...
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Recruiting Horror Stories by 2aDays™ | A Missed Opportunity
By Brianna Rodda|May 18, 2018
The process of being recruited by a college athletic program is what many high school athlete's dreams are about. Given the opportunity to play a collegiate sport is something special...
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Recruiting Horror Stories by 2aDays™ | College Coach Cuts Top Recruit
By Travis Newman|April 27, 2018
My good friend Drew was a senior captain of the soccer team at our high school in New Hampshire. While he played soccer, I played football and lacrosse, and we were always...
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Recruiting Horror Stories by 2aDays™ | Coach Said Fake the Team’s Chemistry!
By Kendall Shaw|April 19, 2018
Jessie was a phenomenal athlete and was a highly recruited 17-year-old basketball player. She attended numerous basketball showcases and schools such as Michigan, UCLA, Texas, South Carolina, Maryland, Ohio State,...