Bessie Said:

Get a college athletic scholarship as a walk on?

We Answered:

For starters, you will not get a scholarship for your freshman year as a walk on, if you even make the team. It's possible you could get a scholarship for your sophmore year, but if you were that good, you wouldn't be walking on. You'd have been recruited. Work hard, train harder and show them you deserve a scholarship. But you typically only get on if you are one of the best in your event, not just at your school.

Henry Said:

I have an athletic scholarship to play in college on a full ride, I had already applied for other scholarships

We Answered:

it depend how the other scholarships will give you the money. if they give you the money, then yes. but if they send the scholarships directly to the school, normally they dont but some have exceptions.
try to find out if you are getting the money directly or if the school is getting it

Greg Said:

How do athletic scholarships work at the college level? Is there a certain dollar amount for each sport?

We Answered:

NCAA rules limit the number of hockey scholarships to 16 a year per team (all divisions). A team can offer anywhere from 0 (Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Yale, Cornell, and Dartmouth) to the full 16 (Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin).

Under NCAA rules, scholarships are permitted to pay tuition, books and room and board ONLY. No extra money for food allowances, incidentals, is permitted. Since the cost of tuition, books and room and board varies from school to school (and within schools depending on whether student is in-state, out of state, out of cuntry, etc) there is no set dollar amount.

Schools generally only add programs when there is enough money to pay for them. In your example, the major television networks pay enough money to the NCAA for football coverage to keep their endowment funds full, and a football scholarship will never be displaced by a hockey scholarship (not even at Minnesota).

Theoretically, at any one time, a Division I school can have 64 players under a hockey scholarship (252 for football, 44 for basketball, etc).

Some things to consider
- most Hockey East/ECAC schools require you to meet academic requirements prior to being offered an athletic scholarship
- Ivy League universities don't offer athletic scholarships, they do offer academic scholarships to brainy athletes (the average entering marks and SAT scores are 21% higher at Ivy League schools than other Div 1 schools for hockey....47% higher for football)
- the University of Minnesota ONLY offers hockey scholarships to Minnesota residents, and only allows try-outs to American citizens (the last Canadian to play for the University of Minnesota hockey team was in 1963 - I can't confirm this, but that is what the school claimed in some recent literature)
- competition for hockey scholarships is fierce, it is the only NCAA team sport in Division I that has an average GPA over 3.00. Over the last 15 years, the average entering GPA for hockey players (scholarship and non-scholarship) has varied between 3.28 (1996) and 3.61 (2002). Over the same time period, the highest average entering GPA in football has been 2.89 and in basketball 2.85

William Said:

Are there athletic scholarships to college for martial arts?

We Answered:

Yes, but only at a few colleges. Check out http://www.college-athletic-scholarships… and the NCAA website. Many other colleges and universities offer martial arts as a club sport, and these clubs compete against each other much like teams do.

Mario Said:

Does Lebanon valley college award athletic scholarships for track?

We Answered:

LVC is a Division III school so there are no athletic scholarships for any sport, although there may be academic aid available. Young people are under alot of pressure nowadays from their peers who tell them they are being recruited, offered scholarships, etc. to top colleges. The truth is very, very few athletes receive scholarships, especially for sports like track that do not produce revenue (basketball, football, and sometimes lacrosse or baseball generate revenue). Most Div III schools really use their athletic program as nothing more than a tool to attract more applicants to the college, especially smaller liberal arts colleges that need to balance the genders. To that end, a high school athlete will often get recruiting letters from DIII schools, but there is no guarantee of admission, or that you will make the team. LVC is a fine college, but please do not enroll with the expectation of playing a sport. If you want to attend LVC do so because its academics or student life best fit your needs. Good luck.

Vanessa Said:

How many athletic Scholarships Can someone recieve to go to a college?

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It depends upon the sports.

Football and basketball at the D-I level, the so called money sports, generally play with different rules than the rest. Lots of athletes want to play two sports: if you want to play football, your scholarship must be for football. The NCAA rules bar players with non-revenue scholarships from playing for a revenue team - probably to keep big schools from circumventing the scholarship restrictions by giving football players cross country scholarships, or whatever. The traditional powers used to give 150 scholarships in the old days - the field just wasn't level for MAC and Sun Belt schools. ( Chicago State has the reverse problem: it has such financial problems that it makes the basketball players run track and play baseball - since the NCAA requires D-I schools to field 14 different sports, they save money by making the major sports athletes double up. The Mid-Con (now Summit League) basically kicked them out because they were non-competitive. )

However, in the somewhat related, non-revenue sports, it is not uncommon for athletes to have partial scholarships in each sport. I suppose the most common example is athletes who have partial scholarships for cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track. I knew some athletes on such splinter scholarships when I was a student.

Some sports have shredded scholarships to a ridiculous level. Baseball, for example, often has kids on half, even quarter scholarships, filling out the squad. They often operate with only twelve scholarships for the whole squad. If you get a full baseball only ride, you must be a heck of a player.

The reason for this is that players will often qualify for other financial aid, which will then reduce the need for the school to provide a full athletic ride. If a relatively poor kid qualifies for a state tuition grant, and a pell grant, the school might just only give him a half scholarship to cover his room and board.

But you are not going to get more than one full ride. Cross country and track are not going to each give you a full ride. It would be an NCAA violation to give a student more than one full ride from a school.