ICAATS

The NCAA Clearinghouse is critical for your college recruiting success. The correct time to sign up for the NCAA Clearinghouse is at the end of your Junior academic year.

Some of you may be asking, “What is the NCAA Clearinghouse?” Well the NCAA website provides us with a great definition:

NCAA Clearinghouse: It is a registration process that qualifies and certifies student-athletes so college coaches can be confident that the student-athlete has completed certain academic requirements for eligibility. The Clearinghouse basically acts as a stamp of approval of student-athletes for college coaches. It helps coaches qualify student-athletes for their University.

Division I and Division II coaches are sorting through hundreds, if not thousands, of players every year trying to find the best talent academically and athletically. The Clearinghouse is an easy way for a coach to know that a student-athlete has met basic academic requirements that qualify he/she to play at the collegiate level as a freshman.

Signing up for the NCAA Clearinghouse is easy. You can sign up at www.ncaaclearinghouse.net

REAL LIFE CLEARINGHOUSE STORY

A high school coach told me about one of his players that had a full-ride scholarship to a school in Northern California to play basketball. The college is a good academic school, and the student-athlete was coming from a prestigious high school. The college coach assumed the athlete was cleared by the NCAA Clearinghouse. Well, when the athlete got up to college, and the coach found out the student-athlete had not registered for the Clearinghouse, the student almost lost his scholarship…even though he was an academic qualifier.

If you want to play your freshman year, it is critical that you are registered with the Clearinghouse. There is typically a fee involved, and there are ways you can get it subsidized.

As you can see, it is very important to get yourself registered with the NCAA Clearinghouse at the end of your Junior year. Study hard and keep your grades up…that is the KEY!