Getting to the next level requires that you do something different.
I’m certain you’ve heard the saying, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got.”
The same is true for sports. Genetics and talent alone can take you only so far.
For some athletes, success comes quite easily in the beginning

USA TODAY High School Sports has a weekly column on the college recruiting process. Here, you’ll find practical tips and real-world advice on becoming a better recruit to maximize your opportunities and play at the college level. Joe is a former college athlete and coach at the NAIA level, where he earned an NAIA National Championship. Joe is just one of many former college and professional players, college coaches and parents who are part of the Next College Student Athlete team. Their knowledge, experience and dedication, along with NCSA’s history of digital innovation and long-standing relationship with the college coaching community, have made NCSA the largest and most successful athletic recruiting network in the country

A North Carolina high school football player has been charged with misdemeanor death by vehicle in connection with the death of a teammate who fell when riding in the back of his pickup truck.https://www.instagram.com/p/B1dRx_dpxWl/?utm_source=ig_embed
As reported by the Charlotte Observer, an undisclosed 17-year-old Mooresville (N.C

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Last season, four-star small forward Caleb Lohner helped Wasatch Academy (Mount Pleasant, Utah) get to the GEICO High School Nationals and the No. 10 spot in the Super 25.
He’ll try to achieve those same heights this season in his final year of high school basketball, but it won’t be his final year playing in the state of Utah.
Lohner committed to the Utes on Wednesday afternoon with a tweet.

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Utah has done an excellent job so far with this recruiting class, rising to No

Not many American teenagers will have a better European summer trip than Wyatt Davis. He swam once Wednesday night and came away with two medals.
The 18-year-old from Carmel High School won a bronze medal in the 100-meter backstroke in the World Junior Championships at Budapest, Hungary.
Davis later earned a gold when the United States won the 400-meter mixed medley relay, featuring two boys and two girls in all four strokes. Davis was not in the final, but because he swam the opening backstroke leg in morning prelims, he gets the same medal

Chosen 25 wide receiver Demond Demas was ruled ineligible to play his senior season of high school football at Tomball (Texas) on Tuesday, according to Nick Harris of The Old Coach.
Demas, a Texas A&M commit ranked as the No. 11 player, No. 2 WR and No. 2 player from Texas in the Chosen 25, transferred from North Forest (Houston, Texas) to Tomball in January

Choosing the right college is a big decision for any student-athlete. Where do you want to spend the next four years of your life? What do you want to study? Should you play NCAA D1 or D2? The rankings below are designed to get you started on the college search by learning about schools that you may not have thought to consider.
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An Alabama high school football player who had just started his senior season died Saturday in a motorcycle accident, according to AL.com.
Patrick Crawford, a student at Vigor High School (Prichard, Alabama), was driving when a car turned in front of him, according to FOX10-TV. Crawford ran into back of the vehicle on the passenger’s side.
Police don’t believe Crawford was speeding at the time of the accident

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Melrose High School (Memphis, Tenn.) first-year principal Taurin Hardy will enter the new school year with his boys basketball program again eligible for the TSSAA postseason.
The TSSAA’s Board of Control unanimously agreed to remove the second year of a two-year restrictive probation on Monday. The restrictive probation punishment includes a postseason ban