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Post by sunger4222 on Apr 23, 2017 9:49:42 GMT -5
It's my understanding that sand volleyball teams have a maximum of 6 full ride scholarships. I believe schools have roughly 15 players, so how does a coach typically split scholarships between the athletes? I know some players play indoor as well, so I'm not referring to them, just the beach only schools. USC has a magnificent program, and currently allows no indoor players on their beach squad. Most other schools would die for any of the Trojan recruits, so how does Anna and other coaches divide a scholarship? I am aware that USC has a player on the horizon who will play both, but that still leaves my question for the others.
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Post by whatdoikn0w on Apr 24, 2017 12:59:11 GMT -5
Indoor is a head count sport so each scholarship would be a full ride for an individual. Beach is an equivalency sport so they have what equates to the value of 6 scholarships. Those 6 scholarships can be divided up and awarded to no more than 14 athletes. It is up to the coaches to award what they feel an athletes skill/potential may be worth (10%, 15% 50% etc...) Perceived value also changes with each program (USC can get a kid to walk where as a brand new program might offer a full scholarship to the same athlete). Each school also has a different academic financial aid requirements that coaches can also factor into scholarship. For example at School A; Sally Handset has a 3.6 GPA and 29 ACT so she qualifies for $XX,XXX which "equates" to 30% of a scholarship. At school B the same GPA/ACT score gets her what "equates" to 50% scholarship. If say both schools feel she is worth 60% then it would cost School A 30% of their 6 and School B 10% of their 6. It's up to the coaches to budget their allotted 6 scholarships to up to 14 athletes on their team. Kinda like playing with your Salary cap in the NFL, lol
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Post by sunger4222 on Apr 24, 2017 14:12:38 GMT -5
Great explanation What, thanks.
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Post by johnbar on Apr 24, 2017 16:23:27 GMT -5
Indoor is a head count sport so each scholarship would be a full ride for an individual. One slight correction: for indoor, some students may still be on partial scholarships, but each student on scholarship counts as a full "one" toward the headcount limit of 12. For example, if a school can't afford to fully fund all 12, and only has money for eight scholarships, there could be four full-ride and eight half-ride students.That's still your maximum 12. You can't split the eight across 16 students.
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Post by whatdoikn0w on Apr 24, 2017 23:24:45 GMT -5
Good to know. I know nothing about non fully funded programs. I thought they were just 8 is 8, lol. Learn something new every day!
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