Youtube is the second largest search engine in the world. In 2007, Google purchased the video-sharing giant for around 1.3 billion euros. Paying such a hefty sum may have seemed ill-advised at the time, but it has paid off for Google, who correctly anticipated how important video would become in...
Mixed feelings: Oracle Tennis Awards and Amstrong State University
Mixed Feelings There is a stark contrast between the two pieces of news we are going to share in this new entry of the VT Sports blog. Both will affect college tennis in the near future, though. On the one hand, two rising players are set to receive each year...
March Madness: Picks by our team
March Madness NCAA Over the next three weekends, college basketball will surely dominate the TV ratings in the United States. The NCAA Division I tournament, also known as March Madness, is a can’t-miss appointment for any sports fan. The mayhem reaches its highest exposure during the first weekend, when basketball...
Women´s Day: MEET 5 OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN U.S. COLLEGE SPORTS
Special Post: Women day, Sportswomen Today it’s International Women’s Day and here at VT Sports we want to join this celebration by writing about five women who have left a profound imprint in the history of women’s collegiate sports in the United States. One coach, four athletes, four different sports....
MATCHES ARE ALSO WON IN THE CLASSROOM AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
In order to be admitted into an American university, a prospective student-athlete must boast a solid high school record, as well as having successfully clear the minimum threshold set by the university for tests such as the SAT, ACT or TOEFL. If our goal is to receive academic scholarship to...
Title IX, the law that guarantees equal treatment at American universities
In this business, you often hear that it is easier for girls to obtain an athletic scholarship in the United States. In this article we’re going to dismiss such theory or, at least, explain why it is so widespread. Forty five years ago, the Title IX of the Education Amendment...
Athletic Scholarships in the United States: “College sports present certain regulation tweaks”.
It is no secret that international student-athletes need an adaptation period after landing in the United States to begin their college career. It takes time to adjust to the language, to combining a demanding training regime with university-level courses or to drastically modifying lunch and dinner times. Not only that,...
Athletic Scholarships in the United States: Meal Money, a mandatory expense for the University and a privilege for Student-Athletes
Whenever we sign our athletic scholarship with an American university, the number of dollars that shows up on the National Letter of Intent does not reflect the full amount of money a sports coach is investing in our skills. There are other underlying expenses each coach has to thoroughly monitor...
A Superbowl with university flavour
As an exception, none of our athletes on scholarship in the United States will enjoy a starring role in this week’s blog entry. Hopefully they do not get overly jealous but, you know, it’s Super Bowl week. On Sunday, the Atlanta Falcons and the New England Patriots will square off...