Spreading out the team's scholarships?

[tennismom42]

Originally Posted by Coach Carter

normally if someone says they are getting 30%...that's 30% of tuition (for tennis). that's why grades are important, because the coach will try and get something that route too. the FAFSA is important because they'll try to get you qualified for something there too. it was correct in another post that gave the example of $40,000 per year for tuition means $180,000 (if the team is fully funded...we again need to focus on that). the coach has $180K to spend...however he feels it wisest to spend. foreigners are expensive!

Would you be able to estimate how many "full-ride" scholarships are offered to freshmen each year in D1? Full ride, I guess, means 100% tuition paid, unless you want to define "full ride" in some other way? My kid got 51% off tuition, but the school has 4 kids graduating my son's junior year. My hope is that he may be full-ride the last two years. Am I fooling myself again?

[10isDad]

Originally Posted by tennismom42

Would you be able to estimate how many "full-ride" scholarships are offered to freshmen each year in D1?

I doubt there are any gathered statistics on that, at least not available to the public. I've searched around the NCAA website and looked through many of their available documents and never seen anything.

I would guess that full-ride tennis scholarships are definitely in the minority and that the majority of those full-ride tennis scholarships are going to top foreign players and/or those cream of the crop USTA players - and sometimes not always them.

There's a gentleman who was an all-american at Stanford a few years back. He was a top-ranked junior. He played #1 for the team in at least 2 years, won a couple of fall season major events, won the US Open Jr. Doubles, was ranked #1 in the country in NCAA, etc. The story goes he got virtually nothing in the way of athletic scholarships.