Scholarships for sporting merit (Athletic Scholarships) are awarded to those who demonstrate sporting skills that can help the college team achieve the goals set by the coach and his staff. Therefore, only the first coach (Head Coach) With the help of his staff (Assistant Coaches), he can decide who and to what extent will receive a scholarship for sporting merit.
Regardless of sporting merit, one student-athlete You can also get a scholarship for academic merit (academic scholarship), which can be added to the one obtained for sporting merit (in the event that the student-athlete has one), thus contributing considerably to the reduction of total expenditure. The academic scholarship is not awarded by the technical staff but by the admission’s office of the university).
To access a sports scholarship it is still necessary to be admitted to that college and therefore you must have certain academic requirements that are established by each university independently.