Shadow Ridge junior Aubrey Nellems sat out last Friday’s 45-6 loss to Arbor View for religious reasons.
Recruiting
Centennial senior center Darian Scott, one of the top shot blockers in Southern Nevada last season, made an oral commitment to Missouri State on Tuesday.
Centennial senior forward Jayden Eggleston made an oral commitment to Iona for women’s basketball on Sunday.
Here is a quick bit of statistical data that might come as a shock: Since the start of the 2015 prep football season, no player in Southern Nevada has more receptions than Liberty’s Darion Acohido.
Centennial senior point guard Pam Wilmore made an oral commitment to New Mexico State, continuing the Aggies’ pipeline into one of the state’s top girls basketball programs.
Centennial’s Savon Scarver entered the season projected to be one of the area’s top playmakers and hasn’t disappointed through the first two games,attracting the attention of a handful of Mountain West schools in the process.
The arms race that has become an ocean the size of the Pacific in terms of opulence and luxury and extreme indulgence when it comes to facilities used to entice the egos of 18-year-olds has no foreseeable ending. It’s a war of dollar signs waged between the nation’s largest athletic departments within Power 5 conferences.
Social media has taken on an integral role in recruiting, as college coaches find creative ways to communicate with prospects and promote their program.
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh shook up the world of college football recruiting this summer with his unprecedented 39-stop, 22-city satellite camp tour that landed at Chaparral High School in late June and included an appearance in Australia.
A look at the top gimmicks college coaches use to lure recruits.
The Big Ten and Pac-12 guarantee four-year scholarships, but NCAA rules already limit the conditions on how athletes can lose their grants-in-aid. At UNLV, every effort is made to see that athletes stay their entire four years.
Most college coaches recruit mostly through AAU, club and travel teams rather than high schools. Several factors have shut high school coaches out of the process.
The college scholarship has become the dream for many high school athletes. Rancho High softball player Gianna Carosone and her family may have the blueprint for reaching it.
Recruiting rankings have existed in various forms for decades, but exploded in popularity after Seattle-area entrepreneur James Heckman launched an internet startup called RivalsNet in 1997.
Most UNLV coaches would like to make Southern Nevada athletes a key part of their recruiting efforts, but it’s not always so easy. Many are wooed by top programs and eager to experience life elsewhere.
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