Comments about ‘About 600 high school athletes earn scholarships this year’

Would be interesting to find out which high schools had the most athletic scholarships. Can that be done?

Common misconception James.

A "Full Ride", as you call it, isn't.

It is Room, Board, Tuition, and Books, ONLY, while school is in session.

There is a difference of a minimum of a couple thousand dollars a year between what some athletes (sports) recieve, and what the best academic scholarships pay with their "full cost of attendance", (which can even include spending money).

That shortfall for out of pocket items includes things like mandatory health care insurance, student fees, classroom supplies, utilities, parking, etc.

Several entries have boys receiving scholarships from BYU soccer. Unless it was meant as BYU-Hawaii, BYU-Provo men's soccer is not part of the athletic dept. and does not offer athletic scholarships.

An interesting stat would be to see how much money was spent by NON-scholarship receiving seniors and/or parents on recruiting services, camps, clinincs, showcases, super leagues etc? This goes to show that talent will still get a kid a scholarship not the antics of over bearing parents and SOME recruiting services. How refreshing! Good luck at the next level seniors.

The wrestling talent in this is state is great. It is too bad Title IX gutted the opportunities for many wrestlers to chase their dreams at the next level and within our state since there is just one program that has a program.

This last year we had homegrown All-Americans in Andrew Hochstrasser and Jason Chamberlain wrestling at Boise State and of course legendary wrestler Cael Sanderson leading Penn State to the national title. It's too bad there isn't more opportunities for our great wrestlers overall and certainly in our state.

eagle title IX had little to do with the cutting of wrestling programs.BYU is a private school and can do whatever it wants. All the Iowa, Oklahoma, Pennsilvania, Ohio, Michigan, schools along with numerous others have wrestling. What happened to their title IX issues?. There are more schools with wrestling programs than there are with volleyball, waterpolo, gymnastics, skiing, all NCAA sanctioned sports. If a school wants to keep wrestling they can. Do you really think Boise is any different than Utah or BYU, they have it because they want to have it. UVU has it because it wants to..It just so happens most schools in the far west have chosen not to. Title IX is the scapegoat used by most athletic direcotrs that didn't have the will to keep the sport.

You need to go search on google for NCAA scholarship limits and you will see that for example a university has only 11.7 scholarships to give for baseball or softball. There is 30 kids on a team. After doing the math there is no full ride athletes only partial scholarships. SCLGuy there is additional things like cloths, shoes and some include insurance. Board includes utilities. You also get priority registration, summer school, 5th year free, tutors, use of computers and many other things. An academic scholarship paying tuition is thousands a semester less than a full ride. D3 schools give no scholarships and D2 give less. Just because a school can give x-amount of scholarships doesn't mean they have that many funded.

I can't believe that after Pine View signs 10+ players D1 every year that there are enough scholarships to go around!