In a recent T-D Ameritrade survey, 47% of student athletes said they now believe the cancellation of sports during the pandemic could put their college scholarship at risk. That was my moment to have colleges watch me and it s canceled, said Devin Schoenberger, a soccer player at Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, Calif. We don t know what other opportunities we re going to have and a lot of us aren t committed yet.
More than 180,000 students rely on sports scholarships to help finance their education every year, but the NCAA has implemented a recruiting dead period until April 2021; this means college coaches can t have face-to-face contact with college-bound student-athletes or their parents, and may not watch student-athletes compete or visit their high schools.