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You may have aspirations of playing football for Alabama or Basketball for Kentucky, but only a select few high school athletes have the skills to play for programs of that caliber. You might not be able to play at a high level D1 program (or even a highly skilled D2 or DS3 team), and you might not qualify for athletic scholarship money, but if you have the skills to play in college and apply yourself in the athletic recruiting process, there is a place for you to play! Sports like baseball with 11.7 D1 scholarships or Lacrosse with 12.6 athletic scholarships divide their athletic scholarship money between many recruits, and that is if the program is even fully funded which many are not. When you subtract the colleges you know from watching football or basketball on TV and the colleges you know near where you live, there are another 900+ colleges you have never heard of that all potentially offer an opportunity to play college sports.

Certification Account: You need to be certified by the NCAA Eligibility Center to compete at an NCAA Division I or II school. If I am going to play D3 athletics, which doesn’t use the NCAA Eligibility Center for eligibility decisions or possibly not get recruited at all by any NCAA coaches at the D1 or D2 level, why do I need to pay the NCAA the $80 fee to register (or $135 for International athletes). The NCAA will allow you to create a profile page for free and then transition that page to a paid Certification Account once you get further along in the process and are actively getting recruited by D1 and D2 coaches who will need access to your eligibility status. If you are registering for recruitment at NCAA D1 or NCAA D1 schools, you eventually need to provide the NCAA Eligibility Center with your SAT/ACT scores.