HHS hosts athlete recruiting seminar

    A seminar to prepare parents and athletes for the recruiting road ahead — complete with all its bumps — will be held Thursday, Jan. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at Holyoke High School auditorium. Rick Wire, President of Dynamite Sports, a Pennsylvania-based corporation and father of nine-year NFL veteran Coy Wire, will present an hour-long seminar, “Guiding the College-Bound Athlete.”
    The program provides information and topics for every student-athlete in middle and high school and their parents to educate and prepare them for opportunities and careers after graduation. In addition, it will provide families with information about the availability of athletic scholarships and the realities of the college recruiting process.
    The road to college for athletes is no longer lined with traditional mile markers. It used to be that batting averages, points per game or yards per carry paved the way for sports stars. Nowadays, one more percentage is carrying more and more weight. It’s called the grade point average.
 

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