High School Athletes Who Want to Play in College Must Learn This Lesson
All high school athletes who get the opportunity to play in college are elite high school athletes. However, all college athletes are not elite college athletes. In other words, what it takes to get the opportunity to play sports in college is not the same as what it takes to seize that opportunity.
To be an elite high school athlete you need elite coaching paired with elite skills. On the other hand, to be an elite college athlete you need elite self-motivation paired with elite skills. Yes, I simply swapped out coaching with self-motivation. This is not to say coaching doesn’t matter in college. Of course it matters. However, it matters far less than self-motivation matters.
In high school, coaches are willing to push an athlete to greatness if they see it in them. In college, a coach won’t even try to push an athlete. They will just find another athlete who wants it more. It’s really that simple.
Therefore, if an athlete wants to play sports in college, they must develop the self-motivation to push their self before they get to college. This is the lesson they must learn. It doesn’t matter how much talent, skill, or accomplishments an athlete has coming out of high school. Every athlete who plays in college has this.
Simply stated, if an athlete walks onto a college campus waiting for their college coach to tell them when to practice, where to practice, and how to practice they will fail.