How To!: Raise a Future College Athlete

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

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🗓️ 4 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On this bonus episode from our friends at Slate's How To! podcast: Elizabeth’s son Lucas is a talented athlete who wants to compete in track and field at an NCAA Division One school. But so far he’s been running away from doing any research or planning. His mother, Elizabeth, wants to help him be recruited and maybe even get a scholarship. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Steve Magness, performance expert, former track coach for the University of Houston, and author of Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness. He’s navigated both sides of the recruitment process and has some hard-earned wisdom about what it takes to be noticed by college recruiters and why the system itself needs to be reformed. If you liked this episode, check out “How To Coach Squirrelly Kids (and Screaming Parents).” Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spark your creativity with the Sims.
0:04.0	Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative
0:07.0	and you have to go in search of your creative spark again.
0:10.0	Maybe this is catching up with creative friends,
0:13.0	experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe
0:16.0	and thanks to the Sims.
0:17.0	Inspiration is just one game and one spark away.
0:21.0	Ready to spark something?
0:23.0	Download the Sims 4 and play for free.
0:27.0	Hi, Mom and Dad listeners.
0:29.0	It's Elizabeth.
0:30.0	We wanted to bring you another weekend bonus episode
0:33.0	that we thought would be interesting and relevant,
0:35.0	especially to you parents with older kids and sports.
0:38.0	The show is all about navigating the college athletic scene,
0:42.0	including how to get recruited, how likely your kid is to get a scholarship,
0:45.0	and even how to tell if a program is a good fit.
0:48.0	I'm going to hand the mic over to host Amanda Ripley,
0:51.0	but I hope you'll enjoy and I'll see you back here on Monday
0:54.0	for a regular episode of Mom and Dad are fighting.
0:57.0	What is keeping you up at night about this?
1:00.0	Oh my goodness, just that I'm going to miss something.
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